Mr. Trumbull; The Senfrom missouriassuinestha thereisasort of property qualification tocitizenship. such is not e meaning of the provision. The Senfrom Missouriand myself desire to arrive at the same point precisely, and that is to make citizens of everybody born in the U.S. who owe allegiance to the U.S. We cannot make a citizen of the child of a foreign minister who is temporarily residing here. There is a difficulty in framin the amendment so as to make citizens of all the people born in the U.S and who owe a legiance to it. I thought that might perhaps be the best form in which to put the amendment at one time, “That all persons born in the U.S and owing allegiance thereto are hereby declared to be citizens;” but upon investigation it was found that a sort of allegiance was due to the country frompersons temporarily resident in it whom we would have no right to make citizens, and that that. form would not answer. Then it was suggested that we should make citizens of all persons born in the U.S. not subject to any foreign Power or tribal authority. The objection to that was that there were Indians not subject to tribal authority who get. were wild and untamed in their habits, who adby some means or other become separated from their tribes and were not under the laws of any civilized community, and of whom the authorities of the U.S. took no jurisdiction. The Senfrom California [Mr. Coxnrzss] told us that there were in his State Indians who had been placed upon reservations. nuder charge of Indian superintendentswho had been separated from their tribes and were not under any tribal authority, but they were there under the regulations of treaties which had been made With them, and were supplied and looked after by our Indian agents the same as other Indians who were perfectly wild, not submitting at all to the usa resof civilized life, and it could not he intends to make that class of persons citizens. Then it was proposed to adopt the amendment as it now stands, that all persons born in the U.S. not subject to any foreign Power, excludin Indians not taxed, shall be citizens. What oes that phrase “excluding Indians not taxed” mean? The Senfrom Missouriunderstands it to be a property qualification to become a citizen. ot at all. It is a constitutional term used by the men who made the constitution itself to designate, what? To designate a class of persons who were not a part of our population. That is what it means. They are not counted in the census. They are notregnrded as a part of our people. he term “ Indians nottaxed” means Indians not counted in our enumeration of the people of the U.S. V