Trials, litigation, etc.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary]]>

The Committee on the Judiciary recommended that the petition be discharged and the bill postponed indefinitely due to a lack of Congressional authority on the matter.]]>
Clark, Champ, 1850-1921
Constitutional Amendments
National American Woman Suffrage Association
State action (Civil rights)--United States
Suffrage--United States--New York
Suffrage--United States--Pennsylvania
Thomas, Charles S. (Charles Spalding), 1849-1934
United States. Congress--Resolutions
Women's Political Union (New York, N.Y.)]]>
Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Women's Political Union (New York, N.Y.)]]>
Crabtree, W. R.
National American Woman Suffrage Association
New York State Woman Suffrage Party
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924]]>
Sewall-May Wright 1844-1920
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Women -- United States -- Congresses
Women's rights -- United States -- Congresses]]>

In her address, Sewall discusses the Council's efforts on behalf of women to reform divorce laws and work for equal pay for equal work by the Government. ]]>
Law --United States --Periodicals.
Secession
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
United States --Politics and government
United States --Politics and government --Periodicals.]]>
This issue includes a debate on an amendment to an internal tax bill, proposed by Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, "that any person who shall claim the service or labor for life of any other person under the laws of any State shall pay, on account of such person so claimed, the sum of ten dollars." The amendment was later rejected.]]>
States' rights (American politics)
United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary]]>

The first, submitted by the Committee on the Judiciary on December 15, 1916, contains no recommendation on the woman suffrage amendment.

The second, submitted on January 10, 1917, contains the "Views of the Minority" urging passage of the woman suffrage amendment.]]>
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Claims
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Participation, Female
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Women]]>

Submitted by Mr. Gerry W. Hazelton from the Committee on War-Claims made to accompany Bill H.R. 3786. The bill would appropriate $2,000 to Harriet Tubman for services to the Union Army as a scout, spy and nurse. The bill was defeated.]]>
Constitutional amendments
Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
Speeches, addresses, etc.
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage
Women --Legal status, laws, etc.]]>

Introduced by Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, the document details remarks by Elizabeth D. Bacon, Connecticut; Mary E. Marehand Milligan, Delaware; Ellen Powell Thompson, District of Columbia; Mrs. Frank L. Hubbard, Illinois; Sarah Clay Bennett, Kentucky; Caroline Miller, Maryland; Lavina A. Hatch, Massachusetts; May Stocking Knaggs, Michigan, Julia B. Nelson, Minnesota; Mrs. V. Conkling Whitney, Missouri; Mary D. Hussey, New Jersey; Marianna W. Chapman, New York; Helen Morris Lewis, North Carolina; Mrs. Southard, Oklahoma; Lucretia L. Blankenburg, Pennsylvania; Mary N. Chase, Vermont; Orra Langhorne, Virginia; Virginia D. Young, South Carolina; Lillie Devereux Blak, New York; ]]>
Memorials (Legal)
United States. Constitution. 14th Amendment
Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919
Women--Suffrage--New York]]>

Her speech to Congress in 1873 affirms this belief and requests that they pass a law that would simply protect women and leave them free to exercise their rights at the polls on election days. The proposed bill is included on page two.]]>
Blair, Emily Newell, 1877-1951
Bondfield, Margaret, 1873-1953
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
Jewson, Dorothy, 1884-1964
Marjory, Duchess
Nolan, Mae Ella Hunt, 1886-1973
Philipson, Mabel Russell, 1887-1951
Russell, Charles Edward, 1860-1941
Shuler, Marjorie
Stewart-Murray, Katharine
United States. Congress. House
Wintringham, Margaret, 1879-1955
Women--Political activity--Great Britain
Women--Political activity--United States
Women politicians
Woodhouse, Vera, Lady Terrington 1889-1973]]>

Includes photographs of Congresswoman Mae Hunt Nolan with her daughter, and female British members of Parliament.]]>