The sun., 1899-04-02
WoMAS SUFFRAGE IN NErADA.
A Setback In One state Close to Others
which Allow Women to Vote.

The Nevada Legislature. which has recently
adjourned the limit OF legislative sessions In
Nevada Is sixty daysl. repealed q statute to
prevent corruption at elections. refused to re-
peal the law legalizing prizenghts and re-
jected resolution for q woman suffrage
amendment such as exists in other Western
and Northwestern States. In Utah. to the east
OF Nevada. full suffrage to women on equal
terms with men exists, and Wyoming. in the
same section Of country. was the pioneer State
for woman suffrage. establishing it in 1870
when Territory and retaining provision for
1t In the State Constitution. Idaho and Colo
rado two other neighboring States quite SINH
lar to Nevada in their political conditions. have
woman suffrage. and there is qualified wo-
man suffrage for school officers in Oregon and
Montana and Washington.
Nevada, however, Is an exception. and the
agitation for suffrage In the Sage Brush State
has mado no headway. Nevada Is one Of the
States which have biennial sessions Of the Leg
islature and no relief from the adverse action
OF the recent Carson Legislature in the mat
ter OF woman suffrage can. therefore. he
looked for until 1901. the year succeeding the
next national census and the year following
the next Presidential election. For one reason
I would seen, probable that the legislators OF
sition 70 extend tho electorate by some sweep
Ing addition. for Nevada ia practically the only
SJHte Wnlcn nnSH ulHllnlSllnR NDtlng
were 10000 voters in Nevada: now there are
only 10000, Some other. States iStates in the
East have. 1t Is true. made only small advance
In voting population during the same period,
notably Vermont and New HAMPSHIRE. in con.
from both. and the existence OF ruinous com
petition In farming lands. which has reduced
and New Hampshire, rural districts; but. whilc
neither state has gained much in voting popu-
lationn, neither safe has diminished
nN rin N Inaa
ous advantages for emierants the population
has actually fallen off. and the voting popula-
ton is 20 per cent. less, than it was twenty five
years ago The neghhorng stares generally.
even those which are increasing. in actual pop
u'ation; have extended the suffrage hut Ne
d1 hG ffSfsrS9 them mHkes no
hans the recent action tor rather non; action,
Of its Legislatpre most curious is the fact
the female population frequently urged
osass to tbm SuaSs does No.
il Colorado 6s to 100; in Idaho "a to 100; in
in Wyoming, 81 to, 100, and in Montana. so
to 1o0-1 to,2. In all the States. with the ex-
sseptop% s % OF bNeyada; Tnman suffrage in some
Peril las described by the anti-suffrae sta Of
"the men being outvoted by the women does
not exist in Nevada either. but that crcum-
stance has not been the means Of aiding the
agitation ,hi,t c. for woman suffrage 1t has been
Perhaps. i is urged. II there was woman
suffrage in Nevada az in some other neighhor-
relic Of 1881. would be overhaulsd Nevada
was one OF the first of the States to adopt an
antiotreating" law. making 1t an offence for
was not success in operation and was after
ward repealed-as probably it would not have
Utah Legislature has. female members to vote t
and speak on the proposition.