Mr. NYE. On this bill being taken up the other day I gave a summary of the facts of the case. after a most careful examination by the ComNavAffrs, I was instructed to report a bill for his relief. I find that there are objections to it of different characters. Among the objections was one from the Senfrom Massachusetts, who declared that he would not vote for the bill, even though it was right, for fear of the precedent it would establigh. I hardly understand the logic of the argument, for it seems to me to place the Senator in the attitude of doing injustice to other l and to himself, and also of impeaching the intelligence of this body. I trust that there is sufficient intelligence here to scrutinize care fully and determine between what is just and what is unjust, and to act upon this question as upon all others and do what is exactly just and right. This is an old servant of the public in the Naval Dept. He has rown gray in the service. Having been place on the most distant, n the most difficult and most dangerous position that the service to which he is attached requires, he has lived in and breathed the may, lane. of the Isthmus until a broken constitution and a diseased body ive evidence to his fidelity in all respects is record in the Navy Dept stands among the 1st of its faithful officers. He wasintrusted with that money at that important point; he used exactly all the means that the government gave him for the purpose of its safe keeping; and the evidence s ows, and this report shows, that he exercised to an extraordinary degree that dili gence which was due to the position he held. The Senfrom Indiana, for whose opinions I have the highest regard and respect, asserts that when money is put into the hands of a pay master and receited for by him, the money becomes his own. Ghith great diflidence I beg to differ from that conclusion, and I can state many reasons why it is not so. If I had time I could state man facts goin to prove that that has not been e opinion of the Government to whom the money belongs. In the city of StLouis npaymaster gambled and lost the Government money. The Government ur sued it and took it from the gambler. by? Because it was the Governments money. An unfaithful servant had diverted itfrom its proper channel, and the Government pursued it e cause it was their own. I do not believe that this Government would consent for a moment to the doctrine laid down by the Senfrom Indiana, because it would lead to great fraud. What are the bonds of a paymaster? One or 200,000 dollars; and how often have paymasters started from here with as many millions as their bonds were for 1,000s; but ct it did not become the paymasters money; it is the Governments money until it reaches its destination. The doctrine can never be sustained for a moment that the Government parts with its title to the public money when one of its servants takes it to be disbursed. Again, sir, there are peculiar laws and peculiar penalties to which the recipients of public money are liable, which would not be the case if the money became their own. I entertain no doubt about the justice of this bill. My advo cacy of it rests upon its justice, after full and mature examination, 2nded by as careful a set of gentlemen as are to be found in this circle. It rests, too, on a principle quite as important to the person to whom it is applied. It will be a poor encouragement for public officers, especially in the naval service, if an application of this kind is to be rejected on the ground that it may become a dangerous recedent. Sir, if this officer has been faithfu in the discharge of his duty, every principle of economy on the part of this Government requires that he and is securities should be released from the payment of the money.If you deal justly with these men, instead of encouraging them in carelessness, it is the highest encouragment to grompt them to a faithful discharge of thei. but y friendfrom Indiana suggested that the recedent had already been established that where moneyis burned upon steamers, and it isa matter of public record, the paymaster has been absolved. If we are to look on the suspicious side of everything, how much more apt would a fraudulent paymaster be to become a parti ceps criminis in the burning of a steamer after having rifled the chests, so as to bury all the evidences of his complicity? I say that if in that case the GOvernment excuses these officers, and releases them and their securities, a stronger reason exists here. I repeat, this man used all the means for the gotection of the money that the Government rnished him. So careful was he, the report shows, that he always kept the kefiof the safe around his neck. he Senfrom Oregon suggested that from the fact that he let a bundle of eys go into another room in the hands of an officer furnished by the Government as a guard, not of his choiceanother Government officer whose fidelity he had no right to suspect because he allowed him to take the key to go into another room, where the boy acknowledges that he took an impression of the key, that was such carelessness as forbids our entertaining the idea of releasing this man from responsibility for the money that was fcloniously taken from him. It was a room into which he could not go for the best reason in the world; he is paralyzed. Not withstanding that misfortune, the Government find him so faithful that they keep him in their employ, even when by the rules of the service he could be mustered out. I ask that Senators shall do an act of entire justice in this matter, and I press the bill, not for the reason of setting a precedent whereb others may come in with fraudulent claims. will pledge myself to the Senfrom Massachusetts to be as vigilant in ferreting out fraudulent claims as he could desire, so far as I am concerned, but I ask of him and every other Senator, upon the broadest principle of common justice, if a claim is here made that is right, that the Senate shall adopt it. I trust that this bill will ass. That the larceny was committed there can e no doubt, for almost half the mono has been recovered by the vigilance of this o ccr. 1,000 dollars reward he offered himself and the Government 5,000d; and the whole body of naval Officers on that coast come up here to testify to the entire integrity and honest of this man. In his diseased condition, his suffering both in body and mind, I ask that the Senate shall do this act of justice to ward him. the bill was reported to the Senate without amendment, orderengross for a 3rd reading, read the 3rd time, and passed. BONDED WAREHOUSES.