Mr. DAVIS. Mr. President, I see imclearly how this matter is intended to operate in Kentucky, and how it will be executed in Kentudry as I shall 3 months hence when the whole scheme shall have been put in execution. Let me state how it is intended to operate. One of these asstcommissioners or agents decides a judicial case between a negro and a white man; he assumes jurisdiction of it. The white man knows, or thinks he knows, that the pass commissioner or the agent has no jurisdiction in the matter. What does he do? He applies to one of our State courts, ifyou please, or to the Federal district court, for a writ of prohibition against the asst commissioner or the agent from further proceedings in the case. What is done then? For daring to apply for that writ of prohibition the citizen is taken ssession o by the military power. What else is done? I he applies to a State court for a writ of prohibition, and that State court grants the writ on the round that the law is unconstitution al, void, o no effect, that it invests in this Freedmens Bureau judicial powers when the constitution of the expressly says that judicial power shall be exercised only by the Supreme Court and such in ferior courts as Congress may from time to time establish; and if the Officer of the court proceeds to execute the writ, this militar power in Kentucky organized and authorize to in am arrests the court and the Officer of the court who is about to execute the writ of prohibition. That will be its effect, and that he AttyGen of the U.S. designs shall be its effects and operation in the State of Kentucky amen (God save the mark!) who is called AttyGen of the U.S. ! He has been concocting an iniquitous and bold and lawless and unconstitutional scheme to have this effect in Kentucky. Sir, I know, with the Senfrom California, that any man who chooses may apply for a writ of prohibition; but under this bill any man who makes that application is subject to be arrested by the military. The bill authorizes the militar to interpose for the protection of the negro; an how is it to interpose for his protection? If our court of appeals or any of our courts grant a writ of prohibition against one of these asst commissioners, or agents, immediately the military power is summoned, and it seizes and imprisons in a distant bastile the citizen who dares to claim the right of applying to the courts of his State and of his country for a writ of prohibition against an illegal proceeding undertaken by an unconstitutional tribunal and if the court of appeals or the circuit courts of Kentucky, or any court, State or Federal, in that State grants a writ of prohibition against such aproceeding, and puts itin the hands of a sheriff, a scrgcaiitatnrms, or a marshal for execution, that officer and the court who directed that writ of prohibitionareimmediatelylinble to be seized by this military power and imprisoned. Sir, the bill was designed to bring about that state of things in Kentucky. That is its meaning; that is its language; that is its spirit; that is its purposeall devised, contemp ated, and desired by the highest law officer of the U.S., as I am informed. I protest inst any such tyranny. In the name of my state, in the name of the constitutions of my country, State and Federal, in the name of the liberties of the people. I protest against any such scheme, structure, or military tyranny being devised and put upon foot by the Congress of the U.S. All that I ask now is, that this monster, with its great sharp claws sticking out, shall be subjected to the revision and the judgment of the courts of the country. But you seek to withdraw it from that revision, and you vote down every proposition that I make to subJect this monster to judicial revision and judgment. Y0ur object is to make it a lawless, ir responsible military tyranny. It is that in its provisions; it is that by your votes; it is that, as I will prove in the remarks that I intend to make upon the final passage of the bill, beyond all doubt.