Mr. CONNESS. Those laws have been tested in our own courts, and when passed under the influence of public feeling there they have been declared again and sin by the supreme court of the State of California to be ymd, violative of our treaty obligations, an n c with the commerce of the nation., then, I beg the honorable Senfrom Pennsylvania, though it may be very good capital in an electionecring campaign to declaim against the Chinese, not to give himself any trouble about the Chinese, but to confine himself entirely to the injurious effects of this provision upon the encouragement of a Gypsy invasion of Pennsylvania. I had never heard myself of the invasion of Pennsylvania by Gypsies. I do not. know, and'I do not know that the honorable Senator can tell us, how many Gypsies the census shows to be within the State of Pennsylvania. The only invasion of Pennsylvania within my recollection was, invasion very much worse and m “Gaul OHS, of the State, and more to be feared and more Sued than that Of Gypsies. It was an inva el ich is amendment, if I understand it aright, is intended to guard against and to prevent the recurrence of. On that occasion I am not aware, I do not remember that the State of Pennsylvania claimed the exclusive right of expelling the invaders, but on the contrary my recollection is that Pennsyl vania called loudly for the assistance of her sister States to aid in the expulsion of those invaders did not claim it as a State right to exclude them, did not think it was a violation of the sovereign rights of the State when the citizens of NewYork and NewJersey went to the field in Pennsylvania and expelled those invaders. But wh all this talk about Gypsies and Chinese? I have lived in the U.S. for now, many a year, and reallyI have heard more about Gypsies within the last 2 or 3 monthsJ han I have heard before in my life. 1g, cannot be because they have increased so much of imp, It cannot be because they have been felt to be particularly oppressive in this 0; gha; locality; It must be that the Gypsy element is to be added to our political agitation, so that hemnfter the negro alone shall, not claim our entire attention. Here is a simple declaration that a score or a few score of human beings born in the U.S shall i be regarded as citizens of the U.S., entitled to civil rights, to the right of equal defense, to the right of equal punishment for crime with other citizens; and that such a provision should be deprecated by any person having or claiming to have a high humanity passes all my understanding and comprehension. Mr. President, let me 've an instance here, in this connection, to ilTiistrate the necessity of the civil rights bill in the State of California; and I am quite aware that what I shall say will go to California and I wish it to do so. By the influence of our “southern brethren, ” who I will not say invaded California, but who went there in large numbers some years since, and who seized political power in that State and used it, who made our statutes and who expounded our statutes from the bench, negroes were forbidden to testify in the courts of law of that State, and Mongolians were forbidden to testify in the courts; and therefore for many years, indeed, until 1862, the State of California held officially that a man with a black skin could not tell the truth, could not be trusted to give a relation in a court of law of what he saw and what he know. In 1862 the State Legislature repealed the law as to negroes, but not as to Chinese. Where white men were parties the statute yet remained, depriving the Mongolian of the right to testify in a court of law. What was the consequence of preserving that statute? I will tell you. During the 4 vears of rebellion a good many 0 our “southern brethren” in California took upon themselves the occupation of what is there technically called “road agents.” It is a term well known and well understood there. They turned out upon the public highways, and became robbers, highway robbers; they seized the treasure transmitted and conveyed by the express companies, b our stage lines, and in one instance may ea very heavy seizure, and claimed that it was done in accordance with the authority of the socalled confederacy. But the authorities of California hunted them T l their presence among us. We are entirely ready to accept the provision proposed in this constitutional amendment, that the children, born here of Mongolian parents shall be declared by the Constitution of the U.S. i to be entitled to civil rights and to equal protection before the law with others.