ion providing for the
submission to the legal voters of the State of Kansas of a
proposition to amend the constitution so as to admit of female
suffrage. The vote on the adoption of the resolution stood 51
ayes and 31 noes in the House, and a tie in the Senate. Later in
the same session, Hon. A. C. Pierce of Davis county introduced in
the House a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the
constitution which should confer the right of suffrage on any one
over 21 years of age who had resided in the State six months. Mr.
Hackney of Cowley county, introduced a like resolution in the
Senate.

In December, 1881, Governor St. John appointed Mrs. Cora M. Downs
one of the regents of the State University at Lawrence. In 1873,
Mrs. Rice was elected to the office of county clerk of Harper
county, and Miss Alice Junken to the office of recorder of deeds,
in Davis county. In 1885 Miss Junken was reelected by a majority
of 500 over her competitor, Mrs. Fleming, while Trego county gave
a unanimous vote for Miss Ada Clift as register of deeds.

In proportion to her population Kansas has as many women in the
professions as any of the older States. We have lawyers,
physicians, preachers and editors, and the number is constantly
increasing. In Topeka there are eight practicing physicians,
holding diplomas from medical colleges, and two or three who are
not graduates. In the Woman's Medical College of Chicago, Kansas
now has four representatives--Mrs. Sallie A. Goff of Lincoln,
Miss Thomas of Olathe, Miss Cunningham of Garnett, and Miss
Gilman of Pittsburg.

All female persons over the age of twenty-one years are entitled
to vote at any school-district meeting on the same terms as men.

The right of a woman to hold any office, State (except member of
the legislature), county, township or school-district, in the
State of Kansas, is the same as that of a man. In 1882, six
counties, viz., Chase, Cherokee, Greenwood, Labette, Pawnee, and
Woodson, elected women as superintendents of public instruction.

Section 23, Article II., Constitution of Kansas, reads: "The
legislature, in providing for the formation and regulation
of schools, shall make no distinction between males and
females."

Under the legislation based upon this clau