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reforms the women there feel the need of the ballot. By
presenting long petitions to the legislature they have succeeded
in having better temperance laws enacted, but the men have failed
to elect the officials who will enforce those laws. Consequently
they have become as dead letters upon the statute books.

To refer again to taxes. I have a list showing that in my city
three women pay more taxes than all the city officials together.
They are good temperance women. Our city council is composed
almost entirely of saloon-keepers, brewers and men who patronize
them. There are some good men, but they are in the minority, and
the voices of these women are but little regarded. All these
officials are paid, and we have to help support them. As Sumner
said, "Equality of rights is the first of rights." If we can only
be equal with man under the law, it is all that we ask. We do not
propose to relinquish our domestic life, but we do ask that we
may be represented.

Remarks were also made by Mrs. Chandler, Mrs. Archibald and Mrs.
Spencer. The time having expired, the committee voted to give
another hour to Miss Anthony to state the reasons why we ask
congress to submit a proposition to the several legislatures for a
sixteenth amendment, instead of asking the States to submit the
question to the popular vote of their electors.[58] When Miss
Anthony had finished, the chairman, Senator Thurman of Ohio, said:

I have to say, ladies, that you will admit that we have listened
to you with great attention, and I can certainly say, with great
interest; your appeals will be duly and earnestly considered by
the committee.

Mrs. WALLACE: I wish to make just one remark in reference to what
Senator Thurman said as to the popular vote being against woman
suffrage. The popular vote is against it, but not the popular
voice. Owing to the temperance agitation in the last six years,
the growth of the suffrage sentiment among the wives and mothers
of this nation has largely increased.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 24, 1880.

The CHAIRMAN _pro tem._ (Mr. HARRIS of Virginia): The order of
business for the present session of the committee is the delivery
of arguments by delegates of the Woman Suffrage Convention now
holding its sessions in Washington. I am informed tha