Mr. DAVIS. This is a very important bill; and it is a verylate hour of the session to pass it. From the reading of it at the Clerk’s table, I observe some provisions in it which I think very doubtful po icy; and it may lead to injus tice. As I gather the contents of the bill nsit was read, there is a provision to rerent nper son that has been discharged by a IlU.S. court upon awrit of habeascorpus from being taken again by the authority of the State courts or State laws; and the latter part of the bill suspends its operation against persons held by l the military authorities of the U.S., ifI athered the meaning of it aright. Now, sir, believe that where a party has made his petition for a writ of habeascorpus and has been discharged in pursuance of the provisions of the habeascorpus not there is very greatly more danger of oppression by rearrest by the militar authorities of the country than by the authorities of the t‘ tes. I am not satisfied that the provisions against rearrest by the State authorities are not altogether too stringent; and I have no belief whatever that such immu nity as is given to the militar authorities by that bill from having personstalien under Military arrest delivered from their custody, and their aggression by a writ of habeascorpus, is not altogether to that extent subversive of the constitutional liberties of the citizen. I am sorry that I did not know the contents of this bill before by general consent and acquies cence it was agreed by the Senate to be taken up. I never would have given my sanction to such a hurried consideration of a measure so important and that is to hear so vitally upon the rights and the liberties of the people. From the way that the bill set out in its 1st section I had believed and hoped that it was a wise, liberal, and just provision to secure to the people of the U.S. their constitutional rights and liberties, but I am not satisfied that it was not aningenious device for the purpose of making further and more effectnal and grievous encroachments upon those rights and liberties. I do hope that the Senate will not pass the bill without giving further time and opportunity for its consideration. I therefore move that the bill be postponed until the ff rst day of the next session of Congress.