The San Francisco call., 1896-03-22
First Gun Of the Campaign a,
Native Sons Hall To- Nor
row Night.
ARRIVAL OF MISS YATES.
Parlor Meeting at the Home of Judge
Murphy in the Interests of
Suffrage.

The first gun of the woman suffrage
by bevy of fair artlllerists tomorrow
evening.
The occasion will be the first of series
OF rallies, the second to be held at Oakland
on Thursday evening. On both occasions
Miss Susan B. Anthony, Rev. Anna H.
Shaw, Miss Elizabeth U. Yates. Miss
Harriet May Mills and Miss Mary Garrett
Hay will speak. Mrs. Ellen c. Sargent,
president of the State Suffrage Associa-
ton, and Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, chairman
of the amendment campaign committee,
will divide the duties of presiding officer.
The monetary and suffrage questions
will both receive attention.
Miss Yates, the last of the quintet of
Eastern women who will participate act
lively in the campaign, arrived yesterday
morning, and with Miss Hay and Miss
Mills is staying at the Berkshire. Her
biography and picture appeared in THE
CALL a week ago. Miss Mills and Miss
Hay, who are to repeat the work of manag
ing a series of county conventions in New
York, have been in the City several days.
Miss Mills is from Syracuse, n. Y, and is
graduate of Cornell University.
I'VE are all misses. you see," was Miss
Anthony:s comment upon the personnel of
the party, $50 you see there are no button
less sockless husbands at home bereft of
our ministrations. You see too that New
York, Pennsylvania, Maine and Indiana
are all represented.
"Our campaign is directed solely against
the adjective male as used in limiting the
franchise in your constitution. Here is
the amendment as the Legislature SUBJ
mits it:
[Adopted March16. 1881
Resolved by the assembly. the Senate concurring,
That the Legislature of the State of California,
al its regular session commencing on the
seventh day of January, Ammo Domini one thou
sand eight hundred and ninety-fve. two-thirds
of the members elected to each of the two
houses voting in favor thereof. hereby propose
that section of article II of the Constitution
of the State of California be amended to read
as follows:
SECTION l. Every native citizen of the United
| States. every person who shall have acquired
the rights OF citizenship under or b. virtue of
the treaty of Queretaro, and every naturalized
citizen thereof, who shall have become such
ninety days prior to any election, OF the age OF
81 years, who shall have been a resident of
the State one year next preceding the election,
and OF the county OF which he or she claims
to vote ninety days, and in the election pre-
cinct thirty days, shall be entitled to vote at
all elections which are now or may hereafter
be authorized by law; provided, no native of
China, no idiot, insane person, or person
convicted OF any INFAMOUS CriHe, anu no per-
son hereafter convicted of the embeZzlement
or misappropriation of public money, and no
person who shall not be able to read the con-
stitution in the English language, and write
his or her name, shall ever exercise the privi-
lege of an elector in this State; provided, that
the provisions of this amendment relative to
an educational qualification shall not apply to
| any person prevented by physical disability
! from complying with its requisition, nor to
| any person who now has the right to vote, nor
to any person who shall be 90 years of age and
upward at the time this amendment shall take
| effect.
! This amendment will be submitted to the
voters in November, 1896. II it receives a ma
jority OF the votes cast thereon at that election
! it will be a part of the constitution without
! further proceedings. The proposed amend
! ment is printed in the statutes of California
! for the year 1895, page A53. 1t reads the same
! as article H. section /, of the amended eonsti-
tuition of California, except that the word
"personp is substituted for male the words
che or she for "he' and the words ..his or
! herr for his
The next ten days will be spent in the
City by the ladies mentioned, and they
will be busted in two lines of activity. A
committee of which Mrs. Judge Murphy is
chairman has been formed for the purpose
of inaugurating a series of parlor meet