The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-02-19

Chicago, Feb. 19.-The Thirty-ninti
annual convention of the National Am
erican Woman Suffrage association
which has been in session here sincs
inal meeting addresses will be be
made by Dorothy Dix of Louisiana OF
"Woman's Lack of Backbone" Caro-
line Lexow of New York, Harriet Up
ton Taylor of Warren, O., and the Rev
Anna Howard Shaw of Swarthmore
Penn, president of the association
Today's sessions were devoted to the
consideration of reports and a confer
ence on increase of membership. A
summary of the progress of the move
ment during the last seventy years
was presented. 1t shows that Ken
lucky was the first state to allow linn.
tied suffrage to m Cnro1ologi-
cally arranged, the summary is as fol
lows:
1838-Kentucky granted school suf-
frage to widows with children of
school age.
1S50-Ontaria granted suffrage TO
all women, both married and single.
1861-Kansas granted school suff-
rage to all m
1862-Sweden gave municipal sui
frage to all women.
1867 New South Wales granted
municipal suffrage to all women.
1S69.-England granted municipal
suffrage to single women and widows,
and Wyoming gave full suffrage to all
women.
1871-West Australia gave munich
pal suffrage to all women.
1875-Minnesota and Michigan
granted school suffrage tt women.
1876-Colorado gave school suffrage
to all m
1877-New Zealand granted school
suffrage to all women.
187S.-Oregon n New Hampshire
granted school suffrage to women.
Observation-Disclosures granted school
suffrage to ONE
1880-New York and Vermont gran
ted school suffrage to all women, and
South Australia gave municipal stuff
rage to m
18S1-Scotland and Iceland granted
municipal suffrage to single women
and widows.
1883-Nebraska gave school suf-
rage to ome
1884-Ontario and Tasmania grant
ed municipal suffrage to
1S86-New Brunswick and New Zea-
lond granted municipal suffrage to
women.
18S7-Kansas, Manitoba and Nova
women, Arizona, North Dakota, South
Dakota and New Jersey granted
school suffrage, and Montana gave
school suffrage to all women n
granted to all tax-paying women the
right to vote on all questions ubmit-
ted to taxpayers.
1888-England granted country suf-
frage to women and British Columbia
and the Northwest territory granted
municipal suffrage.
1SS9-Scotland gave country stuff
rage to women, and Quebec granted
municipal suffrage to single women
and widows.
1S91-Illiaois gave school suffrage
to all women.
1893-Colorado and New Zealand
gave full suffrage to women, n Con-
necticut gave school suffrage to all
1S94-Iowa granted bond suffrage,
Ohio gave school suffraee, Denmark
gave church suffrage and England
granted parish ald district suffrage
to all women, both married and sin
gle.
IS95-South Australia granted full
suffrage to all women, and Denmark
gave women the right to vote for coun
cillors.
1S96-Utah and Idaho granted full
suffrage and New York local suffrage
on tax questions.
1897-Norway gave church suffrage
to women, under certain conditions
ASSURANCE gave women the right
to vote for judges of the tribunal of
commerce.; Ireland granted women
the right to vote for all offices except
members Of parliament; Delaware
granted school suffrage to tax-paying
women. a1d Louisiana gave tax-paying
m the right 10 o on questions
submitted to taxpayers.
1900EWest Australia granted full
parliamentary suffrage to all women;
and Wisconsin gave school suffrage to
women.