The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: The Chair lays before the Senate the
resolution of the senator from Massachusetts [Mr. Hoar].

The Senate resumed the consideration of the resolution reported
from the Committee on Rules by Mr. Hoar on the 13th instant.

The PRESIDENT _pro tempore_: The Chair would state to the senator
from Missouri [Mr. Vest] that the Chair supposed yesterday that
he had finished his remarks, or the Chair would not have stopped
him at that moment. The question is on agreeing to the
resolution, on which the senator from Missouri [Mr. Vest] is
entitled to the floor.

Mr. VEST: Mr. President, I was on the eve of finishing my remarks
yesterday when the morning hour expired, and I do not now wish to
detain the Senate. I was about to say at that time that the
Senate now has forty-one committees, with a small army of
messengers and clerks, one-half of whom, without exaggeration,
are literally without employment. I shall not pretend to specify
the committees of this body which have not one single bill,
resolution, or proposition of any sort pending before them, and
have not had for months. I am very well aware that if I should
name one of them, Liberty would lie bleeding in the streets at
once, and that committee would become the most important on the
list of committees of the Senate. I shall not venture to do that.
I am informed by the Sergeant-at-arms that if this resolution is
adopted he must have six additional messengers to be added to
that body of ornamental employes who now stand or sit at the
doors of the respective committee-rooms. I have heard that this
committee is for the purpose of giving a committee to a senator
in this body. I have heard the statement made, but I cannot
believe it, and I am very certain that no senator will undertake
to champion the resolution upon any such ground.

The senator from Massachusetts was pleased to say that the
Committee on the Judiciary had so many important questions
pending before it, that the subject of woman suffrage should not
be added to them. The Committee on Territories is open to any
complaint or suggestion by the ladies who advocate woman
suffrage, in regard to this subject in the territories; and the
Committee on Privileges and Elections to which this subject
should go mo