you will, by the law and parliamentary rules of your committee, allow us to agitate this question by publishing this report and the report which you shall make upon our petitions, as I hope you will make a report.  If your committee is so pressed with business that it can not possibly consider and report upon this question, I wish some of you would make a motion on the floor of the Senate that a special committee be appointed to take the whole question of the enfranchisement of women into consideration, and that that committee shall have nothing else to do.  This off-year of politics, when there is nothing to do but to try how not to do it (politically, I mean, I am not speaking personally), is the best time you can have to consider the question of woman suffrage, and I ask you to use your influence with the Senate to have it specially attended to this year.  Do not make us come here thirty years longer.  It is twelve years since the first time I came before a Senate committee.  I said then to Charles Sumner, if I could make the honorable Senator from Massachusetts believe that I feel the degradation and the humiliation of disfranchisement precisely as he would if his fellows had adjudged him incompetent from any cause whatever from having his opinion counted at the ballot-box we should have our right to vote in the twinkling of an eye.

    REMARKS BY MRS. SARA A. SPENCER, OF WASHINGTON.

Mrs. SPENCER.  Congress printed 10,000 copies of its proceedings concerning the memorial services of a dead man, Professor Henry.  It cost me three months of hard work to have 3,000 copies of our arguments last year before the Committee on Privileges and Elections printed for 10,000,000 living women.  I ask that the committee will have printed 10,000 copies of this report.

The CHAIRMAN.  The committee have no power to order the printing.  That can only be done by the order of the Senate.  A resolution can be offered to that effect in the Senate.  I have only to say, ladies, that you will admit that we have listened to you with great attention, and I can certainly say with very great interest.  What you have said will be duly and earnestly considered by the committee.

Mrs. WALLACE.  I wish to make just one remark in reference to what Senator Thurman said as to the popular vote being against woman suffrage.  The popular vote is against it, but not the popular voice.  Owing to the temperance agitation in the last six years the growth of the suffrage sentiment among the wives and mothers of this nation has largely increased.

    Mrs. SPENCER.  In behalf of the women of the United States, permit
    me to thank the Senate Judiciary Committee for their respectful,
    courteous, and close attention.

Mr. HOAR.  Mr. President, I do not propose to make a speech at this late hour of the day; it would be cruel to the Senate; and I had not expected that this measure would be here this afternoon.  I was absent on a public duty and came in just at the close of the speech of my honorable friend from Missouri [Mr. VEST].  I wish, however, to say one word in regard to what seemed to be the burden of his speech.