t the friends of that movement exclaimed, "Can any
good come out of--Vermont"? Yesterday the first biennial session
of the legislature closed its session of fifty-seven days. A bill
has been pending in each House, giving female tax-payers a right
to vote at all school-district meetings. It was advocated by Mr.
Butterfield, one of the leading members of the House, in an able
and learned speech, and received 64 votes to 103 against. Is not
that doing well for such a staid old State as Vermont, and one
where the enemies of equal suffrage supposed, two years since,
that the measure was indefinitely postponed? But this is not all.
The measure was introduced in the Senate, composed of thirty
members, who are supposed to be the balance-wheel of the General
Assembly. It was warmly discussed by several Senators, and the
vote taken, when there were three members absent, resulting in,
yeas 13, nays 14. Had the Senate been full, the vote would have
been, yeas 14,[198] nays 16. A change of one of the "no" votes
would have carried the measure, as the lieutenant-governor, who
presides in the Senate, would have given the casting vote in its
favor.

The supporters of the measure included some of the ablest members
of the Senate, among them the chairmen of the very important
Committees on Finance, Claims, Education, Agriculture,
Manufactures, Railroads and Printing.

Following the defeat of the above-mentioned bill came up a
measure granting to women the same right to vote as men have in
all elections everywhere in the State. It received the support of
all who voted for the school measure, save two, Mr. Mason and Mr.
Rogers, who prefer to see the first tried as an experiment in the
school meetings. You thus perceive that twelve out of our thirty
grave and reverend Senators are real out-and-out equal suffrage
men. Verily, the world moves! Another year, 1874, we hope will
carry off the measure. Meanwhile, we say, three cheers for old
Vermont, and glory enough for one day!

ST. ANDREW.

_Burlington, Vt._

In 1880 the School Suffrage bill passed the Vermont House of
Representatives, with only four dissenting votes. When the bill
came to a third reading and only four men stood up for the
negative, there was so marked an expression