Mr. TRUMBULL. I wish to explain the sheet of the amendments recommen edby the ComJudiciary. The ComJudiciary recommend a concurrence with the House with this exception. We propose to strike out of the House amendment the limitation which the House has put upon the operation of the bill. The effect of the amendment of the House is to prevent the operation of the bureau in Maryland, Delaware Missouri, and in some of the other States. That is the only important amendment which the ComJudiciary recommend. They recommend averbal amendment in the 5th section which it is unnecessary to explain until we come to it. All theother amendments are verbal. I think there are 2 or 3 other verbal amendments. But the only substantial sngiecinent which the ComJudiciary recommend with the House proposition s the one to strike out this limitation and leave the bill in that respect as it passed the Senate. wish to say upon that point that the bill as it passed the Senate can have no operation except in regions of country where there are refugees and freedmen. It is confined to those districts of country, and it could not have operation in most of the loyal States. But it is desirable, as I am informed, and it was so stated by one of the Senators from Maryland, that the o crations of this bill should be extended to Maryland. It may be necessary that it should be extended to Missouri, and possibly to Dela ware. I trust not; but the authority to extend it there ought to exist if there should be occasion for it. The only objection I have to lim itin the operation of the bill to the late slaveholding States is that I think it bad legislation, when we are endeavoring to break down discrimination and distinction, to pass a law which is to operate in one State of the Union and not in another. I would rather that the law should be general, although I am fully aware that there is nothing for the law to operate upon in most of the States of the Union. I do not feel quite willing to vote upon Kentucky, for instance a law that I am not willing to have upplicabfe to the State of Illinois, if such a state. of facts exists as that the law can o crate in Illinois. I prefer, therefore, to have the bill in the shape in which it passed the Senate, and such was the opinion of the ComJudiciary. I submit to the Presiding Officer whether the question upon these amendments will be one question or several. We recommend the adoptionof the House amendment with certain amendments. Will they be considered sep: arately, I.