Mr. Correll pressed the claims of the resolution in the
first speech, and then introduced the different speakers
representing the State association. Mrs. Harriet S. Brooks
reviewed the progress of sentiment elsewhere and said that
her acquaintance and correspondence in this State led her to
think the time ripe for action of this kind. Mrs. Orpha
Clement Dinsmoor argued the abstract right of it, saying:

It has now come to the question of absolute right--whether
one class of people shall say to another: "You can come only
thus far in the direction of liberty." We realize that woman
must be educated to this new privilege, just as man has been
educated to it, and just as this nation is now educating
millions of the newly enfranchised to it. Feeling that in
intellectual and moral capacity woman is the peer of man, I
think that her actual steps forward in needful preparation
have given her the right to say who shall rule over her.

Mrs. Jennie F. Holmes based her remarks on the added
influence it would give women in securing wise legislation
in matters of welfare to the home. Clara B. Colby answered
questions of the committee. It was a most encouraging fact
that every member of the committee, after the speakers had
finished presenting the case, spoke in favor of the
amendment, except one, a Bohemian, who was suffering from
hoarseness and induced his colleague to express favorable
sentiments for him. These gentlemen all remained friendly to
the bill until its passage.

Headquarters were established in Lincoln. Mrs. Brooks remained
during the session, and Mesdames Holmes, Russell, Dinsmoor and
Colby all, or most of the time, until the act was passed,
interviewing the members and securing the promise of their votes
for the measure:

The joint resolution went through all the preliminary stages
in the House without opposition on account of the discretion
of its advocates, the watchfulness of its zealous friends
among the members, and the carefulness of Mr. Correll with
regard to all pending measures. The bill was made a special
order for February 18, 10:45 A. M., and Mrs. Brooks, Mrs.
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