Mr. SAULSBURY. In offering this amendment, my object was not to pay compliments to an person, whether white or blue. I do not doubt that what the honorable Senator states is perfectly correct, that there are many 100s and 1,000s of the negro population now residing in this District who are in poor and destitute circumstances, and I have no doubt they need relief; but, sir, I cannot walk Pennsylvania avenue or any other street in Washington without having appeals for mo made to me by little white boys and girls, barefooted, without enough clothes to protect them from the inclemency of the weather. The honorable Senator thinks it is no compliment to the white population of the District to ask for aid for these indigent white people; and yet, sir, we cannot close our eyes to the fact that there are 100s and 1,000s of white people in this city who do not know what it is to have meat upon their tables, and who when they have provided themselves with one meal do not know where the next is to come from. Sir, I did nothing to cause the influx of this negro population into this District. It was told to us here when you were abolishing sla very in this District that the District wouEIdbe a paradise for the free ucgroes. That ara dise, with all its blessings and all its comorts, has been described to you very accurately this morning by the honorable Senfrom Maine. Sir, let not your charity be confined to the negro population of this District if you have just cause for believing that there is an equal npmber or any number of destitute white people. I cannot see the evidence of such destitution in the midst of this black population that some peo.le see. I cannot loo around at any time in these galleries but what I see young, hale, stout negro men witnessingdny after day, week after week and month after month, the delib erations of your Chamber, when there are 100s and 1,000s of poor young white men in this country who cannot afford to take one single day to listen to your debates. Your Freedmens Bureau has this class of negro population under their particular charge. there is no bureau to take under their charge the white population of this District or of this country. When on proposed to appropriate out of the public Treasury the sum of p$25,000 (which you have no constitutional right to appropriatc) for the relief of these people, all I ask ofyou is to be just as humane and just as charitable to your own race as you are to the negro population. I therefore cannot withdraw my amendment.