Mr. WILLIAMS. I desire to ask the honorable Senfrom Illinois one question in reference to this proposed amendment. What elfect will it have upon the original section? Does it enlarge the powers and rights conferred and enumerated in that section, or does it restrict them? If it enlarges them, how and to what extent? "it restricts them, in what re. spect? May it not be thatihis proposed amendment will produce no practical good, while it v will excite prejudice and hostility to the bill? The proposed amendment under lnkesw declare that certain persons shall be citizens. excluding another class of persons; but the original bill provides that all the inhabitants of every State and Territory in the U.S shall possees certain rights, which are enumerated in the section, and comprehend, as it seems to me, all the civil rights that belong to acitizen. Now. if a bill is passed by Congress conferring upon all the inhabitants of every State and Territory all the civil rights that belong to acitizen, what necessity is there for declaring that a certain class of)ersons shall be citizens, excluding another c ass? I simplydesircto know whether this proposed amendment is to change the meaning and effect of the original bill or not; and if it is to change it, I desire to know in what respect it will accomplish that change; and then I can Vote understandingly upon the amendment. I Wish to say one word 11 on the remarks submitted by the Senfrom issouri, asalso upon 1866., 573 the remark submitted by the Senfrom Kansas. There are Indians in the States and territories of the U.S. outside of Kansas. There are 1,000s of Indians in the State of Oregon. They are generally collected upon reservations. Some of these Indians are there by virtue of treaties; some are there in consequence of the Indian wars that have occurred from time to time in that country; and they are there, and held there by compulsion. The Government of the U.S. feeds, clothes, and takes care of these Indians, treats them as wards treats them as incapableof self government; and they are governed by such rules and regulations as are prescribed by the Government from time to time, and as the necessities of the case seem to require.