FEMALE SUFFRAGE.
Mr. WILLIAMS offered an order, which was adobted, that Senators be invited to meet with members of the House of Representatives, in the Hall of the House, at 3 o'clock this afternoon, to hear the address and memorial of certain ladies entrusted therewith, on the subject of female suffrage.
Mr. WILLIAMS introduced a bill [H. R. 135] for an act to amend section 5 of the act to amend sections 18, 24, 25, 26 of the act regulating descents and the apportionment of estates, approved May 14, 1852, and adding a supplemental section to the act of March 4, 1853. [Upon the decease of the husband or the wife, personal estate shall descend alike to the widower and widow.]