St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-10
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
EustiS' Limitation OF Suffrage
Amendment Defeated.

Amendment Defeated.
WASHINGTON, April 9.-Senator ingalls,
(by request) introduced in the senate bill
to provide for the appointment Of board
Of arbitration to examine and settle differ
ences between railroad companies and their
employees. Hon. George Hearst of Califor-
mia was sworn in as a senator. Mr.. Frye
took the floor in support of his resolution
on the fisheries, urging that Great Britain
had always had the best of the United
States in regulating treaties and that this
government had never derived any benefit
from the treaty of Washington. Secretary
Bayard recommended joint commission
and he and the president had fallen into the
diplomatic trap of Mr.. West. Mr.. Morgan
said the president simply proposed negoti-
alton. The Washington Territory admis-
sion bill was then placed before the senate,
the pending question being on Mr.. Eusts'
proposed amendment limiting the right of
suffrage in the proposed new state to quail
ified male electors only. Mr.. Butler said
he would vote against the amendment. Mr..
Beck favored the amendment and spoke in
its support.
He would do everything in his power, he
said, to advance the condition Of woman,
but was not prepared to give them the right
was that the constitution prohibited any dis
elimination on account of race or color.
Senators could not give the right of suffrage
to the most
INTELLIGENT WOMAN
IN America without giving it to the most ig-
norant negro woman OF the South. He read
the provisions of the United States conSti-
tuition as to citizenship and naturalization,
and said they ought to apply in Washington
territory. Men who might he six months in
q territory and might have declared an inten-
tion to become citizens, which intention they
might abandon in O moment, were not the
class Of men who ought to be allowed to take
possession of great territory and frame its
constitution and fundamental laws.
Mr.. Teller said:
/ hardly expected that the senator from
Kentucky would have thrown any obstacles
in the way of people becoming citizens of the
United States. If that senator were now in
his own country doubt very much whether
he would be O 'home-ruler." doubt whether
Mr.. Beck would be in sympathy with the
struggling people of Ireland Or with the great
statesman who just made the world ring with
noble utterances in behalf of self-govern-
ment. Mr. Gladstone's speech was the great
est ever made on the subject to which it re-
lated, and made by probably the greatest man
of the age. Gladstone's words will live as
long as the English language lives. As to
woman suffrage, believe it would be one of
Mr.. Eustis said:
My amendment limiting the right of
suffrage to qualified male electors did not dis
franchise woman, because woman has no
right to vote to-day, so far as the purposes Of
the bill are concerned. When congress au-
thorlzed the formation of this territory it
liuited suffrage to male citizens.
Mr.. Butler-The limit was only male at the
first election under the territorial govern
ment.
THE ATMOSPHERE OF REFORM.
Mr.. Eustis-I am suspicious when I see
Republican unanimity on the question of ad-
mission of a state. / am aware that we are
now living in 8 very highly-scented atmos-
phere of reform. Laughter
Mr.. Edmunds (sotto voce)-Yes, very
highly scented, indeed. 1t "smells to heaven
Renewed laughter.
Mr.. Eustis-I know that under the sanity
leadership of the Eatonian school OF political
philosophy We are ceasing to be partisans,
and are to become reconciled to life of po-
ltical monasticism, but / will continue TO
have one failing, viz: In my humble way TO
be vigilant of the purposes, designs and craft
of the Republican leaders as 1 have endeav-
ored to do IN the past.
Mr.. Butler said:
If were to believe in woman suffrage and
had the power to confer 1t, I would be far
| from comforting it on all women. If, TOO, /
| had the power OF comforting manhood suff-
rage, wo uld be far from comforting 1t on all
men. / believe many OF the troubles of the
country have arisen, and will continue to
arise, from universal manhood suffrage.
| That form OF suffrage established by the re-
construction laws in the South, with almost
universal ignorance among the class exercis-
ing II, has kept the South long upon q vol
| cano.
A SENSIBLE CONCLUSION.
Mr., Voorhees, said:
am opposed to female suffrage, but regard
| It in this instance as a matter for the people
of Washington territory to settle for them
| selves. 1 think the time is coming, too,
| when the question of woman suffrage will
have to be faced squarley and inteligently.
Burke has said that statesmanship was the
science of circumstances, and circumstances
might hereafter arise when it would be not
merely policy. but craftsmanship to give
woman the ballot 1 do not think the time
ripe yet.
Mr.. Blackburn thought the bill as 1t stood
departure from the settled practice of the
| government. He favored Mr.. Eustis' amend