The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-11-15
WHERE WOMEN HAvE SUFFRAGE

WHERE WOMEN EAVE SUFFRAGE.
From the Chicago Iuter-oceau.
The countries Of the world where
women already have some suffrage
have an area OF over eighteen million
square miles and their population is
over three hundred and fifty million.
In Great Britain women vote for all
elective officers except members OF par.
Lament.
In France the women teachers elect
women membe on al boards of edu-
cation.
In Sweden women vote for all cleo
tive officers except representatives;
also, indirectly, for members of the
house of lords.
In Norway they have school SUI
frage.
In Ireland the women vote for the
/ harbor boards. poor law guardians. and
/ in Belfast for municipal officers.
IN Russia women householders vote
/ for all elective officers and on all local
matters.
In Finland they vote for all elective
officers.
In Austria-Hungary they vote, by
proxy. for all elective officers.
In Croatia and Dalmatia they have
the privilege of doing so in local elec-
tions in person.
IN italy widows vote for members OF
/ parliament.
In the Madras presidency and the
Bomb presidency (Hindoostan) the
women exercise the right of suffrage
in all municipalities.
In all the countries of Russian Asia
they can do so wherever a Russian col
Cnv settles. The Russians are coloniz.
ing the whole OF their vast Asian pos
sessions and carrying with them every
where the mir" or self-governing
village, wherein women who are heads
of households are permitted to vote.
Women have municipal suffrage in
Cape Colony, which rules a million
square miles.
Municipal woman suffrage rules in
New Zealand, and, l think, at parlia-
mentary elections.
Iceland, in the North Atlantic; the
Isle of Man between England and Ire
land:) and Pitcairn island, in the South
In the Dominion of Canada women
have municipal suffrage in every prov
ince and also in the northwest terri
tories. In Ontario they vote for all
elective officers, except in the election
of the members of the legislature and
parliament.
In the United States twenty-eight
states and territories have given wom-
en- some form of suffrage.
School suffrage in various degrees is
granted to women in Arizona, Colo
radO, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, In
diana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachu-
setts, Michigan, Minnesota. Nebraska.
New Hampshire. New Jersey, New
York, North Dakota, Oregon, South
Dakota. Texas, Vermont and Wisconsin.
In Arkansas and Missouri women
vote, by petition, on liquor license in
many cases.
In Delaware suffrage is exercised by
women in several municipalities.
In Kansas they have equal suffrage
with men at all municipal elections.
About fifty thousand women voted in
1890.
In Montana they vote on all local
taxation.
In New York they can and do vote
at school elections The question of
the constitutionality of the law is still
undecided. They vote also in many
places in this state on local improve
ments, such as gas and electric street
lighting, paving, sewerage and muni-
cipal bonds.
In Utah women voted until disfran-
chised by the "Edmunds law" when
they promptly organized to demand
its repeal.
In Pennsylvania a law was passed in
1889 under which women vote on local
improvements by signing or refusing
to sign petitions therefor
In Wyoming women have voted on
the same terms with men since 1870.
The convention in 1889 TO form a state
constitution unanimously inserted
provision securing them full suffrage.
This constitution was ratified by the
voters at a special election by about
threefourths majority. Congress re-
fused to require the Gisfranchiscnent
of women and admitted the state July
10. 1890.
And let 1t not be forgotten that in
the senate of the United States, Febru-
ary :, 1852, a select committee reported
IN favor of amending the federal con-
stitution so as 10 forbid states 20 make
sex Z cause of Gisfranchisement. Con-
gress adjourned, however, March !,
following, without reaching the sub