Evening star., 1894-11-09
WHERE WOMEN HAVE SUFFRAGE.
A Connected List Makes an Impress-
i've Showing.

Somebody has taken the pains to put to-
gether in the Chicago Tribune the places
where women have whole or partial suf-
frage. Taken all in all, it will be seen that
they cut quite figure in the worlds poll
tics.
In Great. Britain women vote for all elec-
tive officers except members of parliament
In France the women teachers elect wo-
men members on all boards of education.
In Sweden women vote for all elective
officers except representatives; also indi-
rectly for members of the house of lords.
In Norway they have school suffrage.
In Ireland the women vote for the harbor
boards and poor law guardians, and in Bel
rast Tor municipal officers
In Russia women householders vote for all
elective officers and on all local matters.
In Finland they vote for all elective off,
GERS.
In Austria-Hngary they vote by proxy
Tor all elective officers
IN C"otia and Dalmatia they have the
privilege of doing SO in local elections in
In Italy widows vote for members of par
Lament.
In the Madras presidency and the Bonn
pay presidency CHindustan) the women ex.
ercise the right of suffrage in all munich.
palities.
In all the countries of Russian Asia thew
can do so wherever a Russian colony SET.
ties. The Russians are colonizing the whole
ing with them everywhere the mir" or
sef-governing village, wherein women who
are heads of households are permitted to
vote.
Women have municipal suffrage in Cate
Colony, which rules a million square miles,
Municipal woman suffrage rules III New
Zealand, and, / think, at parliamentary eIec-
tons.
Iceland, in the North Atlantic: the Isle Of
Man, between England and ireland, and
fitcalrn Island In the South Pacific, have
full woman suffrage.
In the Dominion Of Canada women have
municipal suffrage in every province and
also In the northwest territories In on
tarlo they vote for all elective officers, ex-
cept in the election of members of the legts-
lature and parliament.
In the United States twenty-eight states
ana territories have given women some
form Of suffrage.
granted to women in Arizona, Colorado,
Connecticut Delaware, Idaho, Indiana.
Kansas, Kentucky. Massachusetts, Michi-
gan, 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
$4,000 women voted in 1880.
In Montana they vote on all local taxa
ton.
In New York they can and do vote at
school elections. The question of the con-
sututionality of the law is still undecided
They vote also in many places in this state
on local improvements, such as gas and
electric street lighting, paving, sewerage
and municipal bonds.
In Utah women voted until disfranchised
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 improve
ments by signing or refusing to sign peti-
tions therefor
In Wyoming women have voted on the
same terms with men since 1870. The con.
vention In 1889 to form state constitu-
ton unanimously inserted provision se-
curing them full suffrage. This constitu-
tion was ratified by the voters at a special
election by about three-fourths majority.
Congress refused to require the disfran-
chisement of women, and admitted the state
July 10, 1880.
And let 1t not be forgotten that in the
Senate of the United States. February Z,
1889, select committee reported In favor
OF amending the federal constitution so as
to forbid states to make sex a cause Of
disfranchisement. Congress adjourned. how
ever, March following, without reaching
the subject.