Mr. FOSTER. In reply to the honorable Senator, I will state that I have heard the question asked before the board repeatedly, whether the applicant was a man of good moral character. The question is not universally asked, but I have known testimony to be taken up on the subject. The provision is not a dead letter in our constitution, although I repeat we do admitmen unfortunately who are not really fit men, as we break the Maine law, which we derive from the honorable Senator's State. It is against the law of our State to sell intoxicating beverages, but I admit, and I regret to admit, that the law is broken, shamefully broken; but still I believe it exercises a valuable restraint in many sections of the State. My honorable friend on my right [Mr. CRESWELL] asks how it is as to men who become immoral, vicious, after they once have been admitted to the list of voters. In regard to them, I may say that unless convicted by a court of a crime which makes them infamous, they are not excluded. The tribunal which admits electors and administers the freeman's oath is not empowered to try the question of a man's good moral character after he has once been admitted. That can only be passed upon by a court. If he is convicted of an offense for which an infamous punishment is affixed, he is then disqualified and can no longer vote. I say then, Mr. President, that if I needed anyapology, which I do not, for insisting upon intelligence and morality as a qualification for voters, I should have the example of my own State, which I always take pride in quoting, to sustain my action. The honorable Senfrom Massachusetts, it seems, was in 1857 opposed to the adoption of this test by his State. But when the State of Connecticut as late as 1855, and the State of Massachusetts as late as 1857, have made this a test for the qualification of voters in those several Commonwealths, I do think that I, at least, am called upon to sustain a qualification such as we here propose to this bill. With that I can cheerfully give the bill my support; without Iit, confess I shall not be able to vote for the bill.