May 10th, Mr. Sumner introduced another Supplementary Civil Rights Bill, being his original bill with such verbal changes and emendations as had occurred during its protracted consideration, and the bill was placed on the calendar of the Senate without reference to a committee. * * * * * May 21st, the Senate having under consideration a bill to extend the provisions of the Enforcement Act in the Southern States, known as the Ku-Klux Act, and entering upon a “night session” in order to pass the bill, Mr. Sumner, who was an invalid, contrary to his habit left the Chamber. In the early morning the bill was passed, when the Senate, on motion of Mr. Carpenter, of Wisconsin, took up Mr. Sumner’s Civil Rights Bill, and, striking out all after the enacting clause, inserted a substitute, imperfect in machinery, and with no allusion to schools, institutions of learning, churches, cemeteries, juries, or the word “white.” The bill thus changed passed the Senate in Mr. Sumner’s absence. Meanwhile Mr. Spencer, of Alabama, had moved an adjournment, saying, “It is unfair and unjust to take a vote upon this bill during the absence of the Senator from Massachusetts.… I insist on the motion to adjourn, as the Senator from Massachusetts is not here.” The motion was rejected. A messenger from the Senate informed Mr. Sumner of the effort making, and he hurried to the Chamber; but the bill had been already acted on, and another Amnesty Bill on the calendar taken up, on motion of Mr. Robertson, of South Carolina, and pressed to a final vote. Mr. Sumner arrived in season to protest against this measure, unless associated with Equal Rights. At the first opportunity after reaching his seat, he said:-- MR. PRESIDENT, I understand that in my absence, and without any notice to me from any quarter, the Senate have adopted an emasculated Civil Rights Bill, with at least two essential safeguards wanting,--one concerning the Common Schools, and the other concerning Juries. The original bill contains both, and more; and I now ask the Senate, most solemnly, to consider whether, while decreeing equal rights for all in the land, they will say that those equal rights shall not prevail in the common school and in the jury. Such I understand to have been the vote of the Senate. What will ensue, should it be confirmed by the other House? The spirit of Caste will receive new sanction in the education of children; justice will find a new impediment in the jury.