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Show ! ; HIE CONSIIU'IIOWI.IIV or IT. I W The facetlouamaa dliplaynl by eome I if? ' ot our cotemporarlM In dealing with Aft the subject of Mrs. I.eaio'a eenatorlal I JP ai Iratlona la puerile In some casea, In- fj UlUerently humorous lu others and r, I iult funny In c lew. The fact Is, the ,ff I question has never before been brought i V aerloualy to the ptople'a attention, and i S they were cousiuently unprepared for I 'S It; II was thought, and In a good many 'J; coin hopid, that with the extrclseof X) aullrage the women of tin. laud woulj I be satisfied, but It Ilea j that they or ' f& some of them lira beginning to under II stand, If tbey have uot all along douo ; V so, that the right to hold olllco li a ; :- corollary of the right tjvotoaud they . K , might us well "pull" for the whole I figure while they are about It. Une.of the papers published ,ln n community where probably the people ure eailly aillilleJ, aud oue or two evidently located where mmo nort of rciJnlng Ins tu be resorted to, have been seriously considering tho onst. lutlonallt) of tho inte, and arrived at uonclusloui In ujuh luitunoj that Mrs. Lease cannot go to the tiinnte. To demonstrate this they appeal to tho Junttltutlou Itself, which, roftrrlug to the quullllcatlom of a seuator, ays "he" must be thua und so, the duiao. Hull belug uuuouucej with ao uiiiih ul a flourish of trumpets ni uiutuuuJ lulaelesstypeare capable of that, If the grtat Uiarter had meant or IntcndoJ tu Include "she" It would luvo said su, the sumo tiling so easily said, This Is, peihapt, as fuuny as uuythlug that has )et bien printed, and that, too, without Intending to be ao. If tho gentlemen of the fratornlty would only go a little further lu tuilr legal renarohei and road upon the ttatuUa or even tho onlluanoM of their rupecth e locsllllc s,w guirauteo that they wojIJ llnd here and there a bictlou forblddlug the lomuilsilou of nitaln acts, tho lonnlty for vlolitl.ju Ulng that "he" shall bo llnoJ, or "he" shall tie Imprlsonid, or Iwtli; und If the (dlmder haj peucd to hea "he"nouU they make that a plea I u her behalf? llurdly. i'aylng taxci und suirsrlng ' punlshiainl for thv violation of ligal tntctmunts are two of the pilvllegus common to mankind from which wouunkliui are uot debarred; and , 'be luiiuaUiuce of "she" frum the ('unstltiitl'iu Mull eciruelr lx con filleted at Of mtteh ronie-tnoc? In flgurlugau Mrs. Iieate'a chaueds for a statin IheUenate. Ilut there la belter authority than comparison an I precedent. If our Journalistic friends will take up their evidently neglected I'lnnnoor .Murray (of course they have them) and turn to the chapter ougenler, they will there be Informed that thn masculine la tho common wherever nccs'ry, ao that the words "hr," "him" an "Ills" cmbrnconnJ luoluds "ehe,""hir"aud "hers" If the lubject requires It; this Is uot only a gratunullcsl ruin but n very convenient one, In that It avolla redundancy and makes It unneoeaiary lobe Wearily apecldu. Wa do not think then la nnythliu lu IhoConatlhillou, or out of It extent death, Mo'ines or the Katun Icglslt. lure, that can keep Mrs. Lena awny from t'ic upper house of the rutlunal Iigltlature id membir thereof; nud jet w nronot prepared to believe thut she will over look upon the Interior of hat place unless It be as a epecUtor. |