Several SENATORS: Let us adjourn. Mr. DOOLITTLE: If the honorable Senator will give way, I will renew the motion to adjourn. The PRESIDENT _pro tem._: Does the Chair understand the Senator from Missouri as yielding the floor? Mr. BROWN: Yes, sir. Mr. DOOLITTLE: I move that the Senate do now adjourn. The motion was agreed to; and the Senate adjourned. In SENATE, WEDNESDAY, _December 12, 1866_. Prayer by the Chaplain, Rev. E. H. Gray. The Journal of yesterday was read and approved. PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS. The PRESIDENT _pro tem._: The Chair has received, and takes this opportunity to lay before the Senate, the memorial of William Boyd, of Washington City, District of Columbia, the substance of which, stated in his own words, is: I humbly ask your Honorable Body that you make no distinctions in regard to either color or sex if you should think proper to extend the elective franchise in this District, which I beg of your Honorable Body to do immediately; so that hereafter there shall be no distinction of race or sex. I am among those who believe that slavery will never die, until all laws are so constructed as to hold all mankind as equal before the law. SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT. The PRESIDENT _pro tem._: The unfinished business is the bill (S. No. 1) to regulate the elective franchise in the District of Columbia which is now before the Senate as in Committee of the Whole. The pending question is on the motion of the Senator from Pennsylvania [Mr. Cowan], to amend the amendment reported by the Committee on the District of Columbia, by striking out in the second line of its first section the word "male" before "person." Upon this question the Senator from Missouri is entitled to the floor.