to brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, and thus
present to the nation a truly free State.

_Resolved_, That the right of suffrage being vested in the
women of Utah by their constitutional and lawful
enfranchisement, and by six years of use, we denounce the
proposition about to be again presented to congress for the
disfranchisement of the women in that territory, as an
outrage on the freedom of thousands of legal voters and a
gross innovation of vested rights; we demand the abolition
of the system of numbering the ballots, in order that the
women may be thoroughly free to vote as they choose, without
supervision or dictation, and that the chair appoint a
committee of three persons, with power to add to their
number, to memorialize congress, and otherwise to watch over
the rights of the women of Utah in this regard during the
next twelve months.

BELVA A. LOCKWOOD presented the annual report: The question of
woman suffrage is to be submitted to the people of Iowa during
the present centennial year, if this legislature ratifies the
action of the previous one. Colorado has not embodied the word
"male" in her constitution, and a vigorous effort is being made
to introduce woman suffrage there. In Minnesota women are allowed
to vote on school questions and to hold office by a recent
constitutional amendment. In Michigan, in 1874, the vote for
woman suffrage was 40,000, about 1,000 more votes than were
polled for the new constitution. The Connecticut legislature,
during the past year appointed a committee to consider and report
the expediency of making women eligible to the position of
electors for president and vice-president. The committee made a
unanimous report in its favor, and secured for its passage 82
votes, while 101 votes were cast against it. In Massachusetts,
Governor Rice, in his inaugural address, recommended to the
legislature to secure to women the right to vote for presidential
electors. An address to the legislature of New York by Mesdames
Gage, Blake and Lozier upon this question, was favorably received
and extensively quoted by the press. At an agricultural fair in
Illinois the Hon. James R. Doolittle advocated household
suffrage. I