week ago the House Judiciary
Committee voted down a motion to print our "hearing" speeches.
Yesterday I went up and called out a Democrat who I knew had voted
"no," and hence could move to reconsider, and he promised to go
back and thus move, and did so, and Mr. Browne, of Indiana, asked
leave of the House to print them. I wish you would write to Mr.
Browne that he is splendid and our main help now in the committee.
Cockrell has been trying to prevent printing the Senate "hearing,"
but Blair, Lapham, Palmer and Anthony are bound it shall be
printed. Still, all would fall flat and dead if some one were not
here to keep them in mind of their duty to us.

[Illustration: Autograph: "Yours &c, Thomas M. Browne"]

Miss Anthony remained in Washington till April 14, managing her forces
like an experienced general until the last gun had been fired. When she
returned home ready to begin work on the History, she found to her
amazement that the officer who had been charged with preparing the
report of the Sixteenth National Suffrage Convention, a woman of great
literary ability, had given it up in despair, declaring that it would be
utterly impossible to make anything creditable out of such a mass of
unsatisfactory material, most of which would have to be entirely
re-written. Miss Anthony did not stop to sit down and weep, but wrote
her at once to send to Rochester every document she had in her
possession. Then, taking all of them to Mrs. Stanton, who had gone to
her old paternal home at Johnstown, they arranged, edited, re-wrote and
put into shape the conglomerate of letters, speeches, etc., and in less
than two weeks prepared and sent to the printer the most complete report
ever made of a National convention.[22]

The middle of May, after two years' interruption, Miss Anthony and Mrs.
Stanton set themselves diligently to finish the third volume of the
History of Woman Suffrage, all the boxes and trunks of material having
been shipped from Tenafly. Although submerged in the avalanche of old
documents, Miss Anthony's mind was full of current events. She writes in
her journal June 2: "I wait with bated breath the news from Oregon,
where today the men are voting on the question of woman's
enfranchisement. My heart almost stands stills. I hope against hope, but
still I hope." When the news of the defeat comes, she says: "Dear Mrs.
Duniway, with all that debt left on her shoulders, wh