Mr. WILSON.Imove to amend the bill by striking out in the 6th and 7th lines of the 1st section, after the word “same, ” the words “or which may have been taken by such officer without giving such receipt;” so that it will read: That all claims of loyal persons. not exceeding). for quartermuster'sstoresactually furnishedto the Army of the UU.S and receiptedfor by the proper officer receiving the same.may be submitted to the QuarterMGen, Arc. I believe it was the common practice during the war for officers of the U.S. seizing individual property to give a receipt for that property, Wien the officer seizing it. believed that, the individual owning it was loyal to the U.S., or well disposed to the U.S., and I take it there was very little property taken during the war from persons who he any pretense to be loyal men that was not receipts for by the officer taking that property. If we are to pay for that property for which a receipt was given. we shall know something as to where we are; but if we are to allow the provision to stand thatI have moved to strike out, that any person who had property taken, or had not, who can trump up a case may go before the QuarterMGen or Commissary General and prove that he had 'prop erty taken, I think we, shall throw open the Treasury to claims of millions upon millions of dollars all depending upon the oaths of men whose oaths we know never were worth anything whatever, and have been pi oved so, and are proved so today. Why, sir, a year ago all t rough the country from the Potomac to the Rio rande, everybody was professing to have done but very little du ng tie war; they were very good friends of tie U.S.; they were forced into doing what little they did; there was a power somewhere that, contrary to their wills, put them into the war. That was the common talk. Today, from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, there is boastin of. what has been done. Everywhere they the fius how much they did, not how little they did; that they went into the rebellion voluntarily; and if we are to believe what we are told now, there was hardly a loyal man during the war in the rebel States, and in many of these States not any. Perhaps if we pass this bill we shall have anothorpretense ofloyalty, and 1000s of men who were enemies of the country during the war will trump up evidence and come upon the Treasury of the country, and profess that they were quite loyal during the war, because the Treasury will be open to the oaths that they will presentrto us. Now, sir, if this amendment shall be adopted I am willing that the bill shall pass to allow men who hold the receipts of this Government to have their cases examined. Many of those men.were not loyal. Our officers were very kindl dissed toward the people of the South. Ever bodiiiruows the social influence that was exerted upon them during the war. Everybody knows how many of.those officers were persuaded to say things and do things and sign papers that they ought never to have done. But, sir, let as provide that the persons who hold certificates sass Inn oogosnglgmt owns. Juiy 5, fiir property taken may come farmed and prove their cases, and let us wait nwhile litany rate before we Open the reasury of the U.S. to the innumerable claims that will be made, for I take itthut every man that has lost. a horse or an on or a bushel of corn or anything else during the war by our armies or by the relic l armies will try to find his way to the Treasury of the U.S. to get pay. The rebel treasury is one; they ate/not go there for it; and we sh 1 not only have to pay millions of dollars for whutourown armies took, but for what was taken by the rebel armies, if we are to allow those who have not the certificates of an Army officer that they had their profit Ly taken at.all to make upwes. I take it t re is no difficulty in making up a case. We all know the oaths that have been violated during this war. We know the Oaths that have been taken since the surrender of Lee’s army. Wenll know that oaths have come to be of very little uccount when they are in any may directly 0r indirectly connected with this rebellion, so far as any persons that have opposed the governmentare concerned. I hope, sir, that this amendment will be adopted, that we shall deal with the loyal ople who have certificates from officers of the U.S.s that their property was taken for the use of our onnies, and that persons who have no such certificates will, at uny rate, not be provided for at. the present time.