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Senate Report: Mr. Edmunds submitted the following report to accompany bill S. 391 to enable Susan B. Anthony to pay a fine imposed upon her by the district court for the northern district of New York . . . Views of the minority . . . .1874
Series: 43rd Congress, 1st Session, Report No. 472
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.
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.
Memorial of Dr. Mary E. Walker, introduced in the Senate by Dr. Walker on January 16, 1873, and calling card. 1873
Mary Walker was a physician and social reformer from Oswego, New York. She believed in a suffrage strategy known as the "New Departure." Proponents of this strategy argued that voting was a natural right of
citizenship, guaranteed in by the…
citizenship, guaranteed in by the…
Senate Report: Memorial of C.E. McKay remonstrating against the right of suffrage being granted to women. 1870
Series: Mis. doc. (United States. Congress. House), 41st Congress, 2nd session, no. 48.
Charlotte McKay, a Civil War nurse, addresses several reasons against granting the right to vote to women, chief among them that it would put the safety of the…
Charlotte McKay, a Civil War nurse, addresses several reasons against granting the right to vote to women, chief among them that it would put the safety of the…
Senate Report: Petition of H.C. Ingersoll praying that the right of suffrage be granted to women in the District of Columbia. 1870
Series: Mis. doc. (United States. Congress. Senate), 41st Congress, 2nd session, no. 47.