Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1886-02-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.


Washington, Feb. 10th.
Notable advocates of women suf-
frage are gathering in the city for
their annual convention, which is to
be held this week. This is the
eighteenth annual time the associa-
ton 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, look
inc 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, Massachusetts,
New Jersey, Indiana, Missouri, Ne
braska, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland, and other states.
They report that twelve states have
granted school suffrage to women,
and municipal suffrage is beng adj
vocated and worked for. The dele
gates to the convention will he given
q 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 submits
sion to the legislatures of the states
for ratification a 10th amendment to
the constitution, prohibiting disfran-
chisement on account of sex.
They have no expectation of get
ting the amendment from this con-
gress or the next, but they say they
will get the matter discussed and the
more 1t 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 Stanford, the Pacific
coast millionaire, president pro tenn
of the senate, Sherman, and Senator'S
COnoer. HOar, and Blair, who may
be called the professional senatorial
champions Of woman.
AS to congressional proceedings
this week there will be little that is
new and much Of the old. The SEN
ate will discuss the great Education
al 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
. congress 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
any to modify their objections.
Senator Morgan of Alabama is
one of the bitlerest opponents of the
educational bill, and has argued a
length the constitutional aud lega
2 phases of the question. He holds
J that the measure is one to CT. at,
offices and elaborate the machlnerv
5 of the government. ''If from thu
5 6Q,000,Q00 people in the United
: States" said he, 'sweTe to be deducJ
e ed all the dead beats, dead heads
Y and non- producers, there would b,
= about 20,000,O00 people left WIFI
: would really have to pay taxes t,
z carry out the provisions Of this bill.
: If United States senators were mel
f who plowed fields or worken smithe
: who paid taxes out of the sweat 0
e their brows, Mr.. Morgan could hav
7" more respect for them when votin
: away the money Of one man to edu
h cate the children Of another. Fl
e thought this plan for education sim
e ply meant pulling down the man vi.
n got up by his own exertlons in orde
/ to put up drunken loafer vii
y would not exert himself.
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