The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1878-01-18
TYRANTs IN COUNCIL.

lieving the legal disabilities Of women.
1t provides that any woman who shall
have been a member of the bar OF the
highest court Of any State or Territory,
or Of the Supreme Court Of the District
Of Columbia, three years in good stand
ing, and who is Of good moral character,
shall, on motion, and production Of the
record, be admitted to practice before
the United States Supreme Court. He
also submitted the following:
WHEREAS, Thousands of women Of the
United States have petitioned Congress for an
amendment 10 the Constitution allowing
women the right of suffrage; and.
WHEREAS, Many OF the representative wom-
en- Of the country favoring such amendment
are present in the city, and have requested 10
be heard before the Senate in advocacy Of such
amendment
Resolved, That a session Of the Senate be
holden that said representative women, or
such OF them as may be designated for that
purpose, may be heard before the Senate.
Objection made and resolution laid over.
Sargent said he knew there was much com
mittee work TO be done, and peoples business
might be expedited by such adjournment, but
he felt it his duty to oppose the motion, as he
desired 10 have the resolution submitted by
him this morning in regard 10 oallowing female
advocates OF "a Sixteenth Amendment 10 pre-
sent their arguments before the Senate consid-
cred tomorrow.
Thurman said the idea had been conveyed
that the ladies now making this application to
De heard by the Senate represented the women
OF the United States. He denied that they rep
rNeaufnn or ~ IL
the women Of the United States No doubt
they were worthy women, but one OF them
said, in convention at Lincoln Hall, that they
"intended 10 carry the Senate, by God" Maybe
they would, but it would be long after some old
fogies were out Of the chamber. Laughter I
He did not want it understood as wanting in
respect for these ladies; but he was free TO con-
Tess that a woman who sat at her hre-side and
took care Of her children was rather more re-
spectacle, in his mind, than the woman who
threatened TO ''carry the Senate, by God.r Il
was for the States 10 declare who should vote
in the States. Let them begin with Massachu-
sets.
After some further discussion Sargent moved
TO adjourn. Rejected 20 10 -
Question then occurred on Bayard's motion
70 adjourn over till Monday; reJected-yeas g,
nays IS.
Randolph then took the floor 10 address the
Senate on the silver question, but yielded 10
Edmunds, who said, as the ladies who desired
10 be heard by the Senate wished 10 know il
their petition would be granted, he withdrew
his objection 10 the present consideration OF
the resolution submitted by the Senator from
California Sargent this morning, allowing
them 10 appear before the Senate.
The resolution was then taken up, and Sar-
gent moved 10 nh the blank so as the Senate
should hold a session Saturday, January l2th
20 hear the advocates OF the Sixteenth Amend
ment, and that they should be allowed two
hours 70 present their views. Sargent said he
predicted that this assault upon the Senate, as
il had been called, was only the beginning OF
assaults upon Congress and state legislatures
In favor Of the Sixteenth Amendment. This
movement was spreading and growing more
troublesome year after year. He argued that
these ladies did represent the women OF the
country, and that they had been duly ap-
pointed by State conventions. The resolution
was then rejected.
Yeas-Anthony, Bruce, Burnside, Cameron
Of Wisconsin, Dawes, Terry, Hoar, Matthews,
Mitchell, Rollins, Sargent, Saunders, and
Teller; l2
Nays-Bayley, Bayard, Beck, Booth, Butler,
Christiancy, C0ckreIl, Coke, ConkIing, Davis
Of West Virginia, Eaton, Edmunds, Eustis,
Grover, Hamlin, Harris Hereford Hill, Howe.
Kirkwood, Lamar, Mcdonald, Mcmillan. Nc
Pherson, Aorgan, Plumb, Randolph. sauls-
bury Thurman, and wadleigh; 81.
The other day Beecher swore by the
Lord Jesus Christ that man who should
tell him there was such thing as eter-
nal punishment would make an Infidelof
him. Now, Senator Thurman has as
much moral right to disfranchise
Beecher as the woman who vowed by
the Lord Jehovah that she would be
heard in the Senate, provided, of course,
she did it, which we doubt. For we
have yet TO find a man afflicted with
mans rights rabies, as is Thurman or
Bradshaw, who can tell the truth upon
the subject that crazes him. The States
rights heresy that has already been so
badly exploded by the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments that it in no
way legally circumscribes the liberties of
the people of the United States. is al
ways appealed to by political tyrants,
just as the obsolete mans rights heresv
imputed to the Bible is appealed to by
pious tyrants in their determination TO
exercise an unwarrautable Jurisdiction
over the people who are governed with
out consent and taxed without repre-
sentation. Turn the thoughts of a man
who will make a speech like Thurman's
inside out, and you will prove, il you
watch his conduct closely, that he be-
lieves in woman only as his subject and
prostitute. To be, on the one hand, the
property of a man, as his wife, and on
the other the property Of many as their
mistress, taking from both all power to
act upon their inalienable responsible
ity, as to what may seem right to them
as individuals, is his natural conception
Of woman and her "respectability.n II
making speeches in the legislative halls
Of State and nation, which are only
mems halls by the usurpation Of a
power that is inherent in no class or
sex, wherein they discuss the woman
question from their standpoint. aud al
low the interested party no reply, if this
be the craftsmanship Of the nineteenth
century, the quicker the world is done
with it the better for humanity. To
deny that the representative women of
the country are such, when they are
sent up to legislate, albeit they are tied
hand and foot by the political tyranny