ons, whether originating on the other side of the chamber
or on this side, appointing special committees. They are all
wrong. They are not founded, in my judgment, on a correct
principle. There is no necessity to raise a select committee for
this business. The standing committees of the Senate are ample to
do everything that it is proposed the select committee asked for
shall do. The only result of appointing more special committees
is to have just that many more clerks, just that much more
expense, just that many more committee-rooms. This is not the
first time I have opposed the raising of a select committee.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: The morning hour has expired, and it
requires unanimous consent for the senator from Georgia to
proceed with his remarks.

JANUARY 21, 1882.

Mr. HOAR: I move that the Senate proceed with the consideration
of the resolution.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: If there is no objection, unanimous
consent will be assumed.

Mr. FARLEY and others: I object.

Mr. HOAR: I move that the Senate proceed with the consideration
of the resolution.

Mr. SHERMAN: Let it be proceeded with informally, subject to the
call for other business.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: The question is on the motion of the
senator from Massachusetts. [Putting the question.] The Chair is
uncertain from the sound and will ask for a division.

The motion was agreed to; there being on a division--ayes 32,
noes 20.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: The resolution is before the Senate
and the senator from Georgia [Mr. Hill] has the floor.

Mr. HILL of Georgia: Mr. President, I do not intend to say one
word on the subject of woman suffrage. I shall not get into that
discussion which was alluded to by the senator from
Massachusetts. The senator will remember, if he refreshes his
recollection, that when my late colleague, now no longer a
senator, made a motion for the appointment of a select committee
in relation to the inter-oceanic canal, I opposed it distinctly,
though it came from my colleague, upon the ground that the
appointment of select committees ought to stop, that it was
wrong; and I oppose this resolution for the same reason. I voted
against a resolution to raise a s