by, Pease, Robertson,
Schurz, Spencer, Stevenson, Stockton, and Thurman--27.

So the amendment was rejected.

The PRESIDING OFFICER.--The question now is on ordering the bill
to be engrossed for a third reading.

Mr. MORTON called for the yeas and nays; and they were ordered.

Mr. EDMUNDS.--I ask the chairman of the committee if the clause
still stands in the bill which authorizes all the male
inhabitants of that Territory to vote at the first election?

Mr. BOREMAN.--I think the Senator is mistaken about that.

Mr. EDMUNDS.--I am not asking whether I am mistaken or not; I am
asking if the clause remains as it stood reported by the
committee?

Mr. BOREMAN.--Yes, sir.

Mr. EDMUNDS.--That is enough for me.

Mr. RAMSEY.--There is nothing new in that.

The question being taken by yeas and nays, resulted--yeas 19,
nays 29; as follows:

YEAS--Messrs. Bogy, Boreman, Chandler, Clayton, Ferry of
Michigan, Flanagan, Harvey, Hitchcock, Jones, Kelly, Logan,
Mitchell, Patterson, Pratt, Ramsey, Sherman, Tipton,
Wadleigh, and Windom--19.

NAYS--Messrs. Anthony, Bayard, Boutwell, Buckingham,
Carpenter, Conkling, Conover, Davis, Edmunds, Frelinghuysen,
Gilbert, Hager, Hamilton of Maryland, Ingalls, Johnson,
McCreery, Merrimon, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont,
Norwood, Ransom, Sargent, Saulsbury, Scott, Sprague,
Stewart, Washburn, West, and Wright--29.

ABSENT--Messrs. Alcorn, Allison, Brownlow, Cameron, Cooper,
Cragin, Dennis, Dorsey, Fenton, Ferry of Connecticut,
Golthwaite, Gordon, Hamilton of Texas, Hamlin, Howe, Lewis,
Morton, Oglesby, Pease, Robertson, Schurz, Spencer,
Stevenson, Stockton, and Thurman--25.

So the bill was rejected.

Though the measure was lost, and the women sad under repeated
disappointments, yet the progress was noted with gratitude. In 1866
only nine Senators voted in favor of woman's enfranchisement after a
three days' discussion of the measure. In 1874, after eight years of
education, nineteen voted aye to the proposition.

The seventh Washington Convention was held January 14th and 15th,
1875, in Lincoln Hall as usual. Mrs. Stanton opened the proceedings by
stating that owing to the death of the President of the association,
Martha C. Wright,