e further consideration of
the subject, that the resolution raising it be rescinded, and
that the proposed amendment be rejected.

J. Z. GEORGE,
HOWELL E. JACKSON,
JAMES G. FAIR.

In a letter from Miss Caroline Biggs to the president of the
National Association the following congratulations came from the
friends of suffrage in England:

CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR }
WOMAN SUFFRAGE, 64 Berners Street, LONDON, W. }

At a meeting of the Executive Committee, on May 18, 1882, the
following resolution was proposed by Mrs. Lucas, seconded by Miss
Jane Cobden, and passed unanimously:

_Resolved_, That the Executive Committee of the National
Society for Woman Suffrage have heard with hearty
satisfaction that a select committee of the United States
Senate in Washington has passed by a majority of votes the
recommendation to adopt a constitutional amendment in favor
of women's suffrage. They feel that the cause of woman is
one in all countries, and they offer their most cordial
congratulations to the women of America on the important
step which has just been gained, and their warmest
good-wishes for a speedy success in obtaining a measure
which will guarantee justice and equal rights to half the
population of a sister country.

Nebraska now became the center of interest, as a constitutional
amendment to secure the right of suffrage to woman was submitted to
be voted upon in the November election. As the submission of such a
proposition makes an important crisis in the history of a State, as
well as in the suffrage movement, the notes of preparation were as
varied as multitudinous throughout the nation, rousing all to
renewed earnestness in the work. Both the American and National
associations decided to hold their annual conventions in Omaha, the
chief city of the State, and to support as many speakers[90] as
possible through the campaign, that meetings might be held and
tracts distributed in every county of the State, an Herculean
undertaking, as Nebraska comprises 230,000 inhabitants scattered
over an area of 76,000 square miles, divided into sixty-six
counties; and yet this is wha