ke's satire on the Rights of Men -- Isabella
Beecher Hooker on the Constitutional Rights of Women -- Woman of
the Present and Past -- Delegate Joseph M. Carey on Woman
Suffrage in Wyoming -- Authority of Congress to Enfranchise Women
-- Zerelda G. Wallace on Woman's Ballot a Necessity for the
Permanence of Free Institutions; the lack of morality in
Government has caused the downfall of nations -- Resolutions --
U. S. Treasurer Spinner first to employ women in a Government
department.

CHAPTER VIII.

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN -- HEARING OF 1888 124-142

Origin of the Council -- Call issued by National Suffrage
Association -- Official statistics of this great meeting --
Eloquent sermon of the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw on the Heavenly
Vision; release of woman from bondage of centuries, crucifixion
of reformers, the visions of all ages -- Miss Anthony opens the
Council -- Mrs. Stanton's address; psalms of women's lives in a
minor key, sympathy as a civil agent powerless until coined into
law, women have been mere echoes of men -- Council demands all
employments shall be open to women, equal pay for equal work, a
single standard of morality -- Forming of permanent National and
International Councils -- Convention of Suffrage Association --
Mrs. Stanton expounds National Constitution to Senate Committee
and shows the violation of its provisions in their application to
women -- Mrs. Ormiston Chant makes address -- Also Julia Ward
Howe -- Frances E. Willard pleads for enfranchisement.

CHAPTER IX.

THE NATIONAL SUFFRAGE CONVENTION OF 1889 143-157

Official Call shows non-partisan character of the demand for
Woman Suffrage -- Senator Blair makes clear presentation of
woman's right to vote for Representatives in Congress under the
Federal Constitution -- Mrs. Stanton ridicules women for passing
votes of thanks to men for restoring various minor privileges
which they had usurped -- Hebrew Scriptures not alone the root of
woman's subjection -- Representative William D. Kelley speaks --
Foreign and Catholic vote contrasted with American and Protestant
-- The Position of Woman in Marriage -- Miss Anthony on Woman's
Attempt to Vote under the Fourteenth Amendment -- The Coming Sex
-- Woman's Bill of Rights -- Favorable report from Committee,
Senators Bl