The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1914-01-16
BOTH HOUSESHEAR
SUFFRAGE SPEAKERS
Mrs. Breckenridge and Miss
Clay Address Senate and
House on Subject.
GIVE WOMEN CHANCE
Point to Numerous Examples
of Beneficial Laws Enact
ed in Other States.
GIVE WOMEN CHANCE

| feature of tO-dayS session was the
| hearing given to the cause of wom-
ans suffrage in the joint session of
| he House and Senate this afternoon.
The House met in Committee of the
| Whole, with Elwood Hamilton as
| chairman.
Miss Laura Clay, of Lexington, was
! The first speaker to present the wo-
| mems needs for this ballot and gave
very thoughtful and well prepared
address on the development of wo-
mans duties as they formerly exist
| ed to. the present state of commercial
development.
Miss Clay was followed by Mrs.
Desha Breckenridge, also of Lexing--
| ton, who made a spirited appeal to
the men of Kentucky to not permit
themselves to be deceived by a wrong
notion of the word chivalry. Mrs.
Breckenridge said that Kentucky had
fallen from the leadership which it
formerly held in the development of
better ideals of government to almost
the last place.
She quoted statistics showing that
in various matters affecting the well
fare of women and in the fight against
Is
men of Kentucky have been sadly
handicapped by the mistaken notion
| on the part of men that they were
acting with chivalry toward their
women-folk.
members of the Legislature had come
face to face with the problem which
could not be avoided, although some
ir,f fI,n -
it, and perhaps were in that class of
mankind which prefers to let things
go as they are, rather than to take a
| lead In a forward movement.
She pEophesied that womans suf-
rage Is certain to come and that It
would be more to the credit OF the
State to re-assume it's old leadership
than to .og miserably along in the
rear.
The galleries. were crowded with
both men and women during the ad-
| dresses, and Mrs. Breckenridge and
Miss Clay were frequently interrupted
by vigorous applause.
At tho close of the session at noon
both Houses took a recess until to-
/ morrow morning and accepted an in
ritation to a suffrage reception at the
Capitol Hotel which is being held
rom TO 6 o'clock this afternoon.
| IN THE HOUSE.
In the House th!s morning Matt
| Walton introduced a resolution pro-
| riding fer the appointment Of COM
mittee C five to investigate the re-
ported Instances of State officials
holding more than one office and
drawing more than one salary.
The movement for increasing inter
est in the work of State University
among Inc members Of the Legisla-
ture has taken the form of inviting a
number Of members to unofficially
visit tho University during the SEES
sion. A number of friends of the
University who have been in Frank
fort are planning to make a trip to
Lexington during the coming week in
order that they may De more familiar
with the State Institution and its
needs.
The House committees which will
visit the other State Institutions have
not yet fixed the date upon which the
trips will be made.
! Fifteen bills were introduced in the
! Senate this morning.
| HUTCHCRAFT ON COMMITTEES.
The many friends of Hon. r. B.
Hutchcraft, Jr., Representative from
= Bourbon, were gratified to learn
Tuesday of his appointment on sew
eral committees by Speaker Terrell.
He occupies place on six of the
most important Of the House, appoint
ment to which was due to his recog-
nized ability. He was named chair
man of the Committee on Banks and
Banking, and is also a member of the
> Committee on Restricting; Ken
,, lucky Statutes Committee; Revenue
, and Taxation Committee; Fish and
: Game Committee and the Racing
!. Committee.
, Mr. Hutchcraft is one of the most
: promising young Democrats in the
State, and will be heard from before
/. the end of the Legislative session
He has written to a large number OF
his constituents in Bourbon regard
: ing their views on a bill to be intro
8 duced at tbs session to give cites OF
the fourth class power to adopt q
: commission form of government. The
). bill has been drawn closely from the
: act governing cities of the second
class.