-night upon this proposition, and I therefore rise to propose
an adjournment.

Mr. MORRILL: Perhaps we can get a vote on this simple amendment.

Mr. BROWN and others: Oh, no; let us adjourn.

Mr. MORRILL: I doubt whether there is any inclination to talk
further on this amendment, and I should be glad to get a vote on
it before we adjourn.

Mr. CONNESS: If the Senate will come to a vote, I will not move
an adjournment.

Mr. BROWN: Mr. President----

Mr. DOOLITTLE: If the honorable Senator from Missouri will give
way, I will renew the motion to adjourn.

Mr. BROWN: I do not care particularly to detain the Senate. I
have but a very few remarks to make.

Several SENATORS: Let us adjourn.

Mr. DOOLITTLE: If the honorable Senator will give way, I will
renew the motion to adjourn.

The PRESIDENT _pro tem._: Does the Chair understand the Senator
from Missouri as yielding the floor?

Mr. BROWN: Yes, sir.

Mr. DOOLITTLE: I move that the Senate do now adjourn.

The motion was agreed to; and the Senate adjourned.

In SENATE, WEDNESDAY, _December 12, 1866_.

Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. E. H. Gray.

The Journal of yesterday was read and approved.

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.

The PRESIDENT _pro tem._: The Chair has received, and takes this
opportunity to lay before the Senate, the memorial of William
Boyd, of Washington City, District of Columbia, the substance of
which, stated in his own words, is:

I humbly ask your Honorable Body that you make no
distinctions in regard to either color or sex if you should
think proper to extend the elective franchise in this
District, which I beg of your Honorable Body to do
immediately; so that hereafter there shall be no distinction
of race or sex. I am among those who believe that slavery
will never die, until all laws are so constructed as to hold
all mankind as equal before the law.

SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT.

The PRESIDENT _pro tem._: The unfinished business is the bill (S.
No. 1) to regulate the elective franchise in the District of
Columbia which is now before the Senate as in Committee of the
Whole. The pending question is on the motion of the Senator from
Pennsylvania [Mr. Cowan], to amend