and make a model State of it by sending a
woman Senator to the National capitol. She would go there, if she
had time, but her mission was in the States until this great
reform was accomplished. She desired women to become members of
the National organization, and to pay their dollar, or
twenty-five, or twenty-five hundred dollars. She requested the
Finance Committee to take their pencils and paper, and canvass
the hall for membership and money, commencing at the door, so as
to catch every fugitive. She invited all ladies who visit New
York to call at the Woman's Bureau, and her own sanctum, the
editorial rooms of _The Revolution_.

At the second evening session, letters[130] were read from Senators
Ross, of Kansas, and Carpenter, of Wisconsin.

Miss JENNIE COLLINS, of Lowell, Mass., addressed the meeting in a
speech of some length, which was broken by frequent applause. She
came to plead the cause of the working women, her associates. She
knew the dignity of the kitchen, many of whose occupants were the
daughters of refined and wealthy parents. If these girls could
tell their story to the ladies of Washington, they would not rest
till Congress had conceded to them their rights. The sufferings
of the factory girls could hardly be described; poor wages for
hard labor, in dirty rooms, shut out from bright sunshine, with
dreary homes, were but part of their misery. With a love of the
ennobling and beautiful, a natural taste for reading and study,
many of them were led astray from the path of virtue by the
artifices of men, often the sons of their own employers, and
nothing was done to prevent their fall.

The President announced that so great was the interest evinced, that a
third day's session had been arranged.

THIRD DAY--MORNING.--Among the large and fashionable audience present
were the Governor of Wyoming Territory, many Senators and Members of
Congress, as well as other distinguished persons. Mrs. GRIFFING read
an interesting letter from Mrs. Frances D. Gage:

More than one-half of the "people," are to-day without the
right of franchise, and can exert no power in the
government, and have no voice in electing its
representatives. They have no voice in making the laws under
which they live. If they commit offenses they are punished
the