A few weeks later Congress scored another victory over the President, one which did much toward wiping out the defeats of February 19th and 21st. It passed another Freedmen's Bureau Bill, and then repassed it July 16th, over the President's veto. This bill was framed with the purpose in view of avoiding those features of the bill, successfully vetoed by the President on February 19th preceding, {88} which had influenced certain Republicans to sustain the President's veto. The differences between the two measures consisted in the following points. The first bill had no definite time limit; the second would expire in two years from the date of its passage. The first bill vested jurisdiction in the Freedmen's Bureau over the civil rights of freedmen and refugees in all parts of the United States. The second vested the bureau with jurisdiction over loyal refugees and freedmen without mention of place. The first vested a most sweeping power in the Bureau to give all kinds of aid and support to the destitute refugees and freedmen. The second contained only the more moderate provision of the original law of March 3d, 1865, on that subject. Finally the first gave the Bureau jurisdiction over the civil rights of freedmen and refugees, not only when the deprivation of them was the consequence of rebellion, but when it was effected by _any local law_, ordinance, police regulation or other regulation. The second, on the contrary, limited the jurisdiction of the Bureau to those cases where the deprivation was the consequence of rebellion. [Sidenote: The veto of the measure.] The President could not, however, see much difference between them. He claimed that his objections to the first bill were valid against the second. The second measure, he contended, was only a war measure for a definite period, in a time of peace. It was the prolongation for a definite time of military jurisdiction over civil matters, when the civil courts both "State" and Union were open and in the unhindered discharge of their business. And he held the ground that Congress had no more constitutional power to create, or perpetuate, military jurisdiction over civil matters for a definite period in time of peace than for an indefinite period. He referred to the fact that the Civil Rights measure, just passed over his veto, met all {89} the points provided for in the Freedmen's Bureau bill, and affirmed that all of the provisions of that law would be executed by him through ordinary civil means, in so far as they should not be repealed by Congress or declared unconstitutional by the courts. [Sidenote: Correctness of the President's views.]