Mr. TRUMBULL. The Senfrom Pennsylvania will see that the effect of that would be to exclude from the operation of the bureau the State of Kentucky and the State of Delaware, where the slaves have been emancipated by the constitutional amendmept. The operation of the bureau will undoubtedly be chie yconfined to the States where slavery existed; but it is a fact which may not be known to the Senfrom Pennsylvania, that during this war large numbers of slaves have fled to the northern States bordering on slaveholding territory. They congre ated in very large numbers at Cairo; a goo many of them upon the southern borders of Indiana, and some in Ohio. The people of those States are very unwillin to provide forand take care of these persons who come there without any means at a l, and it is necessary for somebody to look after them. The Freedmens Bureau, I think, has already sent some of its agents to these points, and has made some disposition of them by procuring them employmenu or shipping them to other places, to relieve the communities where they were from the expense of maintainingthem. It is with that view that the bill is madeto extend throughout the country. It is not supposed that the bill will have any effect in the State of pennsylvania orin the State of Illinois, unless it might, perhaps, be at Cairo, where there has been a large number of these refugees congregated without any means of support, they followed the Army there at different times and the same thing is true in Indiana to some extent; and in Ohio. I do not know that there can be any objection to the Freedmens Bureau, which is organized with a view of looking after the interests of these people, sending one of its agents there to aid them in getting into positions where they can become selfsustainin. The provision of the bill in regard to holdin courts, and some other provisions, are confined entirely to the rebellious States, and will have no operation in any State which was not in insurrection against this Governrnent. I make this explanation to the Senfrom Pennsylvania, and I think he will see the necessity of the bureau goinginto Kentucky and some of the other States, as much as into an of the southern rebellious States.