Mr. MOULTON. The remarks that I made in connection with this matter were made for this purpose: I say that the right to marry is not strictly a right at all, because it rests in contract alone between the individuals, and no other person has a right to contract it. It is not a right in any legal or technical sense at all. No one man has any right to marry any woman he leases. If there was a lawmaking that a civil right, then it might be termed a civil rignt. in the sense in which it is used here. But there being no law in any State to that effect, I insilt We an nifiiiaga is not a” t, as contemplated by the provisions of this bill. Now, let me call the attention of this House to one or 2 other remarks of the Gentfrom Illinois, [Mr. MARSHALL] He alludes to the condition of the negro in the State of Illinois, and says that this bureau might operate there. In in humble judgment, it would be impossible for this bureau to operate there, for these reasons: in the 1st place, the ordinary course of judicial proceedings have never been interrupted in our State; and in the 2nd place, there is now no law upon our statutebook discriminating between the whites and the blacks other than the constitutional provision relating suffrage. At the last session of our legislature they swept from our statutebooks all those odious black laws making discrimination between the whites and the blacks, so that today "in the State of Illinois a black man can now give testimony in our courts; a black man can make contracts; a black man can purchase and hold it and transmit it as he leapserosp. er]?, e can come into and go out of the: State at pleas ure. such is the condition of. the law in the State of Illinois today, and therefore it is not possible this bureau could o erate in Illinois. But the distin uished entiiaman from Illinois Mmsnnni. says this bill makes the bureau perpetual. He says that it may last always, and that there is no knowing how long it will continue or who may be appointed. Permit me to say that any State in this Union can terminate the Operation of the law within its own limits whenever it chooses to do so; it is entirely within its own power to do so. Let me refer to the 8th section of this bill to show that fact. It contains, among other provisions, the following: v The jurisdiction conferredb this and the receding section on the officers an agents of his uroau shall ceaseand deteriniiip wheneverthe discrimination on accouutoiwhich it is conferredeauses and in no pvent to be exercised in any State in which the ordinary course of Judicial proceedingshasnot been interrupted by the rebellion, norin anysuchStateaflor said State shall have beenfull restoredin all its constitutional relations to the U.S and the courts of the States and of the U.S. within the sameare not disturbed or stopped in the peace able course of Justice. This bill, then, expressly provides for the cessation of this bureau in any State. It puts it in the power of any State in this Union to exclude it from its limits by ceasing to make unnatural discriminations betWeen their own citizens. It seems to me that there is no objection upon that score.Another objection is urged, that this bill ives the Government power to o into any of these States and appropriate public lands and distrib ute them among the freedmen and among the refu ees. Is not that the constitutional power of the Government now? It is a power that has been exercised by this Government from its very foundation the providing homesteads for the indigent and the poor of our country. It has always been exercised by the Government and I am in favor of this bill because itseeksto appropriate, in the 1st place, the public lands, and then to acquire lands by purchase in anyone of these States from anyone who desires to sell, in case the Government wants it. That is all there is about it. Now, sir, my distinguished colleague [Mr. MARSHALL] assumed, as I understood. thatt are is no difference between the State of Tennessee and the State of Illinois with reference to their right of representation upon this floor, except that the Doorkeeper excludes those who claim seats as Representatives from Tennessee, while the Representatives from Illinois are admitted; and I understood him by inference to aliirm that the other southern States are as much entitled to representation on this floor as Illinois or any other State. Did I understand my friend cormtly?