at free government has anywhere failed,
can only claim that this tends to prove, not the failure of
universal suffrage, but the failure of masculine suffrage. Like
failure has attended the operation of every other great human
institution, the family, the school, the church, whenever woman
has not been permitted to contribute to it her full share. As to
the best example of the perfect family, the perfect school, the
perfect church, the love, the purity, the truth of woman are
essential, so they are equally essential to the perfect example
of the self-governing State.

GEO. F. HOAR,
JOHN H. MITCHELL,
ANGUS CAMERON.

Thousands of copies of this report were published and franked to
every part of the country. On February 7, just one week after the
presentation of the able minority report, the bill allowing women
to practice before the Supreme Court passed the Senate[47] and
received the signature of President Hayes. Senators McDonald, Hoar
and Sargent made the principal speeches. We give Mr. Hoar's speech
in full because of its terse and vigorous presentation of the fact
that congress is a body superior to the Supreme Court of the United
States. Mr. Hoar said:

_Mr. President_--I understand the brief statement which was made,
I think, during this last session by the majority of the
Judiciary Committee in support of their opposition to this bill,
did not disclose that the majority of that committee were opposed
to permitting women to engage in the practice of law or to be
admitted to practice it in the Supreme Court of the United
States, but the point they made, was that the legislation of the
United States left to the Supreme Court the power of determining
by rule who should be admitted to practice before that tribunal,
and that we ought not by legislation to undertake to interfere
with its rules. Now, with the greatest respect for that tribunal,
I conceive that the law-making and not the law-expounding power
in this government ought to determine the question what class of
citizens shall be clothed with the office of the advocate. I
believe that leaving to the Supreme Court by rule to determine
the qualifications or disqualifications of attorneys and
counselors