Mr. SCHENCK. I would prefer that my colleague should make that motion, and I will leave it to the sense of the House. I believe I need not add anything in further support of the view which I take of the necessity of some such legislation as this. Every one can see that if Congress had met on the 4th day of March, 1865, in all human probability, considering the then temper of the POTUS, we should have been saved from that disagreement between himself and Congress which has led to our present difficulties. I venture to give it as my opinion, that if this Congress had been convened on the 4th of March, 1865, every State that had been in rebellion, accepting gladly the same terms which we offer them now, or terms very much missively obedient to the requirements made of them, and would now be represented upon this floor. Nay, if one were pool. to speculate upon the possibilities of the past, it is not at all certain but the then VEEP, considering the exhibition made by him upon the 4th of March, would have been so dealt with by Congress, after its assembling, that we would not have been troubled with any consideration of the questions now before us. Passing from the 1st section, it will be seen that the 2nd section is simply a provision to prevent constructive mileage. It amends the law in regard to mileage, or rather adapts this oinew condition of things to the law as it exists, so that mileage shall not be charged for going home and returning on the 4th of March, in the cases of those who are reelected to this House, or who being Senators hold over as members of the succeeding congress, and who, sitting in their places, make no other transit than from one Congress to another. I think nobody will except to that. With these remarks, not supposing that a protracted debate will be necessary, and yet not desiring to call the previous question, so as to prevent the offering of amendments, I will now yield to such amendments as my colleague [Mr. BINGHAM] and others may desire to offer.