Mr. HALE. The gentleman will excuse” from answering that question, for the go he uts is not the case the House is conside”. What is the character of that governmentwho the powers are lodged in the hands of theo or of one man, is by no means the ques". before us. But it seems to me preppster.” claim that a State of this Union, which lio or restricts the right of suffrage in the manne; and to the extent which the almost unio and unbroken practice of the States and Federal Government from the adoption of the Constitution has sanctioned, has not a RFG within the meaning of the Constitution. Let me put the question back to the distinguished Gentfrom Pennsylvania. Is that a RFG, according to his theory, in which 100 male citizens of full age may vote and 100 female citizens of equal intelligence and equal qualification in every other respect cannot vote? We have always recognized the doctrine that the right of suffrage might be limited. We recognize it today. I trust we shall never fail to do so, and also to recognize the doctrine that under our Constitution this whole question ought to remain where the Constitution puts it, in the control of the States themselves and not of the Federal Government. I have already gone further than I intended in the discussion of this question. My purpose when I rose was simply to appeal to gentlemen on this side of the House, and who are disposed to support the principle now laid down by the Gentfrom Massachusetts, [Mr. BogT well, or to support any qualification of this kind, not to 2nd the demand for the previous question, but to give an opportunity to gentlemen who wish to discusss it to be heard. And I do it more particularly because the mine irty in this House has had no opportunity to be heard on this question. I certainly think on a question of such importance as this it would be an act of orp., to deprive them of that opportunity. I beg leave to remind gentlemen that although we are in a great majority here, while it may be excellent “To have a giant's strength, yet it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.” I certainly hope the previous question will not be 2nded until a fair opportunity is af. forded for discussion.