Hon. H. W. Scott, editor of the _Oregonian_,
ex-Governor A. C. Gibbs, District-Attorneys J. F. Caples and T. A.
McBride, and various ex-members of the legislature.

[513] The official vote of the State was 11,223 for the amendment,
and 28,176 against.

[514] _Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of
Washington:_

SECTION 1. All female citizens of the age of twenty-one years shall
be entitled to vote at all elections in the territory, subject only
to such regulations as male citizens.

SEC. 2. Any officer of election who shall refuse to take the vote
of a woman citizen (otherwise qualified to vote), shall be liable
to a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500.

SEC. 3. All laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. This act to be in force on and after its passage.

[515] The bill was introduced in the Washington House by
Representative Coply, and was supported in speeches by Messrs.
Coply, Besserer, Miles, Clark and Stitzel, while Messrs. Landrum
and Kincaid spoke against it. The vote was: _Ayes_--Besserer,
Brooks, Clark, Coply, Foster, Goodell, Hungate, Kuhn, Lloyd,
Martin, Miles, Shaw, Stitzel and Speaker Ferguson--14.
_Noes_--Barlow, Brining, Landrum, Ping, Kincaid, Shoudy and
Young--7. _Absent_--Blackwell, Turpin and Warner--3. The bill was
favorably reported in the Council, November 15, by Chairman Burk of
the Judiciary Committee. No one offered to speak on it. The vote
stood: _Ayes_--Burk, Edmiston, Hale, Harper, Kerr, Power and
Smith--7. _Noes_--Caton, Collins, Houghton, Whitehouse and
President Truax--5. Governor W. A. Newell approved the bill
November 22, 1883.

CHAPTER LV.

LOUISIANA--TEXAS--ARKANSAS--MISSISSIPPI.

St. Anna's Asylum, Managed by Women--Constitutional Convention,
1879--Women Petition--Clara Merrick Guthrie--Petition Referred to
Committee on Suffrage--A Hearing Granted--Mrs. Keating--Mrs.
Saxon--Mrs. Merrick--Col. John M. Sandige--Efforts of the Women
all in Vain--Action in 1885--Gov. McEnery--The _Daily
Picayune_--Women as Members of the School-Board--Physiology in
the Schools--Miss Eliza Rudolph--Mrs. E. J. Nicholson--Judge
Merrick's Digest of Laws--Texas--Arkansas--Mississippi--Sarah A.
Dorsey.

I.--LOUISIANA.

Mrs. Caroline E. Merrick has furnished the following interesting
facts from her native State, for which we feel ourselves deeply
indebted:

Like the children of one family t