Ever your friend, MARY CLEMMER.

May God bless and keep you, I ever pray.[101]

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THURSDAY, March 1, 1883.

Mr. WHITE, by unanimous consent, from the Special Committee on
Woman Suffrage, reported back the joint resolution (H. Res., 255)
proposing an amendment to the constitution, which was referred to
the House calendar, and, with the accompanying report, ordered to
be printed.

Mr. SPRINGER: As a member of that committee I have not seen the
report, and do not know whether it meets with my
concurrence.[102]

Mr. WHITE: I ask by unanimous consent that the minority may have
leave to submit their views, to be printed with the majority
report.

The SPEAKER: The Chair hears no objection.

MR. WHITE, from the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage, submitted
the following:

_The Select Committee on Woman Suffrage, to whom was
referred House Resolution No. 255, proposing an amendment to
the Constitution of the United States to secure the right of
suffrage to citizens of the United States without regard to
sex, having considered the same, respectfully report:_

In attempting to comprehend the vast results that could and
would be attained by the adoption of the proposed article to
the constitution, a few considerations are presented that
are claimed by the friends of woman suffrage to be worthy of
the most serious attention, among which are the following:

I. There are vast interests in property vested in women,
which property is affected by taxation and legislation,
without the owners having voice or representation in regard
to it. The adoption of the proposed amendment would remove a
manifest injustice.

II. Consider the unjust discriminations made against women
in industrial and educational pursuits, and against those
who are compelled to earn a livelihood by work of hand or
brain. By conferring upon such the right of suffrage, their
condition, it is claimed, would be greatly improved by the
enlargement of their influence.

III. The questions of social and family relations are of
equal importance to and affect as many women as men. Giving
t