e. While all action of any kind
and everywhere is good because it is educational, the only real,
legitimate work of the National Woman Suffrage Association, is
upon congress. Never have our prospects been brighter than
to-day. A select committee on woman suffrage having been
appointed in both houses during the last session of congress, and
a resolution introduced in the Senate, proposing an amendment to
the Constitution of the United States, to secure the right of
suffrage to all citizens irrespective of sex, having been
referred to this select committee and receiving a favorable
majority report thereon, we have every reason to expect the
submission of such an amendment at the next session of congress.

The work then, most necessary, is with each representative and
senator; and the legislatures of the several States should be
induced to pass resolutions requesting the senators and
representatives from each State to give voice and vote in favor
of the submission of such an amendment. This work is vitally
important for the coming winter, and none the less so, even
should Nebraska vote aye November 7, upon the woman suffrage
amendment to its own constitution. In view of the probability of
the submission of a sixteenth amendment at the coming session of
congress, I offer the following resolution, which I consider one
of the most important of the series I have been asked to prepare
for adoption by the convention:

_Resolved_, That it is the duty of every woman to work with
the legislature of her own State, to secure from it the
passage of a joint resolution requesting its senators and
representatives in congress to use voice and vote in favor
of the submission of an amendment to the national
constitution which shall prohibit States from disfranchising
citizens on the ground of sex.

I hope the above resolution will be unanimously adopted, and that
each woman will strive to carry its provisions into effect as a
religious duty. With my best wishes for a grand and successful
convention, and the hope that Nebraska will set itself right
before the world by the adoption of the woman suffrage amendment
this fall, I am,

Very truly yours, MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE.[96]

_The Republican_ in des