Mr. WADE. Nothing more need be said about taxation, for that is not in the amendment I have offered. It was in the printed copy I 1st submitted; but on consideration I struck that out, thinking the amendment would be better without it, more acceptable to the Senate, and certainly more acceptable to my self. As to the suggestion of the Senfrom Massachusetts thatt eword “property” should be stricken out I will say that there is no member of the Senate more opposed to making a property qualification for voting than I am. never would vote for it nor submit to it if I could help it. But it is presented here only as one of those alternatives which the States may adopt. Some of them have adopted it before, and may do so again. It is only to be left 0tional with them to do this and other things. O do not recommend that they should do it; we do not recommend even an educational basis; we simply present the matter to the States. As a general thing the bias of my mind 1 is entirely in favor of free suffrage to every. man who is subject to the laws, in the languaget of Madison. That is the principle which won d government if the matter were left to me; but i we are now legislating with regard to the States, giving them a right to fix this matter for themselves. If the State of which I am a member, where I could reach it, should undertake to prescribe a property qualification, you would find me opposed to it all the time. I am not very averse 1 to an amendment of my proposition which shall I strike out the word “ propert." I simply thought it would be as well to cave that matter to the States and not to restrict their representation if they should adopt a property qualification up lied to all, giving e as suffrage, making no O pass discrimination. am not very much opposed to striking out the word “ property;” should not like to lose a vote for my amendment on that account, although I did not suppose it was placed in my amendment in such a position as to subject me to the suspicion of being in favor of the property qualification. If the Senate is opposed) to it, am perfectly willing that that word shall lie stricken out, as I think it can be without mutilating in amendment. I now move that the amendment be printed in the form in which I have submitted it. The motion was agreed to.