The report supposes the neglect was due to the fact that the services were rendered to the Secret Service Commission and inclines to think that the two thousand dollars received was considered a sufficient remuneration for the literary work. "The committee have not been able to find a precedent for payment of claims of this character." * * * "But it would destroy much of the poetry and grandeur of noble deeds were a price demanded for kindred services, and achievements of this nature huckstered in the market as commodities of barter." _And that is all a report intended to be adverse can say against the claim._ One might remark that it is not wholly unprecedented for honorable gentlemen to receive remuneration from the Government for services rendered, or even to ask for their traveling expenses. But this looks somewhat like a sneer. Was it directed against the noble invalid who had devoted her life and strength, her great ability, and her private fortune to the service of her country for years, with such lavish prodigality and such brilliant success, and had left a fitting award wholly to the determination of Congress, asking only that it should be made in some way that should mark the unusual and distinctive nature of the services rendered? No; surely it must have been directed against the Government agent who wanted Miss Carroll, for the consideration of $750, to give a receipt in full for a bill of $5,000 remaining--a bill certified by the highest authorities to be sufficiently low or altogether _too_ low for the literary work performed. (No wonder if _such_ huckstering moved Mr. Cockrell's righteous soul.) His remarks also were exceedingly applicable to a liberal-minded person who shortly after sent in a bill recommending that after all these years Congress would kindly allow Miss Carroll a pension of _$50 a month_ for "the important military services rendered the country by her during the late civil war." If any more $50 miseries are proposed we would commend to the committees Mr. Cockrell on "huckstering." The true description of such a report would be "admission of the incontestable nature of the services rendered." Then followed the report of the Military Committee of 1881--the last report, so far as I have been able to ascertain, "printed by order of Congress." It is as follows, verbatim: 46th Congress,\ House of Representatives. / Report 3d Session. / \ No. 386 * * * * * ANNA ELLA CARROLL. * * * * * March 3, 1881.--Committed to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. E. S. Bragg, from the Committee on Military Affairs, submitted the following _Report._ (To accompany bill H. R. 7256.)