em only as other citizens would desire to be treated
before a body of this character. I am, therefore, opposed to the
reference of the proposition to the Judiciary Committee, and I
hope the Senate will give these ladies a special committee where
they can be heard, and that that committee may be so organized as
that it will be as favorable to their views as possible, so that
they may have a fair hearing. That is all I desire to say.

Mr. MORRILL: I hope this subject will be concluded this morning,
otherwise it is to come up constantly and monopolize all the time
of the morning hour. I do not think it will require many minutes
more to dispose of it now.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: The Chair will entertain a motion on
that subject.

Mr. MORRILL: I move to set aside other business until this
resolution shall be disposed of. If it should continue any length
of time of course I would withdraw the suggestion.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: The senator from Vermont--

Mr. VOORHEES: Mr. President, I feel constrained to call for the
regular order.

DECEMBER 19, 1881.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: Are there further "concurrent or
other resolutions"?

Mr. HOAR: I call up the resolution in regard to woman suffrage,
reported by me from the Committee on Rules.

Mr. JONES of Florida: I ask for information how long the morning
hour is to extend?

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: The regular business of the morning
hour is closed. The morning hour, however, will not expire until
twenty minutes past one. The senator from Massachusetts asks to
have taken up the resolution reported by him from the Committee
on Rules.

Mr. HOAR: I hope we may have a vote on the resolution this
morning.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: The question is on the amendment
proposed by the senator from Delaware [Mr. Bayard], that the
subject be referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Mr. HOAR: It is not intended by the resolution to commit the
Senate, or any senator in the slightest degree to any opinion
upon the question of woman suffrage, but it is merely the
question of a convenient mode of hearing. I hope we shall be
allowed to have a vote on the resolution.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: Is the Se