Mr. DAVIS. Of course I do not intend to misstate or to misunderstand the honorable Senfrom Illinois, for 2 simple reasons. In the 1st place, he is here to correct me if I should misrepresent him; and, in the 2nd place, a muc higher principle actuates me: my own self respect would prevent me from misrepresenting im. But I do understand this bill entirely different from his present construction of it. He certainly announced on the day and in the speech to which I have referred, that it was his purpose that this bill should aply to the States of 1Delaware and Kentucky. ell, as I read the bill, and as I understand it, there is not a provision or power in the bill, or conferred by it, that will not apply as well to those States as to any of the States lately in insurrection. If that be the meaning of the honorable chairman who reported this bill, when I et 11 and offer an amendment providing that this bill shall not apply to any of the States in which the courts are open for the enforcement of the civil law, why oes he not propose that, so far as this confers or attempts to confer judicial power, it shall not be applicable to any States in which the courts are open, and in which the laws may be enforced 1 He makes no such reposition, and I do not understand that the bill, if it becomes a law, as I have no doubt it will become a law, is susceptible of that interpretation or construction. No, sir; no, sir. This bill has been constructed upon consultation, and upon consultation by men in Kentucky and from Kentucky, as I am informed, with the honorable chairman and it is one of the main purposes of this bill on the part of the men who have been in consultation with himI will not say on his partthat it shall apply, and that it shall apply in all of its requisitions of military power to interfere with the courts in the State of Kentucky and I want the bill so worded that it shal have no such application. The simple proposition of my amendment is that the officers under this bureau shall not assume any judicial powers in any State where the courts are open and where the civil laws may be enforced. The courts are open in Kentuc y as much so as they are in Illinois. The civil laws can be enforced there in our civil courts by that D medium just as effectually as they can in Illiums, or Massachusetts, or any other State. If the purpose is not that the courts in the State of hcntucky shall he invaded With all the military power invoked by this bill for the protection of all agents and persons aeting under it, why does not the honorable Senator accept the proposition that the Commissioner and officers acting under this bill shall not assume judicial powers in an State where the courts are o on for the enforcement of the civil law? That is the whole proposition of the amendment, and on it I as for the yeas&nays. The yeas&nays were ordered; and being taken, resultedyens 9, nays 3; ABSENT 6. So the amendment was rejected.