Resolved_, That the thanks of the National Woman Suffrage
Association are hereby tendered to the late speaker of the House
of Representatives, Hon. Samuel J. Randall, Pa.; and to
Representatives Banks, Mass.; Blair, N. H.: Bland, Mo.; Brown,
Kan.; Cox, N. Y.; Eames, R. I.; Fenn, Col.; Hale, Me.; Hamilton,
N. J.; Hendee, Vt.; Hoar, Mass.; Holman, Ind.; Jones, N. H.;
Kasson, Iowa; Kelley, Pa. Knott, Ky.; Lane, Oregon; Lapham, N.
Y.; Lawrence, O.; Luttrel, Cal.; Lynde, Wis.; McCrary, Iowa;
Morgan, Mo.; O'Neill, Pa.; Springer, Ill.; Strait, Minn.;
Waldron, Mich.; Warren, Conn.; Wm. B. Williams, Mich.; and
Senators Allison, Iowa; Bogy, Mo.; Burnside, R. I. (for Conn. and
R. I.); Cameron, Pa.; Cameron, Wis.; Chaffee, Col.; Christiancy,
Mich.; Cockrell, Mo.; Conkling, N. Y.; Cragin, N. H.; Dawes,
Mass.; Dorsey, Ark. (a petition from Me.); Edmunds, Vt.;
Frelinghuysen, N. J.; Hamlin, Me.; Kernan, N. Y.; McCreery, Ky.;
Mitchell, Oregon; Morrill, Vt.; Morton, Ind.; Oglesby, Ill.;
Sargent, Cal.; Sherman, Ohio; Spencer, Ala. (a petition from the
District); Thurman, Ohio (a petition from Kansas); Wadleigh, N.
H.; Wallace, Pa.; Windom, Minn.; Wright, Iowa, for representing
the women of the United States in the presentation of the
sixteenth amendment petitions from ten thousand citizens, in open
House and Senate, at the last session of congress.

_Resolved_, That while we recognize with gratitude the opening of
many new avenues of labor and usefulness to women, and the
amelioration of their condition before the law in many States, we
still declare there can be no fair play for women in the world of
business until they stand on the same plane of citizenship with
their masculine competitors.

_Resolved_, That in entering the professions and other
departments of business heretofore occupied largely by men, the
women of to-day should desire to accept the same conditions and
tests of excellence with their brothers, and should demand the
same standard for men and women in business, art, education, and
morals.

_Resolved_, That the thanks of this association are hereby
tendered to the Hon. Geo. F. Hoar of Massachusetts, for rising in
his place in the Cincinnati presidential convention, and asking
in behalf of the disfranchised women of the United States that