Mr. DOOLITTLE. I moved this amendment because it seems to me very clear that there is a large mass of the Indian population who are clearly subject to the jurisdiction of, the U.S. who ought not to be included as citizens of the U.S. All the Indians upon reservations within the several States are most clearly subject to our jurisdiction, both civil and military. We appoint civil agents who have a control over them in behalf of the Government. We have our military commanders in the neighborhood of the reservations, who have complete control. For instance, there are 7 or 8,000 Navajoes at this moment under the control of General Carlton, in NewMexico, upon the Indian reservations, managed, controlled, fed at the excnse of the U.S., and fed I doubt whether it is an actions within our bounds insubordination and moted and on ie spirit ofation of law, proraged by rebellion hero, affected 118, argely that large numbers ofI "I not say respectable southern people, nd I will not say that it was confined to them alone but large numbers of persons turned out upon the public highways, so that robbery was so common upon the highways, particularly in the interior and in the mountains of that State, that it was not wondered at, but the wonder was for anybody that traveled on the highways to escape robbery. The Chinese were robbed with impunity, for if a white man was not present no one could testify against the offender. They were robbed and plundered and murdered, and no matter how many of them were present and saw the perpetrntion of those acts, punishment could not follow, for they were not allowed to testify. Now, sir, I am very glad indeed that We have determined at length that every human being may relate what he heard and saw in a court of law when it, is required of him, and that our jurors are regarded as of sufficient intelli gence to put the right value and construction upon what is state. So much for what has been said in connection with the application of this revision to the State that I in art represent ere. I beg my honorable friendfrom Pennsylvania to give himself no further trouble on account of the Chinese in California or on the Pacific coast. We are fully aware of the nature of that class of people and their influence among us, and feel entirely able to take care of them and to provide against any evils that may flow from down, caught a few of them, and caused them by the or Dept, managed by the War to be han d, not recognizing the commi lteoart. at a cost to this Government sion of Jo Davis for those ind s of a most a million and a half of dollars every car. Because it is managed by the War Dept, paid out of the commissary fund an out of the appropriations for Quartermasters' stores, the people do not realize the enormous expense which is upon their hands. Are these 6 or 7,000 Navajoes to be made citizens of the U.S.? Go into the State of Kansas, and you find there any number of reservations, Indians in all stages, from the wild Indian of the plains, who lives on nothing but the meat of the buffalo, to those Indians who are artially civilized and have partially adopted tchabits of civilized life. So it is in other States. In my own State there are the Chippewas, the remnants of the winnebagoes, an the Pottawatomies. There are tribes in the State of Minnesota and other States of the Union. Are these persons to be regarded as citizens of the U.S., and by a constitutional amendmentdcclared to be such, because the are born Within the U.S and subject to our jurisdiction? Mr. President, the word “citizen, ” if to them would bring in all the Digger Ianppilaieiids of california. Perhaps they have most] disappeared; the people of California, pertaps, have put them out of the way; but here are the Indians of Oregon and the Indians of the Territories. Take Colorado; there are more Indian citizens of Colorado than there are white citizens this moment if you admit it as a State. And yet by a constitutional amendment you propose to declare the Utes, the Tabahuaches, and all those wild Indians to be citizens of the U.S., the great Republic of the world, whose citizenship should title as proud as that of king, and whose danger is that ou may degrade that citizenship. Mr. President, citizenship, if conferred, carries with it, as a matter of course the rights, the responsibilities, the duties, the immunities, the privileges of citizens, for that is the very object of this constitutional amendment to extend. I do not intend to address the senate at length on this question now. I have simpl raised the question. I think that it would be exceeding y unwise not to adopt this amendment and to put in the Constitution of the U.S. the broad language proposed. Our fathers certainly did not act in this way, for in the Constitution as they adopted it they excluded the Indians who are not taxed; did not enumerate them, indeed, as a part of the population upon which they based representation and taxation; much less did they make them citizens of the U.S. Mr. President, before the subject of the constitutional amendment passes entirely from the Senate, I may desire to avail myself of the opportunity to address the body more at length; but now I simply direct what I have to say to the precise point contained in the amendment which I have submitted.