ote.

Brief remarks were also made by Mrs. Lawrence of Massachusetts,
Mary A. Thompson, M. D., of Oregon, Mary Powers Filley of New
Hampshire, Mrs. Blake of New York, Mrs. Hooker of Connecticut, and
Sara Andrews Spencer of Washington.

At the close of these two day's hearings before the Committee on
Privileges and Elections,[30] Senator Hoar of Massachusetts,
offered, and the committee adopted the following complimentary
resolution:

_Resolved_, That the arguments upon the very important questions
discussed before the committee have been presented with
propriety, dignity and ability, and that the committee will
consider the same on Tuesday next, at 10 A.M.

The Washington _Evening Star_ of January 11, 1876, said:

The woman suffrage question will be a great political issue some
day. A movement in the direction of alleged rights by a body of
American citizens cannot be forever checked, even though its
progress may for many years be very gradual. Now that the
advocates of suffrage for woman have become convinced that the
thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments are not
sufficiently explicit to make woman's right to vote unquestioned,
and that a sixteenth amendment is necessary to effect the
practical exercise of the right, the millennial period that they
look for is to all intents and purposes indefinitely postponed,
for constitutional amendments are not passed in a day. But there
are so many sound arguments to be advanced in favor of woman
suffrage that it cannot fail in time to be weighed as a matter of
policy, after it shall have been overwhelmingly conceded as a
matter of right. And it is noticeable that the arguments of the
opponents are coming more and more to be based on expediency, and
hardly attempt to answer the claim that as American citizens
women are entitled to the right. If the whole body of American
women desired the practical exercise of this right, it is hard to
see what valid opposition to their claims could be made. All this
however does not amend the constitution. Woman suffrage must
become a matter of policy for a political party before it can be
realized. Congress does not pass revolutionary measures on
abstract considerations of right. This question is of a nature to
become a living political issue after it has been sufficiently
ridicule