Mr. MORRILL. It will be seen, Mr. President, that the mayor informs the Senate of the U.S. that the corporation of Washington has held an election on this question of the elective franchise, and that at that election the qualified electors, the persons who were qualified to vote in the ordinary affairs of the corporation, its prudential concerns, have voted on this question of popular rights, and the mayor is pleased to say that there was unparalleled unanimity in that vote; and from the certificate of the election it would seem to be so. It would seem that out of all the votes cast, some 6,500, more or less, were opposed to the extension of the elective franchise, while only 30 or 40 were in favor of it. This the mayor calls ascertaining the opinions of the fo and this he ol. as an unparal eled expression of the people of this District in opposition to this bill] Now, Mr. President, I do not desire to say anything harsh or severe on that subject, but the enthusiasm of his honor the mayor in making this announcement to the Senate, and his self delusion in persuading himself that this election of the qualified electors is an expression of public opinion of the people of this District, allow me to say is only equaled by theingenuity of the device by which the electors of this District qualified to vote in its prudential affairs seek to foreclose a question of popular rights by voting it done at the polls over which they have the exclusive control. Certainly, Mr. President, these 6 or 7,000 voters who are said to have made this expression are only one in 30 at most of the people of this District, and it is very difficult to understand how there could be more significance or probative force attached to these 6 or 7,000 votes than to H an equal number of voices independent of the ballot, under the circumstances. I dismiss, then, this objection with the single remark, let it go for what it is worth, they vote upon a subject over which they have no juris diction whatever and in polls over which they have the exclusive control, shutting out every body who does not think as they think. And I may be permitted to add that it is remarka ble, nay, sir, it is astounding, that these peoR. seem to learn nothing by current events. bey do to learn the lesson of suba ssion to what is inevi evitable in our history Posident, my attention has been of a more general char Source. With the permission of the Senate I will send to the Clerk to be read an article which I take from one of the daily journals of this District, which was sent to me to attract my particular attention to the subject, understanding that this bill was to come before the Senate today, and comes to me marked so as to render the points no ticeable. I ask that the Clerk read it.