College.—­Average rank for fall term of the junior year on the scale of 40.—­1882:  boys 37.75, girls 37.93; 1883:  boys 38.03, girls 38.70; 1884:  boys 38.18, girls 88.59; 1885; boys 38.33, girls 38.13.

With only this last exception the average of the girls and young ladies in the high schools and at this institution of liberal training is substantially higher than that of the boys.  I simply give that fact in passing, and there leave the matter.

I desire in closing simply to call for the reading of the joint resolution.  I could say nothing to quicken the sense of the Senate on the importance of the question about to be taken.  It concerns one-half of our countrymen, one-half of the citizens of the United States, but it is more than that, Mr. President.  This question is radical, and it concerns the condition of the whole human race.  I believe that in the agitation of this question lies the fate of republican government, and in that of republican government lies the fate of mankind.  I ask for the reading of the joint resolution.

The PRESIDING OFFICER.  The joint resolution is before the Senate as in Committee of the Whole.  It has been read.  Does the Senator desire to have it read again?

Mr. BLAIR.  Has it been read this afternoon?

The PRESIDING OFFICER.  It has been.

Mr. BLAIR.  That is all then.  Now, I wish to have printed in the RECORD, by reason of the printed matter that has gone into the RECORD upon the other side, the arguments of Miss Anthony and her associates before the Senate committee, which is out of print as a document.  These arguments are very terse and brief.  I think it only just that woman, who is most interested, should be heard, at least under the circumstances when she has herself been heard on the other side through printed matter.  It will not be burdensome to the RECORD, and I ask that this be done.

The PRESIDING OFFICER.  The Chair hears no objection to the suggestion. 
The document will be printed in the RECORD.

The document is as follows: 

    ARGUMENTS BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE, UNITED
    STATES SENATE, MARCH 7, 1884.

By a committee of the Sixteenth Annual Washington Convention of the National Woman Suffrage Association, in favor of a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, that shall protect the right of women citizens to vote in the several States of the Union.

    Order of proceeding.

    The CHAIRMAN (Senator COCKRELL).  We have allotted the time to be
    divided as the speakers may desire among themselves.  We are now
    ready to hear the ladies.