Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-21
Its Advocates Appear Before Con-
gressional Committees.
HEARINGS At THE CAPITOL TODAY
Miss Anthony and Other Ladies
Make Arguments.
T II E B L.LOT w Mt E d


judiciary committee this morning to advo-
cate constitutional amendment for woman
suffrage. Such a resolution had recently
been rejected by the committee, but was
reconside-ed at the request of the ladies'
Among those in the party were Susan b.
Anthony. Rev. Anna H. Shaw, Rev. ida
Hultin Of Illinois. Mrs. Greenleaf OF New
York, Mrs. Howard of Georgia, Mrs. Har-
riet Taylor Upton of Ohio, Miss Jennie
Clifford of Ohio. Mrs. Ketcham, Mrs. Stans-
bury OF Colorado and Mrs. Pickler Of South
Dakota. But four members of the commit
tee received the delegation. Representatives
Goodnight of Kentucky. Broderick of Kan
sas. Boatner of Louisiana and Wolverton
of Pennsylvania.
Miss Anthony Begins the Speechmak-
ing.
The speechmaking was begun by Susan
B. Anthony. who told how the women had
come before congressional committees thir-
teen times once before the committee on
privileges and elections. once before a Sc
lect committee and other times before the
judiciary committee; how they had once
obtained a favorable majority report upon
their appeal when Judge Taylor of Ohio
was chairman of the committee, and IA
vorable minority reports at other times.
AFTER half century of speaking she did
not intend to reiterate her appeal, but ush-
cred before the committee the Rev. Anna
H. Shaw,a minister Of the Protestant Epis-
copal Church.
Mrs. Shaw took eloquent exception to the
system which confers suffrage upon all
men not idiots She averred that the male
half OF creation had resorted to every de-
vice OF demagoguery to bar the female half
from her rights.
The Rev. Ida c. Hultin Of Illinois de-
clared that men should dignity women by
comforting upon them their political rights.
Coercion and oppression, she said, did not
conduce to real piety or freedom, and in
the interests of greater self-respect for the
sex she asked equal suffrage.
Miss Anthony remarked that southern
Congressman had always replied to the Pc
south did not want the ballot, and to con-
fute that statement presented Mrs. Vir-
ginia c. Young of South Carolina, who de-
scribed the trials Of women under the pres
ent system.
Mrs. ketcham's Appeal.
The president Of the Michigan state as
sociation, Mrs. Ketcham, declared that there
were women in the state washed by the un-
salted seas who would gladly die for the
cause. With emotion she asserted that in
this time Of transition of thought men had
come to realize that government was not
safe with half its citizens the political in
feriors Of recently enfranchised chattels
and slaves: that men were beginning to de-
mand the mother element in the govern
ment.
Miss Lavinia Hatch Of Massachusetts
spoke Of the injustice of taxation without
representation. and Mr.. Henry B. Black
well. a Massachusetts, pioneer Of the move
ment, stated that woman's suffrage was of
as much interest to men women, telling
the committee members that If they were
the statesmen he wished they were they
would grant the right from motives Of
justice. Ignorant male suffrage was the
great threat to government. Not to make
women like men. but because they wero
unlike men. presenting a different class of
interests and motives, he would have them
take part in the government. Prof. Jennie
CLIFFORD OF Butchel College, Akron, Ohio
urged that all property owners should have
voice In government
The wife of Representative Waugh Of
Indiana was introduced by Miss Anthony
with the remark that since man and wife
were one, and that one might be the wife
in this instance. 1t could be considered that
Mr. Waugh was speaking.
Mrs. Waugh regretted that the LIQUOR
traffic had both political parties by the
pate them.
Mrs. Pickler. wife Of Congressman Pick
Ter, who spoke next, in the course Of her
remarks indulged in a brief tilt with Rep
question. which afforded amusement.
God would never forgive the territorial
governor of Dakota for his veto of a suf-
frage bill. Mrs. Pickler said. Woman's
only opposition in the northwest came from
foreign born citizens
Miss Anthony corroborated this last state
ment with statistics, warmly questioning
the right of foreigners to come to this coun-
try and debar American women from their
rights.
A Senate Hearing.
Senators Hoar. Wolcott, Blackburn and
Hill of the Senate committee on woman
suffrage gave a hearing in the Senate mar
BILE room today to a delegation of women
of the late national convention in advo-
cacy Of the rights Of suffrage without re-
gard to sex.
The speakers were Rev. Ida Hultin of
Illinois. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell of
Massachusetts, Mrs. s. B. Mitchell of Penn
sylvania. Mrs. Anna S. Diggs and Repre-
Clay Bennett of Kentucky. Phoebe w.
Wright of New Jersey. Mrs. Alice Smith of
Vermont Mrs. Clara b. Colby of Nebraska,
Mrs. jeanette S. French of Rhode Island.
Mrs. Abbey Peaslee Of Maine, Rev. Anna
Shaw, vice president at large of the Ma
tional Womans Suffrage Association. Mrs.
Hultin's argument was based on the hu-
manity of the proposition to confer suffrage
on woman. She pleaded for a chance for
the perfect development of the race and
said that IL suffrage was a good thing for
half the race it must be good for all.
Miss Augusta Howard of Georgia who
wore a reform costume over ersnadowed by
cowboys sombrero. made humorous
speech.
The Victory I'm Colorado.
Fellow citizens" began Mrs. Stanbury
of Colorado to the committee. a sally
which provoked laughter, and then she de-
scribed the recent Colorado campaign for
suffrage. which resulted in a victory for
women.
The president Of the New York state as
sociation, Mrs. Jane Brooks Greenleaf of
Rochester, wife of former member of
Congress. spoke of the degradation of
disfranchisement. Before adjournment
Miss Anthony spoke. Representative Good
night in the absence of Chairman Culber-
son. promised the delegation that the
matter would be considered.
Frequent applause from the ladies' inter-
rupted the speeches.
Before the session ended other members
Of the committee dropped in, finding seats
on the desks or window sills, as the room
was crowded that the scene was an in
formal and rather picturesque one for a
congressional hearing, frightened by the
gowns and bonnets of the delegates The
only interruption to the occasion was the
intermittent wailing Of an infant carried by
one Of the delegates.