s of our action
before consenting to change this government. A regard for
the genius of our institutions, for the fundamental
principles of American autonomy, and for the immutable
principles of right and justice, will not permit me to
sanction this change.

These reasons for declining to give my consent to the bill,
I submit with all deference for the consideration and
judgment of your honorable body.

J. A. CAMPBELL.

The Republicans in the House made an ineffectual effort to
sustain the veto, but the party whip and the power of the saloons
were too strong for them, and the bill was passed over the veto
by a vote of 9 to 4. It met a different and better fate, however,
in the Council, where it was sustained by a vote of 4 to 5, a
strict party vote in each case. Mr. Corlett, a rising young
lawyer, at that time in the Council and since then a delegate in
congress, made an able defense of the suffrage act and resisted
its repeal, sustaining the veto with much skill and final
success. And there was much need, for the Democrats had made
overtures to one of the Republican members of the Council (they
lacked one vote) and had obtained a promise from him to vote
against the veto; but Mr. Corlett, finding out the fraud in
season, reclaimed the fallen Republican and saved the law. It is
due to Mr. Corlett to say that he has always been an able and
consistent supporter of woman's rights and universal suffrage. He
is now the leading lawyer of the territory.

Since that time the suffrage act has grown rapidly in popular
favor, and has never been made a party question. The leading men
of both parties, seeing its beneficial action, have given it an
unqualified approval; and most, if not all, of its former
enemies have become its friends and advocates. Most of the new
settlers in the territory, though coming here with impressions or
prejudices against it, soon learn to respect its operation, and
admire its beneficial results. There is nowhere in the territory
a voice raised against it, and it would be impossible to get up a
party for its repeal.

The women uniformly vote at all our elections, and are exerting
every year a more potent influence over the character o