DOI: 10.7910/dvn/7jv4no
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1903, H 1132 adopted resolutions, SC1/series 230, Petition of Wallace Spooner

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: World Legislature &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950568"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25950568&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Massachusetts &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: L.W. Caldwell, Alban St., Dorchester, Mass.; Benjamin C. Dean, Brookline; committee on federal relations &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wallace Spooner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;H.G. Brooke&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;J. William Abbott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas P. Knightley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gertrude F. Daley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary A. Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Delia J. Watson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Victoria Patterson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Catharine E. Cunningham&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nanna Haas&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bessie Adams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Alice Glancey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James E. Burke&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph A. Haley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James D. Gordon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mabel G. Pinkham&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Grace Churchill&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas R. Speller&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Karl J. Cedergreen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel McFarland&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Laura Stackhouse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Leona Fuller&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Miriam A. Ling&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cora B. Lawrence&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Herman Handler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John P. Abbott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1903-02-09,1903-02-09 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 9, 1903 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 9, 1903 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 58 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 19 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 25 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 14 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["others"] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Printed &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Signatory column format: not column separated &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: congress of the United States, president, international congress, treaties, legislative body to serve all mankind, race, towns next to names including Chelsea, Boston, Cambridge, Arlington, Medford, South Boston, Somerville, Roxbury, Cambridgeport, West End, Dorchester, Everett, Malden, Jamaica Plain, Brighton, ["We regard the union of the sovereign states of the United States of America as a fitting illustration of the possible union of the sovereign nations into the recognized body politic of mankind. As the several sovereign states voluntarily relinquished certain of their claims of sovereignty and thus realized a higher political unity, so a grander union of mankind than is possible by international treaties will be realized when the nations, surrendering their claims of sovereignty in such respects as shall be found necessary and practicable, come formally into the unity in which they already exist by the very laws of their being."] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1903, H 1132 adopted resolutions &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.&lt;/p&gt;