Excerpt from Hearing on Senate Bill 6951, for the Relief of the State of Pennsylvania

The amendment was agreed to, and then Mr. Stevens proceeded to say: This bill passed this House on a former occasion, and was lost between the two Houses.

In 1863, at the time of the invasion of Pennsylvania, the States of Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey sent a large number of troops under the proclamation of the President and at the call of the governors of the different States to cooperate in repelling that invasion. They were in the service, under command of officers of the United States. After the battle of Gettysburg, and the troops had withdrawn, they went on to settle the amount under the act of 1861, which authorized the treasurer to pay them. Fifteen million dollars had been appropriated for the purpose of settling all such debts by the act of February 25, 1862. In adjusting the accounts it was found that the accounts claimed and allowed to the States of New York and New Jersey absorbed the whole and a few dollars more. The few dollars due to New Jersey have since been paid.

At the time of the adjustment Pennsylvania agreed that she would allow her claim to remain back until the other States had been paid. As the invasion was in her territory it was thought that her troops should be last paid. But the had run out, and the Secretary of War and the President telegraphed to the governor of Pennsylvania, asking him to raise the money to pay the troops, and promising that at the meeting of Congress payment would be recommended. There was nothing in the treasury at the disposal of the governor, so he went to Philadelphia and raised from a few gentlemen there about and paid the troops. The accounts were since adjusted in the department here on the 4th of January, 1864. The amount allowed is It is that amount with the interest due to those individuals which has since been paid by the State of Pennsylvania that it is proposed to pay. Pennsylvania has paid it, and that State is now substituted for these individuals.

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