which was
under consideration yesterday.

Mr. INGALLS: What is the regular order?

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: There is no regular unfinished
business. The senator from Florida [Mr. Call] gave notice
yesterday that he would ask the indulgence of the Senate to-day
to consider the subject of homestead rights.

Mr. HOAR: I hope this matter may be disposed of. It is very
unpleasant to me to stand before the Senate in this way, taking
up its time with this matter in a five minutes' debate every day
in succession for an unlimited period of time. It is a matter
which every senator understands. It has nothing to do with the
merits of the woman suffrage question at all. It is a mere desire
on the part of these people to have a particular form of hearing,
which seems to me the most convenient for the Senate, and I hope
the Senate will be willing to vote on the resolution and let it
pass.

Mr. MORGAN: I have no objection to proceeding to the
consideration of the resolution, but I desire to address the
Senate upon it.

Mr. HOAR: I think I must ask now as a favor of the senator from
Alabama that he let the resolution be disposed of promptly.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: The senator from Alabama states that
he has no objection to the present consideration of the
resolution, but he asks leave to make some remarks upon it. The
Chair hearing no objection to the consideration of the
resolution, it is before the Senate.

Mr. FARLEY: I object to the consideration of the resolution.

Mr. HOAR: I move to take it up.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: The senator from Massachusetts calls
it up as a matter of right. If a majority of the Senate agree to
take up the resolution it is before the Senate, and the Chair
will put the question. The question is on agreeing to the motion
of the senator from Massachusetts to proceed to the consideration
of the resolution. [The motion was agreed to; and the Senate
resumed the consideration of the resolution reported from the
Committee on Rules by Mr. Hoar on the 13th instant, which was
read.]

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: The pending question is on the
motion of the senator from Delaware [Mr. Bayard] to refer the
subject to the Committee on the Judiciary, on which the yeas and
nays have been or