The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-29
A SHARP PASSAGE AT ARMS
LITELY ROW IN THE HOUSE COM-
 MITTEE ON JUDICIARY.

Representative Blackwell in His Remarks
 on Woman Suffrage Started the Trouble
 to Which Some of the Southern Members
 Took Exception--The Room Crowded. Washington, Jan. 2S.--There was sharp passage at arms in the house Judiciary committee room to-day be- Tennessee and Henry B. Blackwell of Massachusetts. The occasion was a hearing given by the committee to rep resentative of the Woman Suffrage movement headed by Miss Susan B. Anthony. MT. Blackwell was speaking in support of the joint resolution favor ing sixteenth amendment to the con- sttution providing for the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on ac- count Of sex. He explained that he rep resented S6,790 men and 22,224 women who voted at the last election in Mas sachuSettS for woman suffrage. lie proceeded to give the reasons why uni- vensal suffrage should be granted and incidentally remarked that there had been no system of free schools in the south until they were established by the carpet-bagger
 To this statement there was chorus of dissent from the southern members of the committee, MT. Boatner of Louis jana challenging its correctness as to Louisiana, and Messrs. Washington of ,,ly In,, ing it so far as their states were con- Cerned. MT. Blackwell remarked that it was true of most of the southern states. Thereupon MT. Washington sprang to his feet and exclaimed dra- matically that 'if the carget-baggers had not robbed us of millions We would have more money to teach the negroes. ," A moment later he again interrupted the speaker with declaration that the young men of the south would be the first to putting the negro in slavery again, and that the people of the south were now taxing themselves millions of dollars to educate the blackman and his boy.
 MT. Blackwell at this point changed the line of his argument and the scene ended
 When the hearing began the room was crowded with delegates in attend ance upon the suffrage convention now in session here. Miss Anthony stated that this was the fourteenth committee of congress before whom she had ap- peared in furtherance of the suffra ge movement. She wanted the members of the committee to do as much for their wives and daughters as their pred ecessors had done for the slaves of the south. What she desired was a report from the committee, a favorable report | if possible, but information in a minor 1 ity so that the report might come be- fore the house.
 MT. Henderson interjected remark that in his opinion a majority of the women of the country did not want suffrage. Miss Anthony sharply replied that the majority of children also ob- jected to going to school and women
 who opposed suffrage were children in the elementary principles of govern ment. Miss Anthony then introduced Mrse L. T. Hughes. MT. Henderson's suggestion that majority of the Am erican women did not want suffra ge seemed to disturb number of the speakers. who addressed their argument
 to this object, but in every case their remarks were in good temper. Mns. Stetson of California followed Mrs. | Hughes.
 | The other speakers were Mrs. Anna L. Diggs of Colorado, Mrs. Cady Addi- son of Kansas, Miss Elizabeth U. Yates of Maine, Henry B. Blackwell of Mas sachusetts, Mrs Saunders of Montana, Mns Clara B. Colby of Nebraska, Dr. Cora Smith Eaton of North Dakota, Caroline M Everhardt of Ohio, Mrs. Anna R. Simmons of North Dakota,
 Mrs. Emily Richards of Utah, and Mrs. Jessie Manley of West Virginia.