The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-11-02
WHERE WOMEN VOTE.
Taken ALI in ALI, They Cut Quite a
Figure in Politics.

Lie VI HOElu Ha6I6
women already have some suffrage
have an AGRA of over 10000 600
square miles and their population is
over 35,OOO,OOO.
In Great Britain women vote for
all elective officers except members
of Parliament.
In France the women teachers
elect women members on all Boards
of Education.
In Sweden women vote for all
elective officers except Representa-
tives; also, indirectly, for members
of the House of Lords.
In Norway they have school suff-
rage.
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 cleo
tive 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
elections in person.
In Italy widows vote for members
of Parliament.
In the Madras Presidency and the
Bombay Presidency (Hindoostan)
the women exercise the right of
suffrage In all municipalities.
In all the countries of Russian
Asia they can do so wherever Rus
sian colony settles. The Russians
are colonizing the whole of their
vast Asian possessions, and carrying
with them everywhere the ''mir," or
self-governing village, wherein wo-
men who are heads of households are
permitted to vote.
Women have municipal suffrage
in Cape Colony, which rules mil
lion square miles.
Municipal women suffrage rules In
New Zealand, and, / think, at Parlia
mentary elections.
Iceland, in the North Atlantic, the
Isle of Man between England and
Ireland), and Pitcairn Island, in the
South Pacific, have full women
suffrage
In the Dominion of Canada women
have municipal suffrage In every
province and also in the Northwest
Territories. In Ontario they vote
for all elective officers, except in the
election of members of the Legis-
lature and Parliament.
In the United States twenty eight
States and Territories have given
women some form of suffrage.
School suffrage in various degrees
IS granted to women In Arizona,
Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware,
Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky,
Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,
Nebraska, New Hampshire. New
Jersey, New York, North Dakota,
Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Yer
mont, 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 suff-
rage with men at all municipal
elections.
About $4,000 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
such as gas and
electric street lighting, paving, sew
erage, and municipal bonds.
In Utah women voted until dis
franchised by the "Edmunds law"
when they promptly organized to
demand its repeal.
In Pennsylvania law was passed
in 1889 under which woman vote on
local improvements by signing or re-
fusing to sign petitions therefor.
In Wyoming women have voted on
the same terms with men since 1870.
The Convention in 1889 to form
State Constitution unanimously in
serted provision securing them full
suffrage. This Constitution was
ratified by the voters at a special
election by about tbree-fourths
majority. Congress refused to re-
quire the acknowledgements of women
and admitted the State July 10, 1890.
Aud let it not be forgotten that
in the Senate Of the United States,
Feb. Z, 1889, a select committee re-
ported in favor of amending the
Federal Constitution so as to forbid
States to make sex cause of dis
Congress adjourned,
however, on March following with
out reaching the subject.-Political
pYOurosS