The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-02-24
HEARING GIVEN
To the Advocates of a Depart
ment Of Commerce.
The Woman Suffragists Also Given a
Hearing by the Senate Committee.


The Addresses We're Pleas, Direct or Indi. !,
rect, for the Granting of Franchises to
Women-senor Dupuy DE LONE aud
Suit Leave Washington
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-The house
Interstate and foreign commerce COM
mittee Tuesday gave hearing to adj
vocates of the establishment of de-
partment of commerce. A statement
was presented signed by Alden
Spearer, chairman of the committee
of the National Board of Trade and +.
B. Thurber, w. s. Shallenbarger and
E. H. Haskell, of the committee of
Associated Boards of Trade of Boston,
and Chas. E. Adams, president of the
Massachusetts State Board of Trade.
This statement declared that other de-
partments were established by the
demands and exigencies of the busi-
ness of the government, and that the
time had arrived when another depart
ment should be created. The many
advantages to commerce by the crea-
tion of such depar rtment was pointed
out, among them the growth of the
manufacturing and producing in
terests of the country The COM
mercial interests, they said, could be
greatly benefited by a seat at the
cabinet table and it would be relief
to other departments.
The senate committee on equal suf.
frage Tuesday granted a hearing in
the senate marble room to large del
egation of ladies from the National
Woman Suffrage association now in
convention in this city, Senator'S
Berry, Wetmore, Teller, Cannon and
McLauren being present. The marble
room was crowded.
The addresses were all pleas, direct
or indirect, for the granting of the
franchise to women. The house COM
mittee also accorded the delegation q
hearing.
Miss Susan B. Anthony, the president
in which she pointed out the full suf-
frage already granted in three British
colonies, the Isle of Man, New Zea-
land and South Australia. She re.
ferred to the many voters less qualified
than intelligent women, spoke of ig-
noramuses who held elective fran
chise, and said the government which
refused women any right of suffrage
was casting the ballot privileges un-
asked on foreigners reaching our
shores and extending them the fran
chise practically unasled.
The late Spanish minister, Senior
Dupuy De LONE, accompanied by Mime.
De LONE, their two sons and Spanish
valet left Washington at o'clock Tues
day afternoon for New York, whence
they sail Wednesday for Liverpool. A
large delegation from the diplomatic
corps, accompanied by their wives,
gave hearty au revoir at the station
to their late associate.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.-The Maine
incident formed the principal topic of
consideration by the senate committee
on foreign relations at its meeting We'd
nesday. The affair was not officially
before the committee, but it was never
theless allowed to displace almost all
other business. The opinion generally
expressed by members of the commit
tee in this informal conference were
to the effect that the occurrence is one
of very serious import and that it may
result in grave complications unless
Spain can make it very plain that no
Spaniard was in any way responsible
for it. A prominent member of the
committee said after the close of the
meeting that Spain would be expected
to make an explanation that would en-
tirely clear up the mystery, and that if
she did not this country would have a
right to demand such an explanation.
Most of the members of the commi ttee
refused after the conference to express
any opinion concerning the occurrence.
The house Wednesday promptly took
up the bankruptcy bill Gen. Hender'
son, of Iowa, opened with a long ex
planatory speech.
The senate, Wednesday, ignored the
Maine disaster, and considered a reso-
luton to prevent confirmation of the
Kansas Pacific railroad agreement.
Death of Miss. Isabella Franklin Jones.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Feb. 16.-Miss
Isabella Franklin Jones, one of the
leading Christian Scientists of the
United States, who came to this city
two months ago from Chicago, is dead
of pneumonia, complicated with
measles. She did not have physician
during her illness, and when the cast
was reported to Coroner Bedford he
determined to make an investigation
Miss Jones was As years of age, and
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