CONORESS-EIBST SESSION. moan or TBSTERD./.1 0 8 PROOE3DING.S. BENATE.-Mr. Grimes offered a resolution giving the thanks of Congress to Rear Ad miral Farragut and his officers and men for gallant conduct in the engagement in Mobile Bay, August sth, 1864. Referred to the Naval Committee. Mr. Trumbull called up the bill to protect all persons in the enjoyment of their civil rights, and to furnish the means of their vindication. It provides that there shall be no discrimination in civil rights or immu nities among the inhabitants of any State or Territory of the United States on account of race, color, or previous condition of slavery, but the inhabitants, of every race and color, 'without regard to any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly con "noted, shall have the same right to make "and entOrce contracts, to sue, be parties and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal pro perty, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, and shall be subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other; any law, sta tute, ordinance, regulation or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. The remainder of the bill prescribes punishments for viola tion of the above provision by fine and im prisonment. Mr. Trumbull offered the following amendment, to be inserted immediately afterthat enacting anise in the first sec tion : That all persons of African descent, • born in the United States, are hereby de clared to be citizens of the United States. At half-past three,pthe Senate, on motion