January 10th, at 11
o'clock.

_To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States in Congress assembled:_

The undersigned, citizens of the United States, believing that
under the present Federal Constitution all women who are citizens
of the United States have the right to vote, pray your honorable
body to enact a law during the present session that shall assist
and protect them in the exercise of that right.

And they pray further that they may be permitted, in person, and
in behalf of the thousands of other women who are petitioning
Congress to the same effect, to be heard upon this memorial
before the Senate and House at an early day in the present
session. We ask your honorable body to bear in mind that while
men are represented on the floor of Congress, and so may be said
to be heard there, women who are allowed no vote, and therefore
no representation, can not truly be heard except as Congress
shall open its doors to us in person.

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.
ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER.
ELIZABETH L. BLADEN.
OLYMPIA BROWN.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
JOSEPHINE S. GRIFFING.

Hartford, Conn., December 12, 1871.

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SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY,}
WASHINGTON, January 10, 1872 }

MADAM: The Committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the
memorial of yourself and others, asking to be heard before the
Senate in behalf of the constitutional right of women to vote,
and modified by your letter of this morning, so as to ask that
the committee hold a public meeting in the Senate Chamber for
that purpose, have concluded that it would not be consistent with
the usage and rules of the Senate to admit memorialists to appear
and advocate their claims before the Senate, nor for the
committee to ask the use of the Senate Chamber for public
discussion before them.

The committee would, however, be happy to receive any
communication you and the other memorialists may think proper to
make, or, if the memorialists prefer to present their views in
person, the committee will hear them in its committee-room at 11
o'clock A.M., next Friday morning.

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