It is said that the suffrage is to be given to enlarge the sphere of woman's influence. Mr. President, it would destroy her influence. It would take her down from that pedestal where she is to-day, influencing as a mother the minds of her offspring, influencing by her gentle and kindly caress the action of her husband toward the good and pure. But I rise not to discuss this question, but to discharge a request. I know that when a man attacks this claim for woman suffrage he is sneered at and ridiculed as afraid to meet women in the contests for political honor and supremacy. If so, I oppose to the request of these ladies the arguments of their own sex; but first, I ask the Secretary to read a paper which has been sent to me with a request that I place it before the Senate. The Chief Clerk read as follows: _To the honorable Senate and House of Representatives_: We, the undersigned, respectfully remonstrate against the further extension of suffrage to women. H.P. Kidder. O.W. Peabody. R.M. Morse, jr. Charles A. Welch. Augustus Lowell. Francis Parkman, LL.D. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Edmund Dwight. Charles H. Dalton. Henry Lee. W. Endicott, jr. Samuel Wells. Hon. John Lowell. William G. Russell. John C. Ropes. Robert D. Smith. George A. Gardner. F. Haven, jr. W. Powell Mason. B.F. Stevens. Charles Marsh. Charles W. Eliot, president, Harvard University. Prof. C.F. Dunbar. Prof. J.P. Cook. Prof. J. Lovering. Prof. W.W. Goodwin. Prof. Francis Bowen. Prof. Wolcott Gibbs. Prof. F.J. Child. Prof. John Trowbridge. Prof. G.I. Goodale. Prof. J.B. Greenough. Prof. H.W. Torrey. Prof. J.H. Thayer. Prof. E.W. Gurney. Justin Winsor. H.W. Paine. Hon. W.E. Russell. James C. Fiske. George Putnam. C.A. Curtis. T. Jefferson Coolidge. T.K. Lothrop. Augustus P. Loring. W.F. Draper. George Draper. Francis Brooks. Rev. J.P. Bodfish, chancellor, Cathedral Holy Cross. Rt. Rev. B.H. Paddock, bishop of Massachusetts. Rev. Henry M. Dexter. Rev. H. Brooke Herford. Rev. O.B. Frothingham. Rev. Ellis Wendell. Rev. Geo. F. Staunton. Rev. A.H. Heath. Rev. W.H. Dowden. Rev. J.B. Seabury. Rev. C. Woodworth. Rev. Leonard K. Storrs. Rev. Howard N. Brown. Rev. Edward J. Young. Rev. Andrew P. Peabody. Rev. George Z. Gray. Rev. William Lawrence. Rev. E.H. Hall. Rev. Nicholas Hoppin. Rev. David G. Haskins. Rev. L.S. Crawford. Rev. J.I.T. Coolidge. Rev. Henry A. Hazen. Rev. F.H. Hedge. Rev. H.A. Parker. Rev. Asa Bullard. Rev. Alexander McKenzie. Rev. J.F. Spaulding. Rev. S.K. Lothrop. Rev. E. Osborne, S.S.J.E. Rev. Leighton Parks. Rev. H.W. Foote. Rev. Morton Dexter. Rev. David H. Brewer. Rev. Judson Smith. Rev. L.W. Shearman. Rev. Charles F. Dole. Rev. George M. Boynton. Rev. D.W. Waldron. Rev. John A. Hamilton. Rev. Isaac P. Langworthy. Rev. E.K. Alden. Rev. E.E. Strong. Rev. M.D. Bisbee. Rev. Oliver S. Dean. Henry Parkman. W.H. Sayward. Charles A. Cummings. Hon. S.C. Cobb. Sidney Bartlett. John C. Gray. Louis Brandeis. Hon. George G. Crocker. John Bartlett. John Fiske. J.T.G.