cities, as a man has; and, as to the question of capacity,
the history of the world shows from Queen Elizabeth and Queen
Isabella down to Madame Dudevant and Mrs. Stowe, that capacity is
not a question of sex.

Mr. MCDONALD: I have simply to say, Mr. President, that a number
of States and territories have authorized the admission of women
to the legal profession, and they have become members of the bar
of the highest courts of judicature. It may very frequently
occur, and has in some instances I believe really occurred, that
cases in which they have been thus employed have been brought to
the Supreme Court of the United States. To have the door closed
against them when the cause is brought here, not by them, or when
in the prosecution of the suits of their clients they find it
necessary to come here, seems to me entirely unjust. I therefore
favor the bill with the amendment. The proposed amendment is
perhaps better because it does away with any tendency to
discrimination in regard to the admissibility of women to
practice in the Supreme Court.

The PRESIDING OFFICER: The senator from California moves that the
bill be recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary.

Mr. SARGENT: I have the promise of the chairman of the committee
that the bill will soon be reported back, and therefore I am
willing that it go to the committee, and I make the motion that
it be recommitted. [The motion was agreed to.]

Mr. SARGENT: I ask that the amendment which I propose be printed.

The PRESIDING OFFICER: The order to print will be made.

Mary Clemmer, the gifted correspondent of the New York
_Independent_, learning that Senator Wadleigh was about to report
adversely upon the sixteenth amendment, wrote the following private
letter, which, as a record of her own sentiments on the question,
she gave to Miss Anthony for publication in this history:

Hon. BAINBRIDGE WADLEIGH--_Dear Sir_: The more I think of it the
more I regret that, as chairman of the Committee on Privileges
and Elections, you regard with less favor the enfranchisement of
women than did your distinguished predecessor, Senator Morton. At
this moment, when your committee is discussing that subject, I
sigh for the large outlook, the just mind, the unselfish decision
of that great legislator. You were his friend, you re