after five years of persistent appeal to Congress by
Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, and the enactment of a law, by overwhelming
majorities in both Houses, prohibiting the Supreme Court from denying
admission to lawyers on account of sex, that this act of justice was
accomplished.

[22] This committee was composed of Senators Cockrell (Mo.), Fair
(Nev.), Brown (Ga.), Anthony (R. I.), Blair (N. H.), Palmer (Mich.),
Lapham (N. Y.).

[23] J. Randolph Tucker, Va.; Nathaniel J. Hammond, Ga.; David B.
Culberson, Tex.; Samuel W. Moulton, Ills.; James O. Broadhead, Mo.;
William Dorsheimer, N. Y.; Patrick A. Collins, Mass.; George E. Seney,
O.; William C. Maybury, Mich.; Thomas B. Reed, Me.; Ezra B. Taylor,
O.; Moses A. McCoid, Ia.; Thomas M. Browne, Ind.; Luke P. Poland, Vt.;
Horatio Bisbee, Jr., Fla.

[24] Their report, dated April 23, 1884, was used entire by Senator
Brown in the debate on woman suffrage which took place in the Senate
of the United States January 25, 1887, and will be found in Chapter
VI, which contains also a portion of the majority report included in
the speech of Senator Blair.

[25] Would the men whose crimes very often have sent these "female
litigants" into the courts, be willing to have their cases tried
before a jury of women?

CHAPTER IV.

THE NATIONAL SUFFRAGE CONVENTION OF 1885.[26]

The Seventeenth of the national conventions was held in Lincoln Hall,
Washington, D. C., Jan. 20-22, 1885, preceded by the usual brilliant
reception, which was extended by Mr. and Mrs. Spofford each season for
the twelve years during which the association had its headquarters at
the Riggs House.

It is rather amusing to note the custom of the newspaper reporters to
give a detailed description of the dress of each one of the speakers,
usually to the exclusion of the subject-matter of her speech. On this
occasion the public was informed that one lady "spoke in dark bangs
and Bismarck brown;" one "in black and gold with angel sleeves,
boutonniere and ear-drops;" another "in a basque polonaise and snake
bracelets;" another "in black silk dress and bonnet, gold eye-glasses
and black kid gloves." One lady wore "a small bonnet made of
gaudy-colored birds' wings;" one "spoke with a pretty lisp, was
attired in a box-pleated satin skirt, velvet newmarket basque
polonaise, hollyhock corsage bouquet;" another "addressed the meeting
in low tones and a poke bonnet;" still another "discussed the question
in a velvet bonn