National American Woman Suffrage Association
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage]]>

Favorable report by the U.S. Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage on the proposed woman suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Included in the report was a memorial signed by the officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.]]>
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage]]>
Catron, Thomas Benton, 1840-1921
Constitutional amendments
Women--Suffrage--New Mexico]]>

Contents include:
Failure of women to vote when given the ballot
The women's vote for president
Taxation and woman suffrage
Prohibition and woman suffrage
Schools and playgrounds
Vice not suppressed where women vote
War and woman suffrage
Wage-earning women and woman suffrage
Woman suffrage undemocratic
Woman suffrage not an inherent right
Women as office seekers
Rural communities and woman suffrage
Women as jurors in woman suffrage states
Feminism and socialism
Woman suffrage and divorce
Woman suffrage unjust
Population, not territory, counts
High cost of woman suffrage
Defeats of woman suffrage
Opinions of eminent men against woman suffrage.]]>
Ross, Clinton, 1862-1920
United States. Congress (64th : 1915-1917). Senate]]>

The essay addresses the impact of woman suffrage on taxation, prohibition, schools, working women, war, rural communities, failure of women to vote when given the ballot, and the idea that woman suffrage is undemocratic.]]>
National American Woman Suffrage Association
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.]]>

Dennett argues the men do not have to spend time justifying the many reasons why they would be qualified voters and suffragists should not valuable spend time "giving promises and proof that women will use the vote to good advantage when they get it."]]>
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; ]]>
National Woman Suffrage Association (U.S.)
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Woman Suffrage.
Women--Suffrage--Massachusetts]]>

This is an accounting of the hearing given by the Senate Select Committee on Woman Suffrage in response to a petition by the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts and other suffrage organizations to consider a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote.]]>
Legislators--Massachusetts--1900-1910
Massachusetts.--General Court.--House of Representatives--People--1900-1910
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association]]>

The envelope also contains handwritten notes: "Saw Dr. Heartwell and spoke with him about the within [?] an [?] presence of Doctor Parsons Sat. Feb. 18, 1888. Senator voted right, Defended in Senate."]]>

Petition to the 1st Session of the 49th Congress by Mrs. Angie F. Newman to present the signatures of 2,000 Mormon women who assembled in Salt Lake City, Utah on March 6, 1886 to protest the contemplated measure in Congress to deprive women voters in Utah the elective franchise in the form of a "Declaration of Grievances."]]>
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Privileges and Elections
United States. Constitution. 16th Amendment]]>

The majority report was written by Senators Wadleigh, McMillan, Ingalls, Saulsbury, Merrimon, and Hill on June 14, 1878.

The minority report was written by Senators Hoar, Mitchell, and Cameron of Wisconsin on February 1, 1879.]]>
1879-02-01]]>