its, a knowledge in fact, not a
knowledge falsely imputed by law to a party not possessing it in
fact, as the judge in this case has held. Crimes can not, either
in law or in morals, be established by judicial falsehood. If
there be any crime in the case, your petitioner humbly insists it
is to be found in such an adjudication.

To the decision of the judge upon the question of the right of
your petitioner to vote, she makes no complaint. It was a
question properly belonging to the court to decide, was fully and
fairly submitted to the judge, and of his decision, whether right
or wrong, your petitioner is well aware she can not here
complain. But in regard to her conviction of crime, which she
insists, for the reasons above given, was in violation of the
principles of the common law, of common morality, of the statute
under which she was charged, and of the Constitution--a crime of
which she was as innocent as the judge by whom she was
convicted--she respectfully asks, inasmuch as the law has
provided no means of reviewing the decisions of the judge, or of
correcting his errors, that the fine imposed upon your petitioner
be remitted, as an expression of the sense of this high tribunal
that her conviction was unjust.

Dated January 12, 1874. SUSAN B. ANTHONY.

In the Senate of the United States, June 20, 1874, Mr. Edmunds
submitted the following report:

_The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the bill_
(S. 391) _to enable Susan B. Anthony to pay a fine imposed upon
her by the District Court for the Northern District of New York,
and a petition praying for the remission of said fine, report:_

That they are not satisfied that the action of the Court was such
as represented in the petition, and that, if it were so, the
Senate could not legally take any action in the premises, and
move that the Committee be discharged from the further
consideration of the petition, and that the bill be postponed
indefinitely.

Mr. Carpenter asked, and obtained, leave of the Senate to present the
following as the views of the minority:

_The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the
memorial of_ SUSAN B. ANTHONY, _praying to be relieved from a
certain judgment, rendered against her by the Circuit Court of
the Un