Mr. ALLISON. I wish to call up the mtRtv House bill No. 18, for the relief of the 37th regiment Iowa volunteer infantry, reported adversely by the ComMilAffrs, was laid upon the table. Mr. Speaker, this bill proposes to pay the 37th regiment otPIowa volunteers the same bounty that has been paid to the other soldiers serving in the U.S. Army. It is an exceptional case, being a regiment of men enlisted in the Army over 45 years of age. The Governor of the State of Iowa offered this regiment to the Secretary of “fin on the 25th of August, 1862, and it was accepted. By an order of that date it was mustered into the service of the U.S. in December, 1862, and continued in the service until the end of the rebellion. After it was mustered into the service aportion of the rewiment received bounty, but afterward, by tie ruling of the SecyWar, bounty was refused to the members of the regiment and at its muster out those who had received the bounty were compelled to refund it. The ComMilAffrs have made an adverse report upon this claim upon the ground that there was no law authorizing bounty to be paid to this regiment, which perhaps is true. Yet I think a liberal construction of the bounty law would give bounty to that regiment as well as to other soldiers mustered into the U.S. service. But, however that may be, this, l believe, is the only regiment that was mustered into the service for 3 years that has not received the $100 bounty granted to the soldiers of the U.S. Now, I appeal to the members of this House rant to this regiment of men who enlisted e of the U.S. in the dark 0 history of this country, in 1862, (billto continued to perform faithful service up to the close of the rebellion, the same bounty that has been given to other soldiers of the U.S. They continued in the service, discharging the duties that would necessarily have been discharged by other soldiers if these had not enlisted. I think they are, from the nature of their services and the time in the service, entitled to the bounty proposed by this bill. They served from the 13th of December, 1862, The payment I till May, 1865, a period of 2 years and 5 months. Mr. WILSON, of Iowa. Will my colleague yie?