Mr. SCHENCK. Mr. Speaker, this resolution as I at 1st drew it had a wider scope and directed inquiry into all cases similar to that described in it; but on reflection it occurred to me that an investigation into this particular instance might be made by the ComJudiciary without interfering with the performance of its other duties; while I was apprehensive that an attempt to impose on that committee or a select committee the duty of investigating such cases in all parts of the country might result in our having no report for a long time to come. owever, I am not by any means unfriendl to any such general investigation, and I thin every one must have concluded in the present temper of the chief Executive of the o States we have no right to expect he will lend us any of the aid of that power vested in him to carry out the laws of the U.S., to prevent inequality and oppression in relation to any particular class of citizens in those States lately in rebellion. The Gentfrom Pennsylvania has given ou one or 2 other instances in illustration. I appen to be in possession of the facts in another case which I will take occasion to present as showing little is to be hoped from that quarter. An old negro man, I think between” 70 and 80, a much respected preacher of the Gospel, living in Georgia, was emphoyed by a benevolent association at Philadelphia, as I believe, to act as superintendent of an asylum, home, or school in that State for colored people. He received a small pittance of sal ary amounting, I think, to $35 a month, which was much for him and quite sufficient for all his needs. In order to wreak their vengeance upon northern philanthropy and to manifest their contempt and hatred for northern people and their benevolent movements, this old man was arrested on the charge of vagrancy, and it has been decided in a court in Georgia, and upon appeal, I think, to a superior court the decision affirmed, one receiving compensation of that kind, from northern benevolence, though in the shape of fixed salary, yet for a negro, was a vagrant under their laws, a person without any visible means of support; and he has been condemned to the chain gang for, I think, a term of 12 months, and is now working out that punishment. The matter has been sent to the Judge Advocate General of the U.S., where I had the opportunity of Hono official papers proving all these facts. Yet we seem to be powerless to enforce the civil rights bill so as to protect a man under these circumstances.