The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1896-11-10

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 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 suf-
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 Crotia and Dalmatia they have
the privilege of doing SO in local cleo.
tions in person.
In Italy widows vote for Members
of Parliament.
In the Madris presidency and the
Bombay presidency (Hindoostanl the
women exercise the right Of suffrage
in all municipalities.
In all countries of Russian Asia they
can do so wherever n Russian colony
settles. The Russians are colonizinr
tho whole of their vast Asian posses.
sions, and carrying with them every
where the mir" or self-governinr
village, wherein women who are heads
OF households arc permitted to vote.
Women have municipal suffrage in
Cape Colony, which rules 1000, 900
square miles.
Municipal woman suffrage rules in
New Zealand and at parliamentary
| elections.
Iceland. in the North Atlantic; the
Isle of Man, between England and
Ireland, and Pitcairn Island, in tho
South Pacific, have full woman suf-
frage.
In the Dominion of Canada women
have municipal suffrage in every pro-
vince and also in the northwest terri
tories. In Ontario they vote for all
elective officers except in the election
OF members of the Legislature and
Pan lament
In the United States twenty eight
States and Territories have given
women some form of suffrage.
School suifrages III various degrees
is granted to women in Arizona, Col
orado, Connecticut. Delaware, Idaho,
Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mnssachu-
sets. Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska,
New Hampshire, New Jersey, New
York, North Dakota, Oregon, South
Dakota, Texas, Vermont and Wiscon-
sim.
In Arkansas and Missouri women
vote, by petition, on liquor license in
many cases.
In Delaware suffrage is exercised by
women in several municipalities.
la Kansas they have equal suffrage
with men i'll ali municipal elections.
About 90, 600 women voted in 1890.
In Montana they vote on all local
taxation.
In New York they can and do vote
ct school elections. The question of
the constitutionNitY 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 NUM-
| cipal bonds.
In Utah women voted until disfran-
chised by the Edmunds law, when
they promptly organized to demand
its repeal.
In Pennsylvania 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 unanimously inserted n
provision securing them full suffrage.
This Constitution was ratified by the
voters at a special election by about
three-fourths majority. Congress re.
fused to require the Acknowledgement
of women, and admitted the State July
10, 1890.
And let it not be forgotten that in
the Senate of the United States Feb.
ruary 7, 1889, select committee re-
ported in favor Of amending the Fed
eral Constitution so as to forbid States
to make sex q cause of disfranchise-
ment. Congress adjourned, however,
March following, without reaching
the subject. { Omaha Bee.