The Monitor., 1886-02-19
Warrington Ecffer.
fFrom our regular correspondent
WAsHINGToN. Feb. Is, 1886.

Notable advocates of woman suffrage are
gathering IN the city for their annual con-
yention, which is to be held this week
| This is the eighteenth annual time the as
| soeiation has come to Washington to ask
| for woman's rights and to tell of woman's
wrongs directly to Congress. Susan b.
| Anthony, the pioneer in this movement is
here as usual, looking little Older and a
little more furrowed by the plow 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. Rep
resentatiye women are also here from New
York. Massachusetts,, New Jersey, Indiana,
Missouri, Nebraska, Kentucky Ohio, Penn
sylvania, Maryland, and other states.
They report that twelve states have grant
ed school suffrage, and municipal suffrage
is being advocated and worked for. The
delegates to the convention will be given a
hearing while here by the Senate commit
tee on Woman Suffrage 1t is composed
of Senators Blair Palmer, Chace, and
Bowen. This committee has sent to the
United States Senate report recommend
ing the submission to the legislatures of
the States for ratification 10th amend
ment to the Constitution, prohibiting dis
franchisement on account OF sex.
They have no expectation OF getting
the amendment from this Congress, nor
from the next, but they say they will get
the matter discussed and the more it is
discussed the more popular it becomes.
They claim there are twenty-six Senators
who favor giving the ballot to women.
Among these are Senator Stamford, the
Pacific coast millionaire, President pro
tem of the Senate Sherman, and Senators
Conger. Hoar, and Blair who may be
called the professional Senatorial cham
pions of woman.
As to the Congressional proceedings this
week there will be little that is new and
much of the old. The Senate will discuss
the great Educational 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 exhaust
ed the Porter business during every Con-
gress for nearly twenty years. Nothing
has occurred 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 objec-
tions. Senator Morgan, of Alabama, is
one Of the bitterest opponents of the Edu-
cation bill, and has argued at length the
Constitutional and legal phases of the
question He holds that the measure is
one to create offices and elaborate the ma
chinery of the Government. ''If from the
60 600, 900 people in the United States,
said he: ''were to be deducted all the dead
beats, dead heads, and non-producers,
there would be about 20000 900 people
left who would really have to pay the
taxes to carry out the provisions of this
BILL" If [. S. Senators were men who
plowed fields or worked smthes. and paid
taxes out of the sweat of their brows, Mr..
Morgan could have more respect for them
when voting away the money of one man
to educate the children of another. He
thought this plan for education simply
meant pulling down the man who got up
by his own exertions in order to put up a
drunken lOafer who would not exert him
self
The Presidents first card reception of
the winter was given last Friday in honor
of the Diplomatic Corps, and was one of
the most brilliant affairs ever held at the
White House. The snowy court costumes
of the Diplomats. and the full uniforms of
the Army and navy officers mingled with
the elaborate costumes worn by the ladies
made the scene in the great East Room
strkingly gorgeous. Both Houses of Con-
gress, judicial circles, and officials in
Washington who hold commissions from
the President were also invited to meet the
foreigners. The latter being the guests
proper Of the evening, they received for
NAL invitations, while the other were ex-
pected to attend upon what is called an
anonymous announcement in the news
papers. This kind of Jeflcrsonan simplic-
i:y was not well received by all classes
concerned, and it was noticed that the Sen
ators were few and far between in the
throng. In ancient times, before the days
Of engraved cards, it was the custom to
have Presidential receptions announced
officially to both Houses of Congress.
About the time for the reception to begin
the rain settled into vigorous down pour,
and compelled carriage lGvce An hour
later the line of carriages awaiting their
turn to deposit their occupants on the
White House portico, reached from the
Mansion down the east drive to Pennsylva-
mia avenue, along the avenue to Fifteenth
street, stretched in front of Willard S
hotel, and up Fourteenth as far as f ST.
Fred Douglass, the Recorder Of Deeds
for the District of Columbia came with his
white wife when the reception was about
half over. They attracted more general
attention and comment probably than any
other couple present. WESTON.
s
The annual cncampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic, Department of New
Jersey, was held at Trenton on Thursday
of last week, and was largely attended
Commander Nevins reported II new posts
for tba war anI 'Ti,nr.,