Mr. SCHENCK. I beg pardon again. I, Ii‘ei" haps some gentleman here lives in a village where now and then a man may be picked up by a recruiting officer. Now, if a recruiting officer he sent there he draws commutation for forage, commutation for fuel, commutation for quarters as though he were in Washington city, with this difference that in villages they cut the rent or room own to 9 dollars, whereas in this city it is put up to 18 dollars a month, and in NewYork to 12 dollars. 9 dollars a month will get a good room in avilla e. This 9 dollars a room is to be multiplie by two, 3, or four, according to the number of rooms to which the officer, by reason of his rank, may be entitled. These gentlemen are trying to raise an issue between this bill and the committee who reported it, and which I trust the House is going to sustain, and the gentlemen stationed ere at Washington. It applies no more to gentlemen stationed at Washington than any where else. All over the country, wherever a man is stationed away from active duty with troops in the field or elsewhere, in garrison at a fort where fuel and quarters are irovided, he gets his commutation for fuel and uarters whether he happens to be in the humb est vil lage or the largest and most expensive city. My friendfrom NewYork [Mr. DAVIS] told me of a grievous case. It is the case ofageu tleman who served in Missouri. It illustrates how men who sell themselves to be the slaves of the Government as officers in the Army are liable to be ordered around. This gentleman, serving with troopsin Missouri, was suddenly, and Without a p ication on his own part, ordered to Wasington city. It was hard to live here, and he could not sustain his family. Where had he been? In Missouri. Where was his family? Clifton, a village in Iowa. While serving with troops he was content to let his little responsibilities and their mother stay at home in Clifton, Iowa. It was undoubt' edly a hardship to sever those family ties by taking him away from all the endearments of home to the companionship of rude, rough men in the field, no longer to have his prattlin children about his knee. But he stood it. When, however, he came to washington he must needs have Mrs. Officer and the little Officers with him. It was very hard for him to live without them, I dare say. He could not expect to indul e in luxuries without paying for them. If he had left his family at Clifton, Iowa, however, and had come on here,he would have drawn, under the present system, his pay and commutation, with which he could have supported them in luxury, if they were only supported in comfort before in Iowa. And under the provisions of this bill he would get just as time as he got when he was serving in the field, for we make no difference against him, although we are unwilling to make any for him.