[4] The bill proposed did not allow self-government as to the control of conception, but only physician-government. The person applying could get instruction only if the doctor chose to give it, not otherwise. [5] These States present a knotty legal question as to whether the repeal of the Federal prohibition relating to the mails will automatically make these State laws void. Legal opinion (as expressed by Attorneys Alfred Hayes and James F. Morton, Jr.) seems to agree that the Federal action will probably be effective, but there is authority for the assumption that under the State law police power might withhold such supposedly undesirable mail from the recipient. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Inconsistent hyphenations have been left as is. Unmatched quotation marks have been left as printed. Double quotation marks occurring within a passage within double quotation marks have been left as printed. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. Page vi. “sponsor—Cummins-Kissell” replaced by “sponsor—Cummins-Kissel”. Page vii. “Doctor’s Only” replaced by “Doctors Only”. Page 15. “physican” replaced by “physician”. Page 36. “pornagraphic” replaced by “pornographic”. Page 37. “putrefying sores,”“ replaced by ““putrefying sores,””. Page 42. “it seem” replaced by “it seems”. Page 43. “instinctly acting” replaced by “instinctively acting”. Page 50. The word “crime” is enclosed in double quotation marks, an extra single quotation mark has been removed. Page 52. “Recive” replaced by “Receive”. Page 55. “weaklies” replaced by “weeklies”. Page 66. “park that flamed” replaced by “spark that flamed”. Page 85. “may protests” replaced by “many protests”. Page 92. “State legislatlon” replaced by “State legislation”. Page 94. “Cummins-Kissell” replaced by “Cummins-Kissel”. Page 94. “every one against:” replaced by “every one against.”. Page 105. “these pople” replaced by “these people”. Page 117. “from heresay” replaced by “from hearsay”. Page 123. “hearings analagous” replaced by “hearings analogous”. Page 146. “Mrs. Dennet” replaced by “Mrs. Dennett”. Page 158. “giving exerpts” replaced by “giving excerpts”. Page 160. “this subjest” replaced by “this subject”. Page 181. “seeems to prevent” replaced by “seems to prevent”. Page 184. “member of Congress” replaced by “members of Congress”. Page 198. “sex conciousness” replaced by “sex consciousness”. Page 248. “the the principle” replaced by “the principle”. Page 251. “substracting errors” replaced by “subtracting errors”. Page 252. “scorn of pretentions” replaced by “scorn of pretensions”. Page 265. “Cortlandt Palmer” replaced by “Courtlandt Palmer”. Page 301.