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Show ASSUMING A NEW PHASE. The Woman's Suffrage question is assuming a new phase. It is before Congress; and though the majority of the Judiciary Committe of the House reported aufavorably to the petition ol Mrs. Victoria Woodhull and others, Messrs. B. F. Butler and W." Lough-ridge, Lough-ridge, of the same committee, both keeu, shrewd, sound lawyers, have presented pre-sented a minority report that looks like putting a new faee on the matter. They sustain the theory advanced by some clever suffragists, that women are allowed to vote 'by the common law of England and by the 1-lth amendment amend-ment to the Constitution of the United States, without further statutory enactment. enact-ment. A deliberate opinion of such character, from ruch a source, carries weight with it. Only a few days ago the Herald remarked that the right of women to vote throughout the United States was only a question of time; that it might be one year, or two years, or more, but that it would come. There is little doubt that among the advocates of Woman's Suffrage there are those earnest ear-nest and clear-sighted enough to test this question at the ballot-box and in the courts. There may be found a way, and we believe under an act of Congress of last session relative to elections elec-tions it can be easily found, to bring the matter before the Supreme Court of the United States. Should that body decide that the 14th amendment confers suah aright the object is gained, and the female suffragists will become a Dower in politics which the male ' suffragist.- would do well to look out for. There will be changes, snre. What next? |