lene; Hon. Albert Griffin, Manhattan; Mrs. A. O.
Carpenter, Emporia; Mrs. Noble Prentis, Atchison; Mrs. S. S. Moore,
Burden; Mrs. Emma Faris, Carnerio; Mrs. Houghton and Mrs. Farrer,
Arkansas City; Mrs. Finley, Topeka.

[479] The towns visited were: Beloit, Lincoln Center, Wilson,
Ellsworth, Salina, Solomon City, Minneapolis, Cawker City and
Clyde. The officers of the Topeka society were: _President_, Mrs.
Priscilla Finley; _Secretary_, Mrs. E. G. Hammon; _Treasurer_, Mrs.
Sarah Smith. The officers of Beloit were: _President_, Mrs. H.
Still; _Vice-Presidents_, Mrs. J. M. Patten, Mrs. M. Vaughan;
_Corresponding Secretary_, Mrs. F. J. Knight; _Recording
Secretary_, Mary Charlesworth; _Treasurer_, Mrs. M. Bailey. At
Salina, Mrs. Johns and Mrs. Christina Day are the officers.

[480] The women of Kansas should never forget that to the influence
of Mrs. Nichols in the Constitutional convention at Wyandotte, they
owe the modicum of justice secured by that document. With her
knitting in hand, she sat there alone through all the sessions, the
only woman present, watching every step of the proceedings, and
laboring with members to so frame the constitution as to make all
citizens equal before the law. Though she did not accomplish what
she desired, yet by her conversations with the young men of the
State, she may be said to have made the idea of woman suffrage seem
practicable to those who formed the constitution and statute laws
of that State.--[E. C. S.

[481] See compiled laws of Kansas, 79, page 378, chapter XXXIII.

[482] Miss Flora M. Wagstaff of Paoli was among the first to
practice law in Kansas. In 1881, Ida M. Tillotson of Mill Brook,
and in 1884, Maria E. DeGeer were admitted.

[483] The names of representatives voting for the committee stand
as follows: _Yeas_--Barnes, Beattie, Bollinger, Bond, Bonebrake,
Brewster, Buck, Butterfield, Caldwell, Campbell, Carter, Clogston,
J. B. Cook of Chetopa, H. C. Cook of Oswego, Collins, Cox, Currier,
Davenport, Dickson, Edwards, Faulkner, Gillespie, Glasgow, Gray,
Grier, Hargrave, Hatfield, Hogue, Hollenshead, Holman, Hopkins,
Hostetler, Johnson of Ness City, Johnson of Marshall, Johnson of
Topeka, Johnson (Speaker of the House), Kelley of Cawker City,
King, Kreger, Lawrence, Lewis, Loofburrow, Lower, McBride, McNall,
McNeal, Matlock, Maurer, Miller, Moore, Morgan of Clay, Morgan of
Osborne, Mosher, Osborn, Patton, Pratt, Reeves, Rhodes, Roach,
Roberts, Slavens, Spiers, Sim