Mr. SCHENCK. Mr. Speaker, I will assi as briefly as I can my reasons for moving the reconsideration of that amendment. It was an amendment which was adopted to come in the 11thline of the thi section, after the word “ eligible, ” so as to makc the section read: That graduates of the U.S. Military Academy shall be eligible. without having served al volunteers.to appointment as2ndlieutenants. I am more than ever satisfied that the bill as originally reported was very much nearer right than it will be with any such amendment. That amendment, if it have any effect at all, at least does not carry out the intention of the section in that clause, nor avoid the evil intended to be guarded against. As provided now by the section, 2/3rds of the officers above the grade of 1st lieutenant are to be selected from the volunteers, and all the subulterns. that is, the 1st and 2nd lieutenants, from the volunteers. The proviso was put in to save the graduates of WestPoint, the object being to enable the young men who have been educated there to come in, notwithstanding this 3rd section allows only volunteers in these subor dinate appointments. Without that provision the wilFlie excluded. ow, if we put in these words, if graduates may come in without having served as volunteers, it can only have some such effect as this: none of the gra uates who are yet to come from WestPoint have served either in the volunteers or the regular Army, and it must be intended to cover graduates who have been sent out from that Academy in former years. Nowhevery graduate of WestPoint living during this war either served in the volunteers, or in the regular Army, or did not serve at all. If he has served in the volunteers he is provided fox u. 1973 volunteer officer. If he served in the renlar Army he does not want a.place as 2nd ieu tenant, because he has a place already. If he did not serve at all he has no business in any Army of the U.S. If any man having the advantage of a military education such as that given at WestPoint could go through this war indifferent, not seeking employment on the part of the country, he ought not to be permitted to come into the Army after the war l8 over. That is my doctrine, sir, and I would enforce it.