ies,

THEREFORE, we respectfully ask your excellency, in your next
annual message, to make mention of the disfranchised millions of
wives, mothers and daughters of this republic, and to recommend
to congress that women equally with men be protected in the
exercise of their civil and political rights.

On behalf of the National Woman Suffrage Association.

ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, _President_.

MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE, _Corresponding Secretary_.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY, _Chairman Executive Committee_.

The delegates from the territory of Utah were also received by the
president. They called his attention to the effect of the
enforcement of the law of 1862 upon 50,000 Mormon women, to render
them outcasts and their children nameless, asking the chief
executive of the nation to give some time to the consideration of
the bill pending under different headings in both houses. The
president asked them to set forth the facts in writing, that he
might carefully weigh so important a matter. A memorial was also
presented to congress by these ladies, closing thus:

We further pray that in any future legislation concerning the
marriage relation in any territory under your jurisdiction you
will consider the rights and the consciences of the women to be
affected by such legislation, and that you will consider the
permanent care and welfare of children as the sure foundation of
the State.

And your petitioners will ever pray.

EMMELINE B. WELLS.
ZINA YOUNG WILLIAMS.

Mr. Cannon of Utah moved that the memorial be referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary with leave to report at any time. It was
so referred. The Judiciary Committee of the Senate brought in a
bill legitimatizing the offspring of plural marriages to a certain
date; also authorizing the president to grant amnesty for past
offenses against the law of 1862.

The _Congressional Record_ of January 24, under the head of
petitions and memorials, said:

The vice-president, Mr. Wheeler of New York, presented the
petition of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Susan
B. Anthony, officers of the National Association, praying for the
passage of Senate joint resolution No. 12, providing for an
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, protecting
the rights