The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-18
SUFFRAGE HEARING
Senate Committee Meeting Turned
Over to Miss Anthony.
STRONG PLEAS TO CONGRESS
Custom of 81 Years Observed in the
congregational NIarshalling
of Arguments.
STRONG PLEAS TO CONGRESS

washington, Feb. 18.-Delegations' repre-
senting the Womans Suffrage Association,
now In session here. appeared before COM
mlttees Of congress to-day in advocacy of
their plea that women be allowed to exercise
the right of suffrage. In the senate they APP
frage.
The meeting was presided over by Senator
Bacon of Georgia, who practically turned the
control OF the hearing over to Miss Susan B..
Anthony, who made the first address of the
day. She began by calling attention to the
fact that for thirty-four years. or seventeen
congresses, the ladies' had been coming to
congress with their pleas. but she said that
only on one occasion had their proposed
amendment to the constitution, been awarded
the honor Of being taken up in the senate for
discussion. She. therefore. made an appeal
| to be heard by the senate, expressing the con-
victlon that the women Of the country are as
much entitled to be heard as are the Flllpl-
nos, the Porto Ricans and the Hawaiians.
| She also said that the 600 women who had
been sent to the Philippines to teach were
quite well qualified to exercise the rights
of citizenship as are the men who go to
| those islands for the baser purpose Of making
| money.
| On the house side the delegation appeared
before the judiciary committee Mrs. Carrie
| C. Gait. president Of the association. eX-
I
ticularly that the foreign delegates should
describe to the committee the progress OF the
| won1an's suffrage movement in other parts
! of the world. The speakers were Mrs. Vida
| Goldstein of Australia. Mrs. Ewald Of Swe-
den. Mrs. Fredland of Russia. Mrs. FenWlck
Miller of England Isabelle Campbell OF Wy
oming Miss Theoeosia Ammons of Colorado
Mrs. Lapis of Utah. Mrs. Weaver OF ldaho
and Mrs Gait "
! Miss Goldstein, the first speaker, told of the
! struggle and success Of the Woman's suffrage
| movement in different portions Of Australia
| and explained the political status of women
! there; as we'll as the great benefits that hac
| followed the granting of the suffrage.
1.-The women of Australia she said. 'dc
not forget their homes or their babies. and
| they do not raid the public Offices She con
| cluded her appeal to the committee with this
sentence: "Austraia trusts her women; sure
| ly America can trust hers
| Mrs Fredland explained that in a country
like Russia there was. Of course, little sui
| frage, but what there was was shared equally
| by men and women. In a country where pO
,itical laws were the least liberal, those law:
were the most liberal to the civil capacities
of women. e, ..
! Mrs. Ewald of Sweden, where woman sui
i frage was older than in any other country
on earth. and Mrs. Drewson of Norway
where women paying taxes on an income %th'
equivalent OF S[Vu a year euJoy u1o5S, W.
! Of the suffrage privileges enjoyed by wome1
! in their countries. IL Sweden women en-
! ioyed the ballot before men,
Miss Campbell, who is the daughter OF tn
first governor of Wyoming, the executive
who signed the woman suffrage law, declared
that every governor of Wyoming had testlne'
that woman suffrage had worked well
I Miss Ammons of Colorado declared tina
I every woman elected to office in Colorado
had reflected credit upon her sex.