s bill. When it was
first introduced, it is doubtful if one-fourth the members of
congress would have voted for it. Some of the strong-minded
women, who were interested in the bill, stuck to it, held the
fort from day to day, and talked members and senators into
believing it a just measure. Senator McDonald gave Mr. Edmunds a
rebuff yesterday that he will not soon forget. The latter
attempted to administer a rebuke to the Indiana senator for
calling up a bill during the absence of the senator who had
reported it. Mr. McDonald retorted that he knew the objection of
the senator from Vermont was made for the purpose of defeating
the bill and not, as pretended, to give an absent senator
opportunity to speak upon it.--[Washington _Post_, February 8.

The credit for this victory belongs to Mrs. Belva Lockwood, of
this city, who, having been refused admission to the bar of the
United States Supreme Court, appealed to congress, and by dint of
hard work has finally succeeded in having her bill passed by both
houses. She called on Mrs. Hayes last evening, who complimented
her upon her achievement, and informed her that she had sent a
bouquet to Senator Hoar, in token of his efforts in behalf of the
bill.--[Washington _Star_, February 8.

The bill was carried through merely by the energetic advocacy of
Senators McDonald, Sargent and Hoar, whose oratorical efforts
were reenforced by the presence of Mrs. Lockwood. After the
struggle was over, all the senators who advocated the bill were
made the recipients of bouquets, while the three senators whose
names we have given received large baskets of flowers. This is a
pleasing omen of that purification of legal business which it is
hoped will flow from the introduction of women to the courts. It
was not flowers that used to be distributed at Washington and
Albany in the old corrupt times, among legislators, in testimony
of gratitude for their votes. Let us hope that venal legislation
at Washington will be extirpated by the rise of this beautiful
custom.--[New York _Nation_.

It was noticeable that all the presidential candidates dodged the
issue except Senator Blaine, who voted for the bill.--[Chicago
_Inter-Ocean_.

How humiliated poor old Judge Magruder must feel, since the
congress of the Unit