this as well as I. I ask
you to make a report and to bring it to a discussion and a vote on
the floor of the Senate.

You ask me if we want to press this question to a vote provided
there is not a majority to carry it. I say yes, because we want
the reflex influence of the discussion and of the opinions of
Senators to go back into the States to help us to educate the
people of the States.

Senator LAPHAM. It would require a two-thirds vote in both,
the House and the Senate to submit the amendment to the State
Legislatures for ratification.

Miss ANTHONY. I know that it requires a two-thirds vote of
both Houses. But still, I repeat, even if you can not get the
two-thirds vote, we ask you to report the bill and bring it to a
discussion and a vote at the earliest day possible. We feel that
this question should be brought before Congress at every session.
We ask this little attention from Congressmen whose salaries are
paid from the taxes; women do their share for the support of this
great Government, We think we are entitled to two or three days of
each session of Congress in both the Senate and House. Therefore I
ask of you to help us to a discussion in the Senate this session.
There is no reason why the Senate, composed of seventy-six of the
most intelligent and liberty-loving men of the nation, shall not
pass the resolution by a two-thirds vote, I really believe it will
do so if the friends on this committee and on the floor of the
Senate will champion the measure as earnestly as if it were to
benefit themselves instead of their mothers and sisters.

Gentlemen, I thank you for this hearing granted, and I hope the
telegraph wires will soon tell us that your report is presented,
and that a discussion is inaugurated on the floor of the Senate.

ARGUMENTS OF THE WOMAN-SUFFRAGE DELEGATES BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON
THE JUDICIARY OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE, JANUARY 23, 1880.

THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, UNITED STATES SENATE, _Friday,
January 23, 1880._

The committee assembled at half-past 10 o'clock a.m.

Present: Mr. Thurman, chairman; Mr. McDonald, Mr. Bayard, Mr.
Davis, of Illinois; Mr. Edmunds.

Also Mrs. Zerelda G. Wallace, of Indiana; Mrs. Elizabeth L. Saxon,
of Louisiana; Mrs. Mary A. Stewart, of Delaware; Mrs. Lucinda
B. Chandler, of Pennsylvania; Mrs