Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-12-26
Where Women Can Vote.
TAKEN IN ALL, THEY CUT QUITE
FIGURE IN THE WORLDS
POLITICS.

POLITICS.
The countries of the world wher,
women already have some suffrag,
have an area of over $4,000, ,OO(
square miles and their population i.
over 350,OOO,COO, according to the
Omaha Bee.
In Great Britain women vote 70,
all elective officers except member:
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 suf,
frage.
In Ireland the women vote for
the harbor boards, poor law guardi-
ans, and in Belfast for municipal Of
ficers.
In Russia women householders
vote for all elective officers and on
all local matters.
In Finland they vote for all elect
i've 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
presidency (HindOostan) tho women
exercise the right of suffrage in all
municipalities.
In all countries of Russian Asia
they can do SO wherever a Russian
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 1,OOO,-
600 square miles.
Municipal women suffrage rules
in New Zealand, and at parliament
ary elections.
Iceland, in the north Atlantic
the Isle of Man between England
and Ireland, and the Pitcairn Island
in the south Pacific, have full woman
suffrage.
In the Dominion of Canada wo-
men have municipal suffrage in
every province and also in the North
east territories. In Ontario thew
vote for all elective officers eXcept
in the election of members of the
and Parliament.
In the United States, twenty-eigh
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 il exercised
by women in several municipalities.
In Kansas they have equal suffrage
with men at ali municipal electious.
About 1000 women voted in 1890.
In Montana they vote on all local
taxation.
In New York they can and do
vote at school elections. The ques-
tion of the constituti0nality 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, sew
erage and municipal bonds.
In Utah, women voted until dis
franchised by the " Edmunds law,n
when they promptly organized to
demand its repeal.
In Pennsylvania q 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 State constitution unani-
inserted provision securing
them full suffrage. This constitution
was ratified by the voters at a spe-
cial election by about three fourths
maJority. Congress refused to re-
quire the disfranchisement of wo-
men and admitted the State July 10,
1890.
And let it not be forgotten that
IN the Senate of the United States.
February 7th, 1889, select commit
tee reported in favor of amending
the federal constitution so as to for
bid States to make sex cause of
disfranchisement. Congress ad-
Journed, however, March 4th, fol-
lowing, without reaching the subject.