Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-02-20
WOMEN SEEK SUFFRAGE
Delegates From Convention Appear
Before Committees Of Congress.
A, PLEA BY MISS ANTHONY
She Declares American Women Have
as Much Right to BE Heard as
FiiipinOH. Porto Ricans
and Hawniians.

Washington, Feb. 49, - Delegations
representing the WOman's Suffrage as
ISOLATION, now in session here. appear
ed before committees of congress IN
advocacy of their plea that women be
allowed to exercise the right of suf-
frage.
In the senate they appeared before
the committee on woman suffrage.
The meeting was presided over by
Senator Bacon of Georgia, who prac-
tically turned the control of the hear
ing over to Miss Susan g. Anthony.
who made the first address of the day.
She began by calling attention to the
fact that for thirtyfour years or sew
enteen congresses the Indies have 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 dis
cuSSOn.
She therefore made an appeal to be
conviction that the women of the ,coun-
try are as much entitled to be heard as
are the Filpnos. the Porto Ricans and
the Hawaiians. She also SAID that the
600 women who had been sent to the
philippines to teach were quite as well
d.. lied to exercise the rights of citi-
zenship as are the men who go TO
those islands for the baser purpose of
making money.
House Committee Hearing.
On the house side the delegation ap-
peared before the judiciary committee,
Mrs. Carrie c. Gait, who has just been
reelected president Of the association.
explained to the committee that she de-
sired particularly that the foreign del
egates should describe to the commit
tee the progress of the woman suffrage
movement in other parts of the world.
The speakers were Miss Vida Gold
stein of Australia. Mrs. Evald of SWc-
den Mrs. Freedland of Russia. Mrs.
Fenwick Miller of England. Isabelle
Campbell of Wyoming, Miss TheOdosia
Ammons of Colorado Mrs. Lapsh Of
Utah, Mrs. Weaver of Idaho and Mrs,
Gait.
Miss Goldstein told of the struggle
and success of the woman suffrage
movement in different portions of Aus
tralia and explained the political status
of women there. as well as the great
benefits that had followed the granting
of the suffrage to women. The predic
tons of the adversaries of woman suf
frage had utterly failed, she declared.
THE women Of Australia" she said.
do not forget their homes or their ba
bies, and they don't raid the public of
fees She concluded her appeal to the
committee with this sentence. Austria
liza trusts her women; surely America
can trust hers
The situation In Russia.
Mrs. Freedland explained that in
country like Russia there was. of
course, little suffrage, but what there
was was shared equally by men and
women. In a country whose political
laws were the least liberal those laws
were the most liberal to the civil ca
pacitleS of women.
Mrs. Evald of Sweden. where woman
suffrage was older than in any country
on earth. and Mrs. Drewson of Nor
way, where women paying taxes on an
income of the equivalent of 500 year
enjoy suffrage. told of the suffrage
privileges possessed by women in their
country. In Sweden women enjoyed
the ballot before men.
Miss Campbell, who is the daughter
of the first governor of Wyoming, the
executive who signed the woman suf
frage law, declared that every gov
ernor of Wyoming had testified that
woman suffrage. had worked WELL.
Miss Ammons of Colorado declared
that every woman elected to office in
Colorado had reflected credit upon her
sex.