Evening star., 1896-01-28

MISS Anthony brought the nearing 20
close with one of her characteristic speeches
and this was followed by brief passage-at-
arms between her and Chairman Henderson,
who took the ground that, while he had al
ways been suffragist himself. he did not
think the time was ripe to give 1t to women
Tor the reason that they do not want 1t.
on THE SENATE SIDE.
| The Women Orators Receive Help
From Senator PETER.
| The woman sufrra gists. under the general
| ship of Rev. DIR. Shaw, occupied the marble
room on the Senate side of the Capitol to
| the exclusion of all others this morning.
Their hearing by the Senate committee was
| to have begun at 10 o'clock. table was
| put across tie upper end of the long, mar
| row room for the occupancy of the commit
| tee. and the room was provided with rows of
| seats for the lady liberators At 10 o'clock
| the women were all on hand with their logic
and their manuscripts. But the committee
were not on hand. The picturesque assem-
| blage chatted quietly among themselves
and waited with patience for twenty or
twenty-five minutes Still the committee
| table was not occupied DR.. Shaw suggested
| at this point that there was one thing they
could congratulate themselves upon. 1--WE
are on time" she said. "All women are not
| always be on time because they often have
| 10 wait for their husbands
| Mr.. PETER Appears.
| At half-past 10 Senator PETER was seen
| rapidly climbing the hill to the Capitol
| Some one reported this, and DR.. Shaw
| announced to the assembled suffrasists that
| the coming committee was casting its
| shadow before. A few minutes later Sena-
! tor PETER appeared and took his seat at
| the committee table. He smiled upon TIE
| women 1nde they greeted his arrival with
| applause. But he was alone, and the hear
| ing could not proceed. 1t was twenty-five
! minutes, TO al when the next member of the
| committee appeared. This Mr.. Call
| of Florida, and on his arrival it was de-
| deded that they had better go on with the
| hearing. ami not wait for the chairman of
the committee. Senator Hoar. 1t was we'll
| they did this, for the hearing was over and
| Mr.. PETER was making a few closing re-
| marks to the assemblage when MIR. Hoar
| arrived. y, ..
| yTNDmen In Command.
From the hour set for the hearing until
all was over the women were in complete
command 8f the lobby By order of the
| sergean TIA farms no one was admitted to
| the precincts without the permission of the
| woman in command of the little army of
| liberia tors. .s'
| If those who are in the habit of talking
| of short-haired strong-minded, masculine
| women who want to vote could have looked
| over this assembiage they would have been
| compelled to- modify their views, or to come
| TO the conclusion that they had got into the
| wrong place.
| The funny mans" woman suffragist was
| not there. 1t was an aSsemblage of various
| ages; some white-haired and some blooming
! in youth: some pretty, some piain;- some
1 griish, some Neutrality-suspicious., married
| women. old maids and young maids. They
! were modest, earnest, inteiligent-looking
! women, and, what many women regard as
more important, they were styishly
dressed There was nothing new in this to
| the committee of Congress, who have from
| year to year granted hearings to the suf-
| fraglsts and become used to seeing women
I of the best class in home life appear be-
| fore them in this cause.
| New Faces and New Speeches.
But there was an unusual number Of new
| faces in the assemblage and some of those
| who were to speak had to acknowledge
| that they had not yet acquired the art of
| talking in public.
| The diffidence of these was scarcely less
eloquent in the CAUSE than some Of the
| remarkable argumentative powers of other
speakers. During the wait for the commit
i tee some of those who wanted to deliver
| freehand addresses, but were rot sure Of
| their memory, dived their hands every now
ard then down into the mysterious folds of
| their gowns and drew out manuscripts,
| which they scanned cautiously.
Hearing From States.
The idea was to hear from some repre-
! sentative of each state Of the Union. and
| the addresses were consequently limited to
| five minutes or less. Some who had not
| got used to talking We're embarrassed and
| occupied but part of even that brief time.
| but each one got in her earnest plea in
/ some form for the liberation of her SEX
and reminded the committee that taxation
| without representation was as unjust to
! women as to men, and that an intelligent
woman was better qualified to have a
voice in the government than were GRIM
| inals, insane persons idiots and minor
| boys During the course of the speeches
| Mr. PETER frequently interjected some ex-
| preston Of his approval of the remarks
| and his sympathy with the cause. When
| the representatives of the states did not
| speak the manuscript of their speeches was
| submitted, out there were but two or three
cases where the remarks were not delivered
| in person.
! The Speakers.
| The speakers were all introduced by DR..
| Shaw, and were called on in the order Of
! states The speakers were Mrs. Elizabeth
! D. Baccns Connecticut; Mary Elizabeth Mil
| ligan, Delaware; Mrs. Ellen Powell. Dis
| trict Of Columbia; Mrs. Frank Hubbard,
| Illinois; Sally Clay Bennett Kentucky;
| Caroline H. Miller, Maryland Lavinia A.
Hatch, ;sM4sssaehusetts; Mary Stocking
Kraggs Ats higan; g1;n julia nh b Nelson Minnee
Roscoe C6nkling), Missouri DIR. Mary Hus-
| sey, New Jersey; Helen Morris Lewis,
| North Carolina; Mrs. r. w. southard,
| Oklahoma; Mrs. Blankenburg, Pennsylva-
| ria Mrs. Mary N. Chase, Vermont, and
| Ora Langhorne. Virginia. Manuscripts
were submitted by Mrs. Mary Arnold,
Rhode Island, and Mrs Virginia D. Young
| of South Carolina.
At the conclusion of the hearing DR..
| Shaw made a. brief address,, and Senator
PETER eppkE for about two minutes, deciar-
| ing thau hA thought women had an in
alienable right to suffrage.
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