City--Amendment carried by
large majority in 1895--Official statistics of woman's
vote--Laws--Office-holding--Women legislators--Women
delegates--Education--Clubs.
CHAPTER LXVII.
VERMONT 957-963
Organization -- Legislative action and laws -- School Suffrage --
Women office-holders -- Education -- Progressive steps.
CHAPTER LXVIII.
VIRGINIA 964-966
Agitation of suffrage question -- Laws for women -- Education --
Woman head of family.
CHAPTER LXIX.
WASHINGTON 967-979
Women enfranchised by Territorial Legislature in 1883 -- Figures
of vote -- Unconstitutionally disfranchised by Supreme Court --
Suffrage Amendment refused in Constitutional Convention for
Statehood -- Submitted separately and defeated in 1889 -- Action
of political conventions in 1896 -- Experience in Legislature --
Amendment again submitted -- Campaign of 1898 -- Defeated by
majority less than one-half that of nine years before --
Organization -- Legislative action and laws -- School suffrage --
Office-holding -- Occupations.
CHAPTER LXX.
WEST VIRGINIA 980-984
Organization -- Legislative action and laws -- Office-holding --
Education.
CHAPTER LXXI.
WISCONSIN 985-993
Organization -- Canvass of State -- Long but successful struggle
to secure School Suffrage -- Decisions of Supreme Court -- Laws
-- Women in office -- Education.
CHAPTER LXXII.
WYOMING 994-1011
First place in the United States to enfranchise women --
Territorial Legislature gave Full Suffrage in 1869 -- People
satisfied with it -- Constitutional Convention for Statehood
unanimously includes Woman Suffrage -- Strong speeches in favor
-- Fight against it in Congress -- Debate for amusement of
present and wonder of future generations -- Men of Wyoming stand
firm -- Finally admitted to the Union -- Celebration in new State
-- Honors paid to women -- Miss Anthony and the Rev. Anna Howard
Shaw visit Cheyenne -- Interesting scene -- Highest testimony in
favor of Woman Suffrage -- Legislature of 1901 urges every State
to enfranchise its women -- Women on juries -- Effects of woman's
vote -- Laws -- Office-holding.
CHAPTER LXXIII.
GREAT BRITAIN.
EFFORTS FOR PARLIAMENTARY FRANCHISE 1012-1037
Household suffrage for men proves a disadvantage to women --
Primrose Le
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