s of the proposed amendment,
as stated by Mrs. Funk, which are given in condensed form in Chapter
XIV, will be found in full in the published Handbook or Minutes of the
national suffrage convention of this year. Specimens of the objections
made as published in the _Woman's Journal_ are given herewith:

Mrs. Catharine Waugh McCulloch (Ills.), a lawyer: Senator
Shafroth's new suffrage amendment may do good by keeping
law-makers discussing woman suffrage but as a practical method of
securing it has serious defects. It is open to all the States'
rights objections raised against our Susan B. Anthony
amendment,[154] for it goes further and proposes a universal
method of amending 48 State constitutions. State law-makers and
Judges and even State voters from the North as well as the South
will resent such dictation as an unwarrantable interference. The
Initiative and Referendum scheme will have its own enemies, who
will fear that this way may be an entering wedge for more
Initiative and Referendum amendments to be pushed into State
constitutions.

The amendment is, however, too indefinitely framed to be
workable. No officer is named to whom the petitions should go; no
officer is obligated to submit the question; no method of
authenticating the petitions is prescribed and no time for voting
is fixed. The United States has no facilities of its own for
conducting any such elections or punishing State or county
officers who may not volunteer to do the work. The Congressional
Committee would better keep this amendment in committee rather
than let the country know the great objection there is to it on
the part of our constituency....

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Mrs. M. Tascan Bennett (Conn.): The three principal objections to
the new amendment appear to be as follows: It divides suffragists
all over the country. The Anthony Amendment has had the support
since 1869 of the annual conventions, where the members of the
National Association have their one opportunity to direct its
work. The Shafroth Amendment furnishes an excellent excuse to
Congress for taking no action on the Anthony Amendment. It might
well appear as a happy way to dispose of the whole question of
woman suffrage by foisting responsibility for it back on the
States where it already i