Mr. JOHNSON. I do not know thatI shall object to any of the amendments which the committee have reported; but if I understand what was done in committee in relation to the amendment of the bill, they have not reported an amendment which I think should be made. If the honorable Senator does not propose to act on the bill to(lay, but merely to act on the amendments which the committee have proposed, I have no objection, certainly, that the bill shall be taken up. The motion to take up the bill was agreed to; and the Bill (S.No.60) to enlarge the powers of the Freedmens Bureau was considered as in ComWhole. It provides that the act to establish a Bureau for the relief of Freedmen and Refugees, approved March 8, 1865, shall continue until 0t crwise provided for by law, and shall extend to refugees and freedmen in all arts of the U.S. The President is to e authorized to divide the section of couutry containing such refu gees and freedmen into districts, each containing one or more States, not to exceed 12 in number, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint an asst commissioner for each district, who shall give like bond, receive the same compensation, and perform the which it is an amendment. The bureau may, in the discretion of the President, be placed under a Commissioner and asst commissioners, to be detailed from the Army, in which event each Officer so assigned to duty is to serve without increase of pay or allowances. The Commissioner, with the approval of the President, is to divide each district into a number of subdistricts, not to exceed the number of counties or parishes in each State, and to assign to each sub district at least one a cut, either a citizen, officer of the Army, or enlisted man, who, if an officer, is to serve without additional compensation or allowance, and if a citizen or enlisted man, is to receive a salary not exceeding $1,500 perannum. Each assist commissioner may employ not exceediu 6 clerks. one of the 3rd class and 5 of the 1st class, and each agent of a sub district may employ 2 clerks of the 1st class. The POTUS, through the War Dept, and the Commissioner, is to extend military jurisdiction and protection over allcm loye s, agents, and officers of the bureau, and the SecyWar may direct such issues of provisions, clothing, fuel, and other supplies, including medical stores and transportation, and afford such aid, medical or otherwise, as he may deem needful for the immediate and temporary shelter and supply of destitute and suffering refu ees and free men, their wives and children, under such rules and regulations as he run direct. It is also proved that the President may, for settlement in the manner prescribed by section 4 of the act to which this is an amendm ent, reserve from sale or settlement, under the homestead or preemption laws, public lands in Florida, Missmsippi, and Arkansas, not to exceed 3 million acres of good land in all, the rental named in that section to be deter mined in such manner as the Commissioner shall by reulation prescribe. It proposes to confirm an make valid the possesso titles granted in pursuance of Major GenlSherman s special field order, dated at Savannah, January 16, 1865. The Commissioner, under the direction of the President, is to be empowered to purchase or rent such tracts of land in the several districts as may be necessary to provide for the indi lent refugees and freedmen dependent upon the government for support; also to purchase sites and buildings for schools and asylums, to be held as U.S. property, until the refugees or freedmen shall purchase the same, or they shall be otherwise disposed of by the Commissioner. Vt henever in any State or district in which flhe ordinary course of judicial proceedings has been interrupted by the rebellion, and wherein, in consequence of any State or local law, ordinance, police, or other regulation, custom, or prejudice, any of the civil rights or immunities clonging to white persons (including the right to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchasc, lease, sell, hold, and convey real artdpersonal property, and to have full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and estate) are refused or denied to negroes, mulattoes, freedmen, refugees, or any other persons, on account of race, color, or any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, exeept as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, or wherein they or any of them are subjected to any other or different punishment, pains, or penalties, for the commission of any act or offense, than are prescribed for white persons committing like acts or offenses, it is to be the duty of the POTUS, through the commissioner, to extend military protection and jurisdiction over all cases aflecting such persons so discriminated against. Any person who, under color of any State or local law, ordinance, police or other regulation or custom, shall, in any State or district in which the ordinary course of judicial proceedings has been interrupted by the rebellion, subject, or cause tobe subjecte, any negro, mullato ("30d same duties prescribed by this act and the act to man, refugee, or other person, on account of race or color, or any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as ishment for crime whereof the party shallupuanve been duly convicted, or for any other cause, to the deprivation of any civil right secured to white persons, or to any other or different punishment than white persons are subject to for the commission of like acts or offenses, is to be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by line not exceeding $1,000, or inprisonment not exceeding one year, or both. t is to be the duty of the officers and a cuts. of this bureau to take jurisdiction of, and ear and determine, all offenses committed against this provision; and also of all cases affecting negroes, muluttoes, freedmen, refugees, or other persons who are discriminated against in any of the particulars mentioned in the act, under such rules and regulations as the POTUS, through the War Dept, may prescribe. This jurisdiction is to cease and determine whenever the discrimination on account of which it is conferred ceases, and is in no event to be exercised in any State in which the ordinary course of judicial proceedings has not been interrupted by the recllion, nor in any such State after it shall have been fully restored in all its constitutional relations to the U.S., and the courts of the State and of the U.S. within its limits are not disturbed or stopped in the peaceable course of justice. The 1st amendment of the ComJudiciary was in section one, line 5, after the word “ continue” to insert “in force, ” so asto read, ” that the act to establish a Bureau for the relief of Freedmen and Refugees, approved March 3, 1866, shall continue in orce until otherwise provided;" and in line 6, after “ provided, to strike out “ for.”