The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-03-31
Telsgraphic.-EorsIgn News.

Foreign News. rs, :, j;
HAVANA, March 3Q-The balance Of the
counterfeiters of Spanish bank notes
arrested, and $50 600 counterfeits seized.
PARIS, March 29.-The Duke De Mont
pensier, having applied to the Marquis
De Moline, the Spanish Ambassador, for
to grant it. The reason alleged for the
refusal was, That if passport was given
to the Duke, eX-Queen Isabella would
deem herself equally entitled to one, and
the Madrid Government considered her
return to Spain inopportune.
The funeral of Guinct took plnce, to-
day. Victor Hugo and Gambetta de-
livered orations at the grave. The crowd
wrS immense, and there was some dis
order.
An official decree hns been promul-
gated, prohibiting the importation into
Fmnce Of American potatoes, or of sacks
or barrels previously used in packing
them. The object is to prevent the in
LONDON, March 3O.-S128.O 900 in spe-
Gle was sent to New York.
MADRID, March 30.-General Concha.
late Captain General of Cuba, has ad-
dressed petition to the King, accusing
General Jovellar, his predecessor in the
Captain -Generalcy, and now Minister of
War, of being the cause of the lack of
discipline in the Spanish army on that
island; also censuring the conduct of
Gen. Jovellar rs Minister Of War The
petition has created profound sensation;
the newspapers are compelled to main
tain silence in regard to it.
egraphic.-.American News.
WASHINGTON, March 29.-In the case
OF Miner rs. Hoffersntt, from Missouri, IL
suit brought by Mrs. Miner to test her
right to vote, the Supreme Court, to-day,
delivered the following decision: This is
the case presenting the question whe-
ther, under the fourteenth amendment,
\ woman who is q citizen of the United
States and of State is n voter in the
State, Notwithstanding the fact that the
provisions of the Constitution md laws
of that State contine the right of suffrage
to men alone. It is said thnt women nre
citizens; they are persons, and, therefore,
under the fourteenth amendment, de-
clared to be citizens Of the State wherein
they reside. But it did not require that
amendment to make them suoh. They
were before persons and people, and
were not in terms excluded from citizen
ship by the Constitution. The Federal
Constitution was ordained by the people
OF the United States, composed of the
people of the several States, and who
eyer, at the time Of its adoption, was one
of the people became q citizen. All
children born of citizen parents, within
the jurisdiction, are themselves citizens
The naturalization laws are reviewed to
snow that women have always been con-
Sldered citizens the same as men. Also
the laws giving jurisdiction in Feden,l
cases. It is then said that the fourteenth
amendment did not affect the citizenship
OF women any more than it did that Of
men, and thus minors rights do not de-
pend on it. She has always been q citi-
zen from her birth, and entitled to all
the privileges, immunities, &C., of citi-
zenship. The amendment prohibited
the State in which she lives from abridg-
ing any OF those rights. The right Of
suffrage is not made in terms one of the
privileges of the citizen. The United
States has no voters, and no one can vote
for Federal officer without being COM
petent to vote for State officers. The
elective officers Of the United States are
chosen directly or indirectly by the
voters of the States. The amendment
did not add to the privileges or immnni-
ties of the citizen. It simply furnished
an additional guarantee for the protection
of such as he already had. Now, is the
right of suffrage co-extensive with the
citizenship of the State? When tho Pede-
raj Constitution was adopted all the
States but Rhode Island had Constitu-
tions of their own, in not one Of which
were all citizens recognized rs entitled
to this right Under all these circum-
stances, it cannot be for moment
doubted that if it had been intended
to mako all citizens of the United States
voters, the powers of the Constitution
would have so expressed that intention,
and not have left SO important change
in the condition Of citizenship, AZ it then
existed, to implication. But if further
evidence is needed, it is to be found in
other provisions of the Constitution. II
suffrage is necessarily part of citizen
ship, then that provision of the Constitu-
tion which gives citizens of each State nil
the privileges and immunities of citizens
In tho several States, would entitle the
citizens of each State to the right to vote
IN the several States precisely as the citi-
zens OF those States. Other provisions
among them, that relating to the appor-
tionment Of presentatives-were cited
to the same point But still, again, after
the adoption of the fourteenth amend
ment, it was found necessary to use in
the fifteenth amendment the following
Languages: 'The right of citizens of the
United States to vote shall not be denied
or abridged by the United States, or by
any State, on account of race, color or
previous condition of servitude." The
fourteenth amendment had provided
against any abridGeme ent of the nri rivileoaa