Alice Hill Chittenden and Miss
Minnie Bronson (N. Y.), Mrs. Robert Garrett (Md.), Miss Emily P.
Bissell (Del.), Mrs. A. J. George (Mass.), Miss Annie Bock (Calif.),
Mrs. O. D. Oliphant (N. J.), Miss Ella Dorsey (D. C.), Mrs. R. C.
Talbot and Miss Lucy Price (O.), Miss Eliza Armstrong, Miss Emmeline
Pitt and Miss Julia Harding (Penn.), Miss Alice Edith Abell, president
"Wage-earners' Anti-Suffrage League" (N. Y.); Everett P. Wheeler and
Charles L. Underhill, representing the Men's Anti-Suffrage Leagues of
New York and of Massachusetts. Letters were read from Miss Elizabeth
McCracken (Mass.) and Arthur Pyle (Minn.). Mrs. Scott introduced as
speakers Dr. and Mrs. Rossiter Johnson and John C. Ten Eyck of New
York. Representative J. Thomas Heflin (Ala.) spoke over an hour on his
own initiative.

As the anti-suffragists had entirely disregarded the agreement to
confine the hearing to the purpose of obtaining a special committee
and had covered the whole field of woman suffrage itself, the
Committee on Rules willingly granted time for a rebuttal. Miss Alice
Stone Blackwell (Mass.), editor of the _Woman's Journal_, was selected
as the principal speaker because of her extensive knowledge of the
subject and another large audience assembled for the fifth time, both
suffragists and opponents. Mrs. Catharine Waugh McCulloch (Ills.)
presided and Miss Blackwell said in beginning:

Gentlemen of the committee, it is difficult in a short time to
review the arguments that have been made during nine or ten
hours, therefore I shall take up only the most important points.
The argument has been made over and over that you ought not
appoint this committee because there is not a sufficient public
demand and because the number of women who oppose suffrage is
greater than the number who favor it. It is an actual fact that
we represent a very much larger number. The opponents say that
only 8 per cent. of the women of this country favor suffrage.
They have no authority for this, nobody knows how many there are,
but it is a fact that less than one per cent. of the women of the
United States have expressed any objection to equal suffrage. The
anti-suffragists claim to be organized in seventeen States. The
suffragists are organized in forty-seven; the only State without
an organization is New Mexico. The anti-suffrage movement
maintains only three periodicals--two monthl