d House of Representatives of the United
States in Congress assembled:_

Whereas the Supreme Court of the United States has affirmed
the decision of the Supreme Court of the District of
Columbia in the cases of Spencer _vs._ The Board of
Registration, and Webster _vs._ The Judges of Election, and
has decided that "by the operation of the first section of
the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United
States, women have been advanced to full citizenship and
clothed with the capacity to become voters; and further,
that this first section of the fourteenth amendment does not
execute itself, but requires the supervision of legislative
power in the exercise of legislative discretion to give it
effect"; and whereas the congress of the United States is
the legislative body having exclusive jurisdiction over the
District of Columbia, and in enfranchising the colored men
and refusing to enfranchise women, white or colored, made an
unjust discrimination against sex, and did not give the
intelligence and moral power of the citizens of said
District a fair opportunity for expression at the polls; and
whereas woman suffrage is not an experiment, but has had a
fair trial in Wyoming, where women hold office, where they
vote, where they have the most orderly society of any of the
territories, where the experiment is approved by the
executive officers of the United States, by their courts, by
their press and by the people generally, and where it has
"rescued that territory from a state of comparative
lawlessness" and rendered it "one of the most orderly in the
Union"; and whereas upon the woman suffrage amendment to
Senate bill number 44 of the second session of the
forty-third congress, votes were recorded in favor of woman
suffrage by the two senators from Indiana, the two from
Florida, the two from Michigan, the two from Rhode Island,
one from Kansas, one from Louisiana, one from Massachusetts,
one from Minnesota, one from Nebraska, one from Nevada, one
from Oregon, one from South Carolina, one from Texas, and
one from Wisconsin; and whereas a fair trial of equal