Mr. WILSON, of Iowa. I rise, Mr. Speaker, simply to finish what I desired to say when the hammer fell as I was addressing the House before, and for the pay so, also, of giving the Gentfrom NewYork [Mr. RAYMOND] an opportunity to submit anything in reply that he may desire. I undertook, when I was on the floor before, to show that the remark the gentleman made today in justification of his vote against the civil rights bill was not in harmony with his action as a member of the House in the intro duction of a bill guarantyin the rights of citizens without distinction of race or color, and also in submittin to the House a proposition, which I read to the House, for the benefit of the freedmen. w. I stated that I could not see that the position taken today was consistent with that presented by the bill and the proposition to which I rell fen ed, for iteems to me that the 2nd sectionof the bill, as I have stated before, and the proposition to which I referred, embodied the principle of the 1st section of the civil rights bill. I was about to remark, when in time expired, that if the gentleman intened his explanation to up ly only to those portions of the civil rights iiill which succeeded the 1st section, it might raise another question, namely, whether, after declaring all persons born in the U.S. citizens and entitled to all the rights and privileges of citizens, it would be competent or the Government of the U.S. to enforce and protect the rights thus conferred, or thus declared by the 2nd section of the bill which the gentleman introduced. Now, as I understand his remark today, it was directed to the principle involved in the 1st section of the civil rights bill which related to the rights to be protected by the provisions of that bill. That being conceded, the power to protect those rights must necessarily ollow as was laid down in the well known case of Prigg vs. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where the Supreme Court declared that the possession of the right carries with it the power to provide a remedy. Now, sir, it seemed to me that there was an inconsistency between that record and the explanation of today, and as I do not wish to, do the entle man any injustice in this regard, I yieId part of my time now for expla nation.