do equal work with men at half the
salaries, in the departments at Washington and elsewhere. An
additional resolution was adopted declaring that paying Dr. Susan
A. Edson for her services as attendant physician to President
Garfield, $1,000 less than was paid for an equivalent service
rendered by Dr. Boynton, a more recent graduate of the same
college from which she received her diploma, is an unjust
discrimination on account of sex.

Mrs. SEWALL said men in the departments were given extra
leave of absence each year to go home to vote, and suggested
that women be given (until the time comes for them to vote)
extra leave to meditate upon the ballot.

Miss ANTHONY said she had addressed a letter to each
secretary asking that such women as desired be given
permission to attend the meetings of this convention without
loss of time to them. She had received but one answer, which
was from Secretary Folger, who wrote: "_The condition of the
public business prevents us from acceding to your request_."

Mrs. HARRIETTE R. SHATTUCK of Boston said: Tired as some of
the audience must be of hearing the same old argument in
favor of the ballot for women repeated from year to year,
they could not possibly be more tired than the friends of
the cause were of hearing the same old objections repeated
from year to year. While the forty-year-old objections are
raised the forty-year-old rejoinders must be given. We must
continue to agitate until we force people to listen. It is
like the ringing of a bell. At first no one notices it; in a
little while, a few will listen; finally, the perpetual
ding-dong, ding-dong, will force itself to be heard by every
one. The oldest of all the old arguments is that of right
and justice, and the tune which my little bell shall ring is
merely this: "_It is right!_" This cry of woman for liberty
and equality increases every day, and it is a cry that must
some day be heard and responded to.

Mrs. Virginia L. Minor of St. Louis was then introduced as the
woman who stands to this cause in the same relation that Dred
Scott had stood to the Republican party. Miss Couzins said that
in introducing Mrs. M