rning the times, places, and manner of holding
elections.

Laid on the table and ordered to be printed.

Now let the work of petitioning and agitating for this amendment
be prosecuted with a vigor and energy unknown before. And let
Senator Pomeroy be honored with receiving and presenting to the
Senate such a deluge of names as shall convince him that his
noble step in the direction of a true democracy, is appreciated;
and such too as shall be a rebuke to all half-way measures that
would leave woman (white and colored) behind the colored male;
and moreover, that shall convince Congress and the whole
government that we can be trifled with no longer on a subject so
vital to the peace, prosperity, and perpetuity of our own people,
and the establishment of free institutions among the nations of
the earth.

CONGRESS WIDE AWAKE.--Last week we gave good account of Mr.
Julian, of Indiana, on behalf of suffrage for woman. This week we
can report similar progress in the Senate also. The following is
Senator Wilson's bill to amend an act entitled an act to regulate
the elective franchise in the District of Columbia:

Be it enacted, etc., That the word "male" in the first
section of the act entitled "An act to regulate the elective
franchise in the District of Columbia, passed on the 8th day
of January, 1867," be struck out, and that every word in
said act applicable to persons of the male sex shall apply
equally to persons of the female sex, so that hereafter
women, who are inhabitants of the said District of Columbia
and citizens of the United States, may vote at all elections
and be eligible to civil offices in said District on the
same terms and conditions in all respects as men.

Mr. Julian, in the House, on leave, introduced the following bill
further to extend the right of suffrage in the District of
Columbia:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That
from and after the passage of this act the right of suffrage
in the District of Columbia shall be based upon citizenship;
and all citizens of the United States, native and
naturalized, resident in said District, who are twenty-