jewel!"

The following resolution introduced into the Senate, January 11, by
Mr. Morgan of Alabama, was finally referred to the Committee on
Woman Suffrage. This was the first subject brought before them for
action.

_Resolved_, That the committee on "The extension of suffrage
to women, or the removal of their disabilities," be directed
to examine into the state of the law regulating the right of
suffrage in the territory of Utah, and report a bill to set
aside and annul any law or laws enacted by the legislature
of said territory conferring upon women the right of
suffrage.

Miss Couzins made an admirable speech on the following resolution:

_Resolved_, That Senator Morgan's bill to deprive the
_women_ of Utah of the right of suffrage because of the
social institutions and religious faith originated and
maintained by the _men_ of the territory, is a travesty on
common justice. While the wife has not absolute possession
of even one husband, and the husband has many wives, surely
the men and not the women, if either, should be deprived of
the suffrage.

Miss COUZINS said: The task of dealing fairly and justly with
this territorial complication should never be committed to the
blundering legislation of man alone. His success as a legislator
and executive for woman in the past does not inspire a confidence
that in this most serious problem he will be any the less an
unbiased judge and law-giver. This government of men permitted
the establishment of a religious colony, so called, whose basis
of faith was the complete humiliation of women; recognized the
system by appointing its chief, Brigham Young, governor of the
territory, under whose fostering care polygamy grew to its
present proportions.

That woman has not thrown off the yoke of religious despotism can
be readily appreciated when we recognize the fact that man, from
time immemorial, has played upon her religious faith to exalt his
own attributes and degrade hers; that through this teaching her
abiding belief in his superior capacity to interpret scriptural
truths for her has been the means of sacrificing her power of
mind, her tender affections, her delicate sensibilities, on the
altar of his base selfishness througho