and Goodwill, who reported it back without recommendation.
It was afterwards considered in committee of the whole, then
taken up by the Senate. Reavis moved it be taken up for
third reading on the following day. The yeas and nays being
demanded the motion was lost by a vote of 6 to 7. On motion
of Mr. Stevenson the matter was referred to the Judiciary
Committee, with the usual result of neglect and oblivion.

In the autumn of 1867 Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony lectured in
Omaha and sowed seed which bore fruit in the large number of
petitions sent later from that city. In December 1870, Mrs. Tracy
Cutler gave several addresses in Lincoln. Miss Anthony lectured
January 28, 1871, on "The False Theory," and before leaving the
city looked in on the legislature, which promptly extended to her
the privilege of the floor. A number of ladies met Miss Anthony
for consultation, and took the initiatory steps for forming a
State association. A meeting was appointed for the following
Friday, when it was decided to memorialize the legislature. The
memorial was headed by Mrs. Lydia Butler, wife of the governor of
the State, who spent some days in securing signatures. A lively
pen-picture of those times is furnished by private correspondence
of Mrs. Esther L. Warner of Roca:

The first work done for woman suffrage in Lincoln was in
December, 1870. Mrs. Tracy Cutler stopped when on her way to
California, and gave several addresses in Lincoln. Her
womanliness and logic won and convinced her hearers, and had
a marked effect upon public sentiment. There are men and
women to-day in Nebraska who date their conversion to the
cause of equal rights from those lectures. Some steps were
taken towards organization, but the matter was dropped in
its incipient stages. During the same winter Miss Susan B.
Anthony lectured in Lincoln, and presented a petition to be
signed by women, asking to be allowed to vote under the
fourteenth amendment. She also called a meeting of ladies in
a hotel parlor and aided in organizing a State suffrage
society. Her rare executive ability accomplished what other
hands would have failed to do, for the difficulties in the
way