Mr. Henderson felt obliged to move his amendment as a substitute for the counter proposition of Mr. Sumner in order to compel a vote upon it.
If the question were submitted in any State to-day whether, for instance, all who did not pay taxes should be disfranchised, and only taxpayers were allowed to vote upon it, it would be carried by a large majority.
Charles Bogardus managed the bill in the Senate, but was not able to secure a vote upon it.
In presenting her Miss Anthony said: "The right of taxpaying women in Louisiana to vote upon questions of taxation is practically the first shred of suffrage which those of any Southern State have secured, and they have used it well.
Upon constitutional ground he was against continuing a direct tax longer than two years; every Congress ought to pass a vote upon it; but, in the present instance, he believed the law would be best if passed for one year.
Why, then, ought the House now to refer them, when even the gentleman from South Carolina says he is not prepared to vote for them; but that if he were called upon now to vote upon them, he should give his negative on the question?
I wish to vote upon it understandingly, and I want some information from the committee which has had it in charge.
I can not consent, so long as I can postpone this question by the rules of the Senate, to have a vote upon it to-night.
I do not feel quite willing to vote upon Kentucky, for instance, a law that I am not willing to have applicable to the State of Illinois, if such a state of facts exists as that the law can operate in Illinois.
The third of these franchises confers the right to vote upon a man who occupies lodgings of the value, unfurnished, of ten pounds a year.
I suppose that those who had it in charge did not venture to invite a vote upon it.
Let it be read at the table, and every Senator will understand it, and will be ready to vote upon it without argument.
In consequence of the opinions I have heard expressed regarding the resolutions which I brought forward at our last meeting, I feel constrained to say that I am not disposed to ask the Congress to proceed to a vote upon them.
As regards the fact that there may be great differences of opinion concerning the questions which remain for our consideration, I am unable to see in it any reason for our not proceeding to vote upon them.
By adjourning till to-morrow he thought that the delegates would have an opportunity to reflect upon the subject, and to come back prepared to vote upon it.
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