..., subsistence, or allowances — yeas, twenty-nine; nays, eleven; so the amendment was agreed to. Mr. Hale moved to amend the bill, so as to give to retired officers half-pay, instead of pay. Mr. Collamer , of Vermont, suggested that the amendment should be that they should retire upon half the pay to which they were entitled at the time of their being retired, provided that the same should never be le...