onnection with
this case. Civil rights, social rights, political rights,
religious rights, all are bound up in the consideration of a
measure like this. In its consideration you cannot safely attempt
to segregate this question and leave it untouched and
uninfluenced by all those other questions by which it is
surrounded and in the consideration of which it is bound to be
connected and concerned. Therefore, without going further,
prematurely, into a discussion of the merits of the proposition
itself or its desirability, I say that it should take the usual
course which the practice and laws of this body have given to
grave public questions. Let it go to the Committee on the
Judiciary, and let them, under their sense of duty, deal with it
according to its gravity and importance, and if it be here
returned let it be passed upon by the grave deliberations of the
Senate itself. I hope the special committee proposed will not be
raised, and I trust the Senate will concur with me in thinking
that the subject should be sent to the Committee on the
Judiciary.

Mr. LOGAN rose.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: The morning hour has expired.

Mr. LOGAN: I want to say just one word.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: It requires unanimous consent.

Mr. LOGAN: I do not wish to make a speech; I merely desire to say
a word in response to what the senator from Delaware [Mr. Bayard]
has said in relation to the reference to the Judiciary Committee.

Mr. HARRIS: I ask unanimous consent that the senator from
Illinois may proceed.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: There being no objection unanimous
consent will be presumed to have been given for the senator from
Illinois to make his explanation.

Mr. LOGAN: This question having been once before the Judiciary
Committee, and it being a request by many ladies, who are
citizens of the United States just as we are, that they should
have a special committee of the Senate before which they can be
heard, I deem it proper and right, without any committal whatever
in reference to my own views, that they should have that
committee. It is nothing but fair, just, and right that they
should have a committee organized as nearly as can be in the
Senate in favor of the views they desire to present. It is
treating th