Mr. TRUMBULL. It is necessary, Mr. President, to extend the Freedmens Bureau beyond the rebel States in order to take in the State of Delaware, [Laughter] the loyal State of Delaware, I am apply to say, which did not engage in this wicked rebellion; and it is necessary to protect the freedmen in that State as well as elsewhere; and that is the reason for extending the Freedmens Bureau beyond the limits of the rebellious States. Now the Senfrom Indiana says it extends all over the U.S. Well, by its terms it does, though practicall it can have little if any operation outside of telate slave holding States. If freedmen should congregate in large numbers at Cairo, Illinois, or at Evansville, ndiana, and become a charge upon the peois of those States, the FreedmensBureau wou d have a right to extend its jurisdiction over them, provide for theirtwants, secure for them employment, and place them in situations where they could provide for themselves; and would the State of Illinois or the State of Indiana object to that? The provisions of the bill which would interfere with the laws of Indiana can have no operation there. Again, the Senator objects very much to the expense of this bureau. Why, sir, as I have once or twice before said, it is apart of thamil ltary establishment. I believe nearly all its officers at the present time are military officers, and by the provisions of the pending bill they are to receive no additional compensation when performing duties in the Free mens Bureau. he bill declares that the “ bureau may, in the discretion of the President, be placed under a Commissioner and asstcommissioners, to be detailed from the Army, in which event each officer so assigned to duty shall serve without increase of pay or allowances.” The head of this bureau, GenlHoward, is an officer of the Army. He receives no additional pay or allowances in consequence of performing the duties of Commissioner of the freedmen s Bureau. I see by a report which I have here that the asst commissioners also are all, or nearly all of them, officers of the Army. The asst commissioner for SCarolina is Brevet Major General Rufus Saxton, an officer in the regular Army; for Alabama, Brevet Major General Wager Swayne; for Louisiana, Brevet Major General A. Baird; for Georgia, Brigadier General Davis Tillson; for Kentucky and Tennessee, Briadier General C. B. Fiske; for Missouriand Arkansas, Brigadier General J. W. Spragne; for Texas, Brigadier General E. M. Gregory; for Virginia, Colonel Orlando Brown for NCarolina, Colonel E. Whittlesey fbr Mississippi, Colonel Samuel Thomas for Elorida, Colonel T. W. Osborne, and for the DistCol, Brevet Briga dier General John Eaton, jr.; so that this item of expense, which so alarms the Senfrom Indiana, it will be seen, has very little in it. It was the opinion of GenlGrantthat it would, perhaps, e better to detail otheers from the Army entirely. I think he rather intimates that opinion in his report; but, upon consultation, it was thought better to leave the discretion to employ civilians in some instances. It was stated that, in some of the southern States, there was manifested a disposition on the part of the people themselves to take care of and provide for the colored people. It was rere sented that the civil Officers in some of the late slaveholding States had been associated with the officers of the bureau, and had aided mate rially in. carrying out the provisions of the law; and it was thought better, therefore, to retain this provision allowing the! POTUS, in his discretion, to a point civilians if he thought proper. It is a weretion that has been very sparingly exercised heretofore, and never Will be exercised, I undertake to say, whenever properofficers of the Army can be found for the performance of the duties. I shall necessarily, Mr. President, in following the Senfrom Indiana, speak somewhat ina desultory manner; but I prefer to do so because I would rather meet the objectiOns made directly then by any general speech. I vflll therefore take up his next objection, which is to the 5th section of the bill. That section proposesto confirm for 3 years the possessory titles granted by GenlSherman . The Senfrom Indiana admits that GenlSherman had authority when at the head of the army at Savan nah, and these people were flocking around him and dependent upon him for support, to put them upon the abandoned lands. but he says that authority to put them there and maintain them there cease with peace. Well, sir, a sufficient answer to that would be that peace has not yet come; the effects of war are not yet ended; the people of the States of SCarolina, Georgia, and Florida, where these lands are situated, are et subject to military control. But I deny that i peace had come the authority of the Government to protect these people in their possessions would cease the moment it was. declared. What are the facts? The owners of these lantations had abandoned them and enteredt c rebel army. They were contending against the army which GenlSherman then commanded. Numerous colored. people had flocked around GenlSherman s army. It was necessary that he should supply them to save them from starvation. His commissnrint wasshort. Here was this abandoned country owned by men arrayed in arms against the Government. He, it is admitted, had authority to put these followers ofhis armyupon these lands and authorize them to go to work and gain a subsistence if they could. They went on the lands to the number of 40 or 50,000, commenced work have made improvements; and, now, will the Senfrom In ana tell me that upon any principle of justice, humanity, or law. if peace had come when these laborers had a crop half gathered, the Government of the U.S., having rightfully placed them in possession, and pledged its faith to protect them there for an uncertain period, could imme diately have turned them off and put in possession those traitor owners who had abandoned their homes to fight against the Government?