Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-04
SUSAN b. ANTHONY TALKS.

How She Changed the Vote of the House
She Denies Having a POOdIe-HOw
Arthur Squeezed Her Hand.
Susan B. Anthony, says Washington
special of the 31st ult., was asked to-day
by a reporter if she expected that the
Senate would pass the resolution for
sixteenth amendment comforting the fran
chise upon women.
,'Oh! dear, no." she said, ''there is too
much President making this session, and
| fear they won't even get it up for con-
sderatiOn until next session. Senator
Lapham told me to-day that he was ready
to make speech on the resolution, but it
is way down on the calendar. They have
treated us very handsomely and we ought
to be thankful for what we have got
| call it a long step forward to get a
! resolution of the kind before the Senate.
The committee stood four to three. Sena-
tors Palmer of Michigan, Anthony of
Rhode Island, Blair of New Hampshire
and Lapham of New York were for us.
and COckrell of Missouri, Brown of
Georgia and Fair of California were
against us. The majority are going to
give us good report, and are going to
print not only the speeches we delivered
to them few weeks ago, but the speeches
we made before the Judiciary Committee
in 1880. That is very clever of them, and
it is better treatment than we got from
the House. When they refused to print
our speeches L went over there and
called out Congressman who opposed it,
and | said: GA lot of you fellows in there
have done very mean thing, and you
ought to be ashamed of it. 1t was bad
enough to vote no on our resolution, but
to refuse us even the courtesy of printing
our speeches is something you Oughtn't
to have done. | suspect you are one of
those who opposed i'll knew he was all
the time-sand [ want you to go into that
committee room and move recOnsidera-
tion,' and he did it. The motion was car
ried, and the speeches are to be printed
The House committee stands 10 to ) on
our resolution.
care you related to Senator Anthony"
asked the reporter.
"Only distantly."
''There is suppOsition that you are re-
lated"
Eyes, know, and some funny things
have occurred about it. A lady was in
troduced to me at a reception and she
said "I'm so glad to meet you, Mrs. An
thony. | saw your husband in the Senate
to-day. He was pointed out to me as one
of the nOtables, and | liked him so much
That was an actual fact"
E'But the meanest thing that was ever
said about me-" continued Miss An
thOny, twas in a Western paper soon
after our convention. 1t was a story
about having poodle dog and carrying
it in my arms, and it said that took it to
the convention and held it in my lap, and
when | got up to speak it curled down at
my feet. There isn't word of truth in
it."
''Have you got dogr'
''NO, and | never had one. | never even
spoke to One.''
But did the President squeeze your
hand?"
81 must tell you how that happened.
When had finished my speech to him at
the White House that day he said in the
politest manner possible that he believed
the women ought to have whatever they
wanted. l said, Let's shake hands on
that, Mr.. President and he took hold of
my hand and held it while he was max
ing his reply. But it was only a minute
or So"
''But did he squeeze it?'
''He didn't squeeze it bit. That was
all there was to it,
Miss Anthony will remain here a few
weeks longer doing missionary work
among the Congressman. She is very
popular with everybody, even with the
most violent opponents of woman suf-
frage, and is always a great favorite with
children.