usurpation of power over one-half the citizens of this republic.

WHEREAS, In President Hayes' last message, he makes a truly
paternal review of the interests of this republic, both great and
small, from the army, the navy, and our foreign relations, to the
ten little Indians in Hampton, Va., our timber on the western
mountains, and the switches of the Washington railroads; from the
Paris Exposition, the postal service, the abundant harvests, and
the possible bull-dozing of some colored men in various southern
districts, to cruelty to live animals, and the crowded condition
of the mummies, dead ducks and fishes in the Smithsonian
Institute--yet forgets to mention twenty million women robbed of
their social, civil and political rights; therefore,

_Resolved_, That a committee of three be appointed from this
convention to wait upon the president and remind him of the
existence of one-half of the American people whom he has
accidentally overlooked, and of whom it would be wise for him to
make some mention in his future messages.

WHEREAS, All of the vital principles involved in the thirteenth,
fourteenth and fifteenth constitutional amendments have been
denied in their application to women by courts, legislatures and
political parties; therefore,

_Resolved_, That it is logical that these amendments should fail
to protect even the male African for whom said courts,
legislatures and parties declare they were expressly designed and
enacted.

_Resolved_, That the judges of the Supreme Court of the United
States in denying Belva A. Lockwood admission to its bar, while
she was entitled under the law and under its rules to that right,
violated their oath of office.

_Resolved_, That the Senate Judiciary Committee, Mr. Edmonds
chairman, in its report on the bill to allow women to practice
law in the courts of the United States in which it declares that
"further legislation is not necessary," evaded the plain question
at issue before it in a manner unworthy of judges learned in the
honorable profession of the law, and thereby sanctioned an
injustice to the women of the whole country.

WHEREAS, The general government has refused to exercise federal
power to protect women in their right to vote in the various
States and territories;