Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-04-21

not been so understood by the Committee
therefore he had Dads the explanation
The question was then taken on the pas
sage of the bill, and resulted as follows
Yeas lO6, nays 30. Bill passed.
Mr.. DELAN0, from the Committee OF
Claims, reported joint resolution author
izing the remission to JnO. Wells & Sons, o
Baltimore, Nd, of 80 much of the PENALTY
| incurred by them by reason of their failurl
to comply with their contract Of the 4th o
Oct, 1868, for repairing the steamer City o
Albany as may be covered by the sctua
loss OF the government by reason of the de
lay in completing the repairs of such
steamer.
Mr.. DELANO explained the circum-
stances of the joint resolution. Read three
times and passed.
Mr.. DELANO, from the same Committee
reported back the Senate bill authorizing the
/ Secretary of the Treasury to issue to Theo-
dore G. oswald, of Providence, Rhode Is
land, two one thousand dollar 7-3O bonds in
lieu of two one thousand dollar 7-30 bonds
numbered 104, ,l52 and 104, ,153, partially de-
stroyed by fire, and the charred remnants
of which are deposited in the Treasury.
Mr.. WASHBURNE, of Illinois, offered a
resolution, which was adopted, directing the
Secretary Of War to communicate to the
House the report of the Mixed Board OF
Engineers and Naval officers, of which
Commander Latimer was President, and
Majors Chase, Barnard and Beauregard
were members in 1851 and 1852, and the
report of Major Beauregard in 1852 or 1858
relative to the success ofthe operations of tho
Law Company in deepening the Southwest
passage by contract.
The House then, on motion of Mr..
STEPHENS, went into a Committee on the
Whole, with Mr.. Smith in the Chair, to
consider the bill reported on yesterday,
appropriating $4,000 for paper and $780, 900
for binding. The Committee then rose and
reported the bill to the House, which passed
it.
The House then proceeded to the consid-
GRAFTON of the bill to reorganize and estab-
lish the army of the United States. The
pending question being on Mr.. Thayer's
amendment to the 10th section, relative to
the Adjutsnt Generals Department.
Mr.. SCHENCK moved to amend the sec
ton by adding to it the following proviso :.
Provided that nothing in this section shall
be construed so as to vacate the commission
of any officer now commissioned as Assistant
Adjutant- General; but only to change the
title to Adjutant in the case of those who
rank as Lieutenant Colonel or Major, with
OUT affecting in any way the relative posi-
tions or time from which they took such
rank.
Mr.. BLAINE spoke against the PROPOSE
ton of the Military Committee to change
the nomenclature of Assistant Adjutant-
General to Adjutant, arguing that there was
good reason for the distinction that had
grown up. He defended the officers of the
A djutant-General's Department who had
remained in Washington during the war,
hot e ho1 id
again and again to be sent to active service,
and been refused.
Mr.. DAVIS commented upon the remarks
of Mr.. Schenck, yesterday, rejecting on the
officers in the Adjutant-Generals Depart
ment.
Mr.. SCHENCK challenged him to point
out single sentence in his remarks reflect
ing upon the officers of any department.
Mr.. DAVIS suggested that he had accused
them of shirking the responsibility of active
service during the war.
Mr.. SCHENCK denied that he had used
any such language, but he would now say
that while the greater number of these Off
GERS employed in Washington would have
preferred to be on active duty in the field,
he believed there were others who were
here because they preferred to have places
in the Department rather than active SER
vice in the field.
Mr. DAVIS retorted by saying that some
officers of the Veteran Reserve Corps, for
which Mr.. Schenck showed SO much
anxiety, were men who got into that corps
when they could have gone to the front.
He knew officers in the army who looked
with distrust on any person who had entered
that corps.
Mr.. SCHENCK'S amendment was agreed
to.
Another amendment offered by Mr..
striking out the words "after
the first appointments made under the pro-
visions of this section" was also agreed to.
Mr.. STEVENS regarded the question as
simplifed to this Whether man should
be called John Jack, or simply Jack;
whether an officer should be called Assistant
General, or simply Adiutant. Ger
man Barons could show titles, but he did
not see why the title of Adjutant was not as
good as that of Assistant Adiutant General.
The debate was closed by the previous
question, and the House was brought to a
vote on Mr.. Thayer's substitute for the 18th
section. The vote was taken by yeas and
nays. and resulted as follows: Yeas SO;
nays 80.
The 18th section, as thus amended, reads
as follows:
And be it further enacted, That the Ad-
jutant Generals Department shall hereafter
consist of the officers now authorized by
law, and their rank shall be as follows;
An Adiutant General with the rank, pay
and emoluments of a Brigadier General;
four Assistant Adiutant Generals, with
rank, pay and emoluments of Colonels of
Cavalry; FIVE Assistant Adjutant Generals,
with rank, pay and emoluments Of Msjors
of Cavalry. The House then proceeded to
the consideration of the 18th section in re-
gard to Inspector Generals ofthe army.
Mr.. SCHENCK said he supposed the
Committee would find, in reference to this
section, that it would have some opposition
and difficulty from the Bureau officers ex-
perience d in reference to the last section,
and he would wish the House and country
to know the fact that in the 18th Section the
Committee had proposed to retain all the
officers in the Adjutant Generals Depart
ment and were to give them more rank
than they ever had before, but the
House was dissatisfied with that and had
increased rank of two Captains in the Ad-
iutant Generals Bureau to that of Colonel.
The House thus declares the committee was
wrong and that the gentlemen who use
their influence at the other end of the ave-
nue. were right. He had thought that the
war being over, and the army being pared
down these officers should not at all events
be increased in rank, but he thought that
the same number officers that were sufi-
cient when they were mYriads Of men IN
the field should be retained, but they were
TO have more rank. He was determined
and the country.
Mr.. THAYER rose to reply to the impu-
tations conveyed in the language Of the
Chairman of the Military Committee He
would leave the House and the country to
Judge of the good taste of the scolding
which the Chairman of the Military Com
mittee had given the House for daring to
differ with him upon a subject under con-
sideration in the House.
Mr.. DAVIS said he did not like to rest
under the imputations of the gentleman,
(Schenck). He was not under social or any
other influence in regard to the bill, but he
suspected that the opinion OF Lieutenant
General Grant, and Generals Meade and
Sherman concurred in the action taken by
the House on the 18th section, but it did
net meet the approval Of the honorable
gentleman from Ohio.
No amendment was offered to the l4th
section, which is as follows:
SIC. Ia. And be it further enacted that
there shall be four Inspector Generals of
the army, with the rank, pay and emolu-
ments of Colonels of cavalry, and four as
sistant Inspector Generals, with the rank,
pav and emolaments of Majors Of cavalry.
: The HOUSE proceeded to the considera-
ton ofthe IS section, in relation to the Bu-
reau of militery justice.
Mr.. GARFIELD, moved to amend by in-
serting after the words military commits
sion" the words "au' 'horized by law"
AIr. BINGHAM opposed the amendment
as casing a reflection upon the late PresI-
dent.
Mr.. UPSON moved to amend the amend
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