The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-16
THE SILVER FIGHT
1t Will be Pushed and it Will be
a Hard One.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE CONVENTION
To be Held In Washington the Coming Week
Difference Between Delegates
Now and Formerly.


HERALD BUREAU,
Cor. 18th and G. Streets, n. W.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.
The resolutions for an international BIZ
metallic conference introduced in the
Senate and House few days since have
created considerable talk in the east. Tel
Ter introduced similar resolution last July,
but it died in committee. Sweet, who in
PRODUCED the resolution, says: Senator
Shoup sent for me, asking me to come to
his rooms at once. l found him waiting.
We drove to the residence of Teller. l am
not at liberty to impart all the information
received, but the indications certainly point
to the possibility of an international agree
ment. England still feels the effect of the fail
ure OF Barring Brothers, andSalisbury admits
that there is not enough gold to do the bust
ness Of the world. The German chancellor
asks his people time to consider the ques-
ton. Finally 1t was agreed | should intro
uuce the resolution In the House.
line light for free coinage will be pushed
regardless of these resolutions. The
fight will be a hard one, as the leaders
OF both parties in the east are determined
L
agreement has been reached by the eastern
leaders on both sides to call joint caucuses
OF both parties, when they expect the rank
ana HE or both parties will surrender to
the oVershadoWIng greatness of their old
leaders. The majority for silver in the
House lie pronounced, but the passage of a
free colnsge bill by the Democrats will
cost New York, New Jersey and Connecti-
cut at the next national campaign although
the south would remain in line regardless
of these questions. Hence these tears.
The struggle is on. Its outcome no man
can guess.
WOMAN sUFFRAGIsTs.
The woman suffragists of America
Will hold their annual convention
IN this city on the 18th, 18th,
18th and Goth instants. The suffrage move,
ment is now entering upon its twenty-tfth
year. thirty states and territories sent
delegates to the last annual convention
and II Is expected that at the one in ques-
ton no fewer than forty states ana six
territories will be represented. During
the continuance of the convention the con-
gressional committee of the suffragists will
be given hearing by both the judiciary
and the suffrage committees of the House.
Inc head OF the suffrage committee is Miss
Susan b. Anthony, who has
YALIANTLY FOUGHT THE CAUSE OF WOMEN
before eleven preceding Congresses. 1t is
rather interesting, these appeals to the
hDerality OF Congress.
The early appeals were fippantly disre-
garded and the ladies were even denied the
| courtesy of an adverse report. A little
later Congress became ashamed of itself,
and the committee to whom the suffrage
bill was referred did consent to notice it to
the extent of reporting against it. 1t is a
little odd, but 1t is true, that Mr.. TONI
Reed, of Maine,
THE GEAR OF THE LAST HOUSE,
should have been the first Representative
who wrote minority report in favor of
the bill. Mr.. Reeds action was followed
in the next Congress by Mr.. E. b.
Taylor, Of Ohio, who made a similar
minority report Gradually, year by year,
the scope of the women's influence
oroadened, and in the last Congress Mr..
Gaswell, of Wisconsin, reported the bill
| back to the House, favorabiy.
One OF the signs of the increase in the
suffrage movement is that so many young
women are taking hold of the work.
About half of those who are upon the
programme for the coming convention are
middle aged and younger. Some of them
are still in their twenties. Many of those
who were here year ago were bright,
HANDSOME GIRLS WHOSE GOWNS FITTED
perfectly and which were in every way tri-
umphs of the modiste's art. That they were
Intelligent and thoughtful goes without
saying. They were none the less womaplv
by reasons Of these qualities and the
Impression which they made upon
the lawmakers at the capitol was
in every degree creditable to them
The truth is, the short haired women and
the long haired men who were the most
! conspicuous features of suffrage conyen-
tions in the past have had their say, and
their places are filled by some of the most
civilized and brainiest representatives of
the two sexes. You can drop In at
FASHIONABLE TEA IN THE WEST END
and go from there to a session of the
woman suffragists, and the chances are
that you will find at the latter place more
women OF engaging personality than you
will at the former.
Of the pioneers in the cause Elizabeth
| Cady Station, Susan b. Anthony. Iucy
Stone and Isabelle Beecher Hooker are as
well known as the cause itself. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, the president of the associa-
ton, Will be here In spite of the fact that
when she went abroad several wears ago
few of her admirers-and she numbers
them by the thousands-eyer expected to
see her again. For Susan B. Anthony the
years seem TO have rolled backwards. She
won't acknow edge her age-she is a true
woman, you see-but there Is a legend to
the effect that two years ago in this CITY
| she
Notwithstanding her busy life she looks
younger to-day than many women a score
of years her junior. AUNT Susan,n as all
the suffragists affectionately call her. has
always contended that saffragist need not
necessarily be poor or Indifferent house.
keeper This proposition she proves in her
own case. She and her niece, Mary An
thony, went to housekeeping last summer
in Rochester, and they are the happiest
pair of women you can find anywhere.
They give teas and dinners and luncheons
ad libitum, and no better housewives can
be found within all the limits of the FIour
city.
Miss Anthony's principal associate on
the congressional committee is Mrs Har-
riet Taylor Upton. Mrs. Upton is the
daughter of Representative Taylor, of
Ohio. She is well known in social life and
distinguished in
THE LITERARY coTERIE OF THE CAPITAL.
Other we'll known women who are iden-
titled with the suffrage movement are Mrs.
Warren and Mrs. Carey, the wives of the
Wyoming Senators; Mrs. Senator Dolph.
of Oregon; Mrs. Senator Pettigrew, of
South Dakota; Mrs. Senator Allen, of
Washington; Mrs. Senator Hawley, of
Connecticut, and Mrs. Senator Stanford, of
California. Mrs. Greenleaf, whose hus-
band is the Representative from Roches-
! ter, n. Y, is president of the New York
State Suffrage society, and will participate
actively in the coming convention.
| Before the Woman Suffrage ntion
shall have finished its labors, Washington
| will have annihar assern hlana r--ithi., -.