Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-28
suFFaAcETTEs AND ANfis
 AT MEAaiNo TUESDAY


 suFFRAcEITEs AND ANTts
 AT HEARiNo TUESDAY Wsre Present ia Earse Nursbsrs to
 Plead Their Respective csesss.
 several members es the legislature were given preference at the hearing day by reason of having to attend other hearings, before matters in which the large nunfhcr of women in attendance were specially interested Mir. Fsenton of WTllimaatic spoke in favor of the display of the American flag at polling places. stating that the bill emanated from the Spanish Amer ican war veterans. The hearing of the judiciary committee was held in the hall of the house and nearly every antfs. the former predominating. The committee took up the matters as- signed in their order as appearing in the legislative bulletin.
 The first matter was an act concern ing the preparation. form and use of the ballot, which provides for change in the instructions on the sample bal lot. with special reference to the vote for representatives, which should in- struct that a cross be affixed by the voter for each representative voted for. It was explained by MT. Shaw. The next bill related to the removal of electors from one voting district to another, and for which there was no appearance. Another bill concerned the voting residence of an elector. with special reference to residents of Sol diers' home, and would require return to their home towns to vote. MT. Val- entine and MT. Saunders spoke in ad- vocacy of the display of the flag at voting places. and the bill had the endorsement of the United Spanis4 War Veterans.
 The bill concerning the correction of registry lists provides that those who are away from home must notify the registrars if the names be retained on the list. Mir. laohenthaI spoke on the bill concerning the distribution of po- litical propaganda in public voting concerning the qualifications of voters to be made The list of names to be made under the present understanding requires that the names to be made must be with the registrars 20 days before their meeting, and Mir. Fox wanted the law changed so that appli- cations could be received at any time until the registrars adjourn. He said by the rule that prevails. there were 50 men in New London Who were de- prived Of the honor of voting for President Wilson.
 Senator Hemenway explained the bill concerning lobbyists which he said would make the business honorable reg ister. The bills coucerning campaign contributions, political literature and political advertisements, presented by Senator Sullivan, were not discussed. The act concerning electors was asked to be amended so that it would re. quire 12 months residence to qualify as an efector. to fit New Haven or Yale, and was explained by Corpora ton Counsel Kiemer. The bill also required that none but an elector Rnp nfs made an eiector.
 The bill concerning the qualifica- lions of women voters was finally reached, and for the first time in over two years the voice of women was heard in the hall of the house of rep first matter called in which the worn- en were interested was the bill ao per- init women to vote on the liquor Ii- cense question. and also on the bill that gives women the right to vote at Presidential and municipal elections, which could be granted without amendment to constitution. Chairman kleet of the committee announced that the suffraEettes would be given an hour, the antis an hour and a half. and then half an hour for rebuttal.
 MT. Hohentha1, legislative represent tive of matters in favor of prohibition, Conducted the nearing. Rev. Hugh CaIlum, pastor Of the Cengregational
 
 Congregational church of the state, was the first speaker and stated that women should participate in .l.e affairs Of home and state. There are women drinks and would like a fighting chance to better conditions and their homes.
 Mrs. Caroline B. Buell. of East Hampton. president of the Woman's Christian Temperance union. said she was at the hearing representing 4.00e women of the stats, and she believed every one or the women would stand by her at the hearing in advocacy of the passage of the bill that would give to women the right to vote on the only thoroughly in sympathy with the license bill but also the other bill be- fore the comInfttee in which the women are interested. She asked the commit from the evil effects of the liquor lraf- fc and realize that if the committee should deetde 1t was the mother and the children of the home. She said she stood as the widow of . man who served his country in the Civil war in the long ago, and he protected her and hers, and she thought 1t but right that the state should protect the boys, the s girls; the women , nnm the s bad l, effects seeefled the committees to do what they could to give women the right to vote on the liquor Hcense question.
 Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn, president of the Equal SH6rG4e association of grant to women presidential and mu- nfcipal suffrage. This law prevails in Ohio and woman Sunrnge has stfmu- lated the interest Of both men and women in public questions. and public questions are diRcussed in the home. She said woman suffrage ts the next national step tn the evolution of gov- and the natural step in the of women. In tho colo niai days only church members Of . certain church could vote, and after the Revolutionary var the state con- stitution limited the suffrage to men who paid taxee on q ceftain amount of chanHed and there ia Genaxa1 evoia- ton that will result in giving to wom- en their full rights.