The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1886-02-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, Feb. Is, 1886.

fragc are gathering in the city fol
their annual convention, which is
to be held this week. This is the
eighteenth annual time the associa
ton has come to Washington tc
ask for woman's rights and to tel
Of woman's wrongs directly to
Congress. Susan b. Anthony, the
pioneer in this movement, is here
as usual, looking a little older and
a little more furrowed by the
plough Of time each year, but she
is still erect, energetic, proud of her
work, and as confident of final
success as she was forty years ago.
Representative women are also
here from New York, Massachu-
sets, New Jersey, Indiana, Mis-
souri,, Nebraska, Kentucky, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Maryland, and other
States. They report that twelve
States have granted school suffrage
to women, and municipal suffrage
is being advocated and worked for.
The delegates to the convention
will be given hearing while here
by the Senate Committee on
Woman Suffrage. 1t is composed
of Senators Blair, Palmer, Chace
and Bowen. This committee has
sent to the United States Senate a
report recommending the submis-
sion to the Legislatures of the
States for ratification sixteenth
amendment to the Constitution.
prohibiting disiranchiscment on
account of sex.
They have no expectation of get
ting the amendment from this
Congress, nor from the next, but
they say they will get the matter
discussed and the more it is dis
cussed the more popular it becomes
They claim there are twenty-six
Senators who favor giving the
ballot to women. Among these
are Senator Stanford, the Pacific
Coast millionaire, President pro
TEN of the Senate Sherman, and
Senators Conger, Hoar and Blair,
who may be called the professional
Senatorial champions of women.
As to Congressional proceedings
this week there will be little that
is new and much of the old. The
Senate will discuss the great educa-
tional bill, and the House will talk
again about the relief of Fitz-John
Porter. The Senate exhausted the
subject Of education last Congress,
and the House Of Representatives
has exhausted the Porter business
Turing every Congress for nearly |
twenty years. Nothing has occur
red to change the opinions of the
friends of either measure, and it is |
not likely that the opponents of
either have discovered anything to
modify their objections.
Senator Morgan of Alabama is
one of the bitterest opponents of
Lhc educational bill, and has argued /
1t length the Constitutional and /
egal phases of the question. He |
holds that the measure is one to /
create offices and elaborate the
of the Government.
If from the G0,000,O0O people in
he United States" said he, "were
o be deducted all the dead beats,
lead heads, and non-producers,
here would be about 100000
people left who would really have
o pay the taxes to carry out the
provisions of this bill" If United
states Senators were men who
lowed fields or worked smithies,
nd paid taxes out of the sweat of
heir brows, Mr.. Morgan could have
more respect for them when voting
way the money of one man to
ducate the children Of another.
lie thought this plan for education
imply meant pulling down the
IAN who got up by his own exer-
ions in order to put up drunken
)afer who would not exert himself.
The Presidents first card reccp-
on of the winter was given last
'riday in honor of the Diplomatic
orps, and was one Of the most
rilliant affairs ever held ut the
White House. The snowy court :.
Dstumes of the diplomats, and the
Ill uniforms of the army and navy
llicers mingled with the elaborate (