The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-07-04

of executive sessions, Chat the press |
chairmen were admitted to the ses-
sions, the national president, DR..
Shaw, making this proviso, as a |
necessary protection against exploit
tation of matters with which the pub
lie had no concern. The executive !
board gave out to the Associated
Press all important resolutions, with
which you are doubtless already IA
miliar.
Two Main Issues.
The two main issues before the
national association during the ses-
sions held at the LaSa1le hotel were
the differences in the policies of the
congressional committee of the Ma
tional American Equal Suffrage AS
sociation, and the Congressional
Union, and the question of the two
amendments-the Bristow Mondel
amendment, and the Shafroth amend
ment. AS the work of the Congress
sional Union touches upon the two
amendments, it may be well, in this
informal report, to reverse the pro-
cedure of the conference, and first
discuss the two amendments, and the
ways in which they differentiate, and
their bearing upon the work of the
congressional commute of the nation
al body, and the work of the Congress
sional Union, then taking up the diff
ferences that exist in the policies of
the two congressional bodies, only
one of which has any official recog-
milton from the national association,
this being, of course, the congression-
al committee of the national associa-
ton.
Doubtless everyone is more or less
familiar with the differences between
the BristowMondefl amendment and
the Shafroth amendment, but for pur-
poses of convenience, I will insert
here the fundamental differences in
these two amendments:
Bristow- MOndel Amendment.
The Bristow-M ondel amendment,
Familiarity spoken of as the Susan B.
Anthony amendment, was drafted by
Miss Susan B. Anthony in 1875, and
. was introduced into Congress in 1878,
and has gone to every session of Con-
gress since that time.
At the request of DR.. Shaw, this
amendment was spoken of during the
conference, and will be known in the
future, as the Bristow- Mondel amend
ment, to avoid confusion and to also
avoid any appearance of Grading
with the sentiment induced by the use
of Miss Anthony's name, in refer.
ring to the Bristow-Mondel amend.
ment, which reads as follows:
The Bristow- Mondel Amendment.
Section /. The right of citizens Of
the United States to vote shall not b.
denied or abridged by the UniteC
States or by any state on account o.
sex.
: Section 2. The Congress shall hav,
power, by appropriate legislation, t,
enforce the provisions of this arti
Gle.
The Shaforth Amendment.
The text of the Shaforth resolution
is as follows:
Whenever any number of legal vot
ers of any state to number exceed
ing per centum of the number o
legal voters voting at the last pre-
I ceding general election held in sucl
state shall petition for the submits
sion to the legal voters of said stat
of the question whether women shall
have equal rights with men in re
spect to voting at all elections to b
] held in such states such question shal
|. be so submitted, and if, upon sue
q submission majority of the legs
d voters of the state voting on the ques
. ton shall vote in favor of granting t
women such equal rights, the sam
shall thereupon be deemed establish
ed, anything in the constitution o
>. laws Of such state to the contrary not
= withstanding.
Il Analysis.
HI The analyses of the situation woul
| be, briefly stated:
Ii To get suffrage state must:
II 1. Procure the submission to tn
electorate of constitutional amend
= ment.
Il 2. With the essential number c
, votes to insure its passage at tn
: polls.
The shafroth amendment has tn