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LEGISLATIVE REPORT ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS.

_The Register_, ALBANY, _March, 1856_.

Mr. Foote, from the Judiciary Committee, made a report on Women's
Rights that set the whole House in roars of laughter:

"The Committee is composed of married and single gentlemen. The
bachelors on the Committee, with becoming diffidence, have left
the subject pretty much to the married gentlemen. They have
considered it with the aid of the light they have before them and
the experience married life has given them. Thus aided, they are
enabled to state that the ladies always have the best place and
choicest titbit at the table. They have the best seat in the
cars, carriages, and sleighs; the warmest place in the winter,
and the coolest place in the summer. They have their choice on
which side of the bed they will lie, front or back. A lady's
dress costs three times as much as that of a gentleman; and, at
the present time, with the prevailing fashion, one lady occupies
three times as much space in the world as a gentleman.

"It has thus appeared to the married gentlemen of your Committee,
being a majority (the bachelors being silent for the reason
mentioned, and also probably for the further reason that they are
still suitors for the favors of the gentler sex), that, if there
is any inequality or oppression in the case, the gentlemen are
the sufferers. They, however, have presented no petitions for
redress; having, doubtless, made up their minds to yield to an
inevitable destiny.

"On the whole, the Committee have concluded to recommend no
measure, except that as they have observed several instances in
which husband and wife have both signed the same petition. In
such case, they would recommend the parties to apply for a law
authorizing them to change dresses, so that the husband may wear
petticoats, and the wife the breeches, and thus indicate to their
neighbors and the public the true relation in which they stand to
each other."

ASSEMBLY--WOMEN'S RIGHTS.

Mr. PRENDERGAST presented several petitions asking for an
extension of Women's Rights. Mr. P. stated that undoubtedly the
Judiciary was the proper Committee to receive these petitions;
but the petitioners had signified to him that