Mr. TRUMBULL. Mr. President, the case I am stating goes back of that. Money has been collected within the last year, as I understand, in the State of Alabama and paid, not to the provisional governor appointed by the President, not for the expenses of the legislature he convened, but to pay the salary of the rebel governor while the war raged; and I am told by an officer who served in the Union Army, and who previously fled from his home in Ala bama to avoid conscription into the rebel ranks, that the officer by whose orders he was pursued, his home destroyed, and his family turned house less upon the world, has been paid within the last year his salary as an officer for doing these verythings; and he gives me this official document, the treasurer's report, showing the payment of the money. Now, sir, how long is this condition of things to last? How long is the Congress of the U.S. to sit here and allow its loyal citizens, men who o to sustain the Government, to be persecuted for their loyalty, to be taxed to pay the salaries of the men who persecuted them? And, sir, I am told by delegations from NCarolina and Alabama and Louisiana and Texas, intelligent gentlemen, that the Union men of those States must leave them unless something is done for their protection, that they can get no justice in the courts, and that they have no protection for life, liberty, or property. I know the President claims that these States are already restored to their former position in the Union, that he has done it. "I have already commented upon the want of power in the President to do any such thing. But he constantly refers in his arguments upon this question to the fact that the postal and the revenue and the judicial systems are extended over these rebellious States, and he seems to suppose he extended them there. Why, sir, the President has had nothing to do with extending the postal and revenue laws and the judicial system over the rebellious States. hey extended there all the time of the rebellion. Every general law of Congress extended over the rebellious States as much as over the loyal States, but that did not restore their connection with the Union. Their connection was broken by the destruction of their State organizations, without which it could not exist. The citizens of those States are amenable to our laws and were all the time of the war. The law itself extended over them all the time, and there has been no extension of it by the President. It was not in his power to extend the laws of Congress beyond the limit where the laws themselves go. These political organizations which he has been instrumental in organizing are merely auxiliary, to the military power, and he has treated them so himself all the time when ever they have done an act interfering as he thought unjustly or improperly with the military control of the country. This shows exactly what they are; they are political organizations subordinate to the military power, and in my judgment entirely within the control of Congress. We can control the mili power there; and the POTUS, although he is by the Constitution Commander in Chief of the Army and the Navy, must command the Army.Navy according to the rules and regulations which the law prescribes for his government. He can carry his powers into execution only in accordance with such laws as Congress thinks proper to enact. The duty of Congress, in my judgment, is, if this state of facts be true as alleged, to interfere at once and set aside these political organizations which are oppressing loyal men and are managing the affairs of these States in the interest of the very men who sought to overturn and destroy this Government. The people of Louisiana that is the particular case must accept the fate that awaits all people who unjustly and wickedly engage in war and are defeated. They are at the mercy of the Federal Government of the U.S.A.; and the Congress of the U.S. is vested with authority to pass all laws necessary to carry into execution all powers intrusted to this Government. Then, sir, I think it should exercise this power and pass the necessary laws to secure to Union men and loyal citizens their rights in these rebellious States, the necessary laws to place them in authority and control so that they may have protection, and secure to all republican liberty. And now, sir, commending this memorial to the serious and early attention of the JtComReconstruction, I move that it be referred to that committee.