of the
House as had been most active in serving our cause. She said:

GENTLEMEN: The National Woman Suffrage and Educational Committee
desire me to express to you their heartfelt thanks for the good
service you have rendered the whole woman movement by your
willingness to entertain, examine, and, in some instances,
advocate our new claim that we are already enfranchised under the
original Constitution and the XIV. and XV. Amendments.

To you, Mr. Julian, we are especially indebted, in that while you
were the first member of the House who introduced our claim to
the suffrage under the form of a XVI. Amendment, you were in the
front once more when a new issue was presented in the shape of
the "Woodhull Memorial." Your resolution asking the House "to
participate in the proceedings," by which two women citizens of
the United States "might present the moral and constitutional
argument in favor of the enfranchisement of the women citizens of
the United States, and in support of a memorial lately reported
upon by a majority and minority of the Judiciary Committee," was
in keeping with every other act of your public life, a protest
against injustice, a proposition looking toward perfect equality;
and we thank you for it in the name of the disfranchised millions
who will one day realize, as they now do not, the significance of
that act.

To you, Mr. Arnell, we owe not only the passage of "A bill to do
justice to the female employes of the Government," but the first
admission of women to this Capitol as citizens having common
rights with the ruling class in the use of buildings devoted to
the public service. In your committee-room we found not only a
home, but such courtesy, such opportunity for friendly
consultation with members of Congress upon subjects of deepest
political importance, as must forever silence the absurd charge
that men and women will cease to regard the decorums of life, to
interchange its happy civilities when they become equally
responsible for the welfare of the State.

To other gentlemen of the House we owe thanks also for their
co-operation with you in this manly service, especially to
General Wilson, of Ohio, to Mr. Morrill, of Pennsylvania, and
General Butler, of Massachusetts, who have, as chairmen of their
resp