Mr. TRUMBULL. I am very glad the Senfrom Delaware has asked the question. I answer, he had most ample and complete authority. I indorse the order and every word of it. It would be monstronsif the officers and soldiers of the Army and loyal citizens Were to be subjectedta suits and rosccutions for acts done in saving the It. lo, and that, too, at the hands of the very men who naught its destruction. Why, had not the Lieutenant General authority to issue the order? Have not the civil tribunals in all the region of country to which the order applies been expelled by armed rebels and traitors? Has not the power of the Government been overthrown there? Is it yet reestablished? Some ste s have been taken toward recstablisbing it on or the authority of the military, and in no other way. If any of the State governments recently set up in the rebellious States were to undertake to embar rass military operations, I have no doubt they would at once he set aside by order of the Lieu tenantGeneral, in pursuance of directions from the Executive. These governments which have been set up act by permission of the military. They are made use of to some extent to preserve peace and order and enforce civil rights between parties; and so far as they act in ar mony with the constitution and laws of the U.S and the orders of the military commanders, they are permitted to exercise authority; but until those States shallbe restored in all their constitutional relations to the Union they ought not to be permitted to exercise authority in any other way. I desire the Senfrom Indiana to understand thatit is under this war power that the authority of the freedmens Bureau is to be exercised. “I do not claim that its officers can t persons for offenses without juries in States wrhere the civil tribunals have not been interrupted by the rebellion. The Senfrom Indiana argues against this bill as if it was applicable to that State. Some of its provisions are, but most of them are not, unless the State of Indiana has been in rebellion against the Government; and I know too man of the brave men who have gone from that State to maintain the integrity of the Union and put down the rebellion to cast an such imputation upon her. She i! a loyal an a patriotic State; er civil government has never been usurped or overthrown by traitors, and the provisions of the 7th and 8th sections of the bill to which the Senator alludes cannot, by their ver terms, have any application to the State of ndiana. Let me read the concluding sentence of the 8th section: the jurisdiction conferred by this section on the officers and agentsof this bureau to ceaseanddeter mine whonever the discrimination on account ofwhich it is conferredeeases and in o eventto be exercised. in any State in which the ort inary courseof udicial proceedingshasnot beeninterru)Ied bv there)ellion, nor in tmysueh State after said Stateshullhave been fully restoredin all its constitutional relations to the U.S., and the courts of the State nndof the U.S. within the same are not disturbed or stoppedin the peacoablecourseof Justice. Will the Senfrom Indiana admit for a moment that the courts in his State are now. disturbed or stopped in the peaceable course of justice? If they were ever so disturbed, they are not now. Will the Senator admit that the State of Indiana does not have and exercise all its constitutional rights as one of the States of this Union? The judicial authority conferred by this bill applies to no State, not even to SCarolina, afterit shall have been restored in all its constitutional rights.