Mr. DAVIS. I move to amend the bill by striking out all of the 2nd section after the word “class” in the 15th line, in the following words: “And the POTUS, through the whn Dept and the commissioner shall extend MilitaryJurisdiction and protection over all employees, agents and officersof this bureau. The sole object. of that provision is to suppress wholly the Jurisdiction and the action of the conrts, Federal or State, in all the States. that may come into conflict with the operations of this bureau. We have in all the States federal district courts; we have State courts. This bill embodies a great deal of judicial power, and all this judicial power it invests in this bureau. in the commissioners to be appointed by the President, or in military officers who are assigned to the performance of those duties. I ask the honorable Senator who reported this. iill, by what warrant does he subject not only the jurisdiction and actionof the State courts, but of the Federal courts, to this Freedmens Bureau; and in the conflict of authority between the bureau and the Federal or State courts, by what warrant of power does he provide that “the POTUS, through the War Dept and the Commissioner, shall extend military jurisdiction and protection over all employee s, agents, and oliieers of this bureau?” here are other sections of the bill upon which I shall comment as they are called up by offering amendments to them. The bill. creates judicial powers; it authorizes the construction of cases between citizens of the U.S., if the negroes are citizens, between a white man and a negro; and these cases, that appertain, according to the constitution of the U.S., to the judicial power of the Government exclusively, are vested, or attempted to be vested, by this bill, in the commissioner, asst commissioners, and agents of this ureau; and if the courts, Federal or State, are invoked to give the protection of the constitution and the laws to a white man who is a party to one of these controversies, the asst commissioner or agent deciding against the white man, and a conflict of jurisdiction arises between the bureau and the courts State or Federal, the President is authorized by the clause which I move to strike out to extend military jurisdiction and protection to all the asst commissioners and a eats of this bureau who are deciding againstt e constitution, against the law, and to the prejudice of the white citizen. I enter my protest against the interposition of the military power tor any such purpose. It is directed by is clause to be invoed and to o crate for the utter subversion of the courts of the States in the trial of judicial questions between the people of those States. I therefore move that that portion of the bill be stricken out.