The loyal Georgian., 1866-02-03

the approval of the committee; the Others
have not If voters alone should be
made the the foundation of representation
the actual ratio would vary infinitely.
tine State might let women and minors
vote Another might require only ten
days residence if voter were otherwise
qualified. Another might extend suffer
to aliens. Another would lead to strife
of unb'idled suffera'e Ifsufferage were
coufned to male voters of twenty one
years of age and upward, great inequali-
ties would arise California NAV let her
Chine>e and halfbreeds vote; Oregon
her Indians, and any State its aliens.
But with uniform State legislation this
plan would create injustice toward the
States in which women outnumber men,
and from which young men 90 out to
more boundless fields But New Eng
land would not loose single represeDta~
tive, either by making white men or all
men over twenty one the basis of appor
tionment. Other inequalities would ex
ist, which Mr. Conkling mentioned in
detail. The second proposition touched
upon the princp pie of rightful sovereignty
aud denies to the people of the several
States the right to regulate their own
affairs in their own way. 1t NEEDLES
with right res rved to the States when
the Constitution was. adopted, and to
which they will long cling before they
surrenderit. Besides most of the North.
ern States do not permit negrnes to vote
and it would be futile to ask tbree>fourths
of the States to do for themselves and
all others by ratifying such an amend
ment the very thing which most of them
have refused to do in their own cases
The third proposition avoids as far as the
case admits all the objections of the other
two. 1t contains but one condirien, and
that rests upon a principle already EN-.
bodied in the Constitution, as old as free
government, viz: That representation
does not belong to those who have not
political existence, but only to those have
Every State will be left free to extend
or withdraw the franchise as it pleases,
impartislly or to all, aud this without
losing anything in representation. In
any State so long as race Gun be found
which is so low, so bad, so ignorant, or so
stupid that it is deemed necessary to px-
clude men f'om the right to vote merely
because they belong to that race, in such
case, the race shall likewise be excluded
from the sum Of Federal power to which
that State is entitled. The proposition
thus provides for representation co.
extensive with taxation. 1t brings into
the basis both sexes and all ages, and so
it counteractS and awards, as far as posi-.
BILE, the casual geographical Inequalities
of p pulatlon. 1t puts every State on
an equal footing in the requirements pres
scribed, and leaves every State unfetter-
ed to enumerate all its people for repre-
sentation just as it pleases. If suffrage
is confned as it is now. taking the census
of 1860 as the foundation of the calcula-
tion, and the number OF representatives
it then stood, Wisconsin, Indiana, Hi
nois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Mas
sachuset s. New Jersey and Maine would
gain one representative each, and New
York would gain three Alabama, Ken
lucky, North Carolina, South Carolina
and Tennessee would each lose one.
Georgia, Louisiana and Virginia would
each lcse two; while Mississippi would lose
three In answer to the argument that
citizens of the United States and not
persons should be the basis OF repre-
sentation aud apportionment, it may be
said that the present Constitution is and
always was opposed to this suggestion
that it would narrow the basis of taxa
tion and cause considerable inequalities,
and that many of the large States, which
are to pass upon the Amendment, now
hold the representation in part by reason
of their aliens.
The joiut resolution was ordered to be
printed and on motion of Mr.. Stevens,
was made the special order Tor to MOI row.
The highest inhabited place on the
globe is the Post house at Ancomarco, in
Peru, which is nearly sixteen thousand
feet above the sea.
The Quebec bakers are forbidden to
sell anything except stale bread, the
medical faculty having decided that new
bread promotes cholera.
A man who was noticed to be driving
quite slowly, near Boonsboro', Iowa, the
other uight, was found, though tightly
graspipg his lines, to be frozen to death.
The Commissioner Of Internal Reve-
nue. recently decided that authority has
been given TO imprint the initials aud
date in ink upon stamps, 1t stead Of writ
ing them.
Congress talks of repeating the intern
al revenue tax on paper, aud all Bibles,
Testaments and other religious works
and school books used in colleges aud