l Husted, that
gentleman replied that Miss Anthony was perfectly correct in her
statement. She summed up by asking the committee to report in favor
of legislation exempting women from taxation unless represented by
the ballot, remarking that she would not ask for the right to vote,
as that was guaranteed her by the Constitution of the United
States. Miss Anthony then introduced Mrs. Joslyn Gage, who said if
any member of the committee had objections to offer or questions to
ask she would like the privilege of answering; but as none of the
committee availed themselves, she proceeded for fifteen minutes in
about the same strain as her predecessors. Calls being made for Mr.
Spencer and eliciting no reply from that gentleman, Mrs. Blake said
they should consider him a convert.

[228] The speakers were Dr. Clemence Lozier, Helen M. Slocum,
Henrietta Westbrook, Mrs. Devereux Blake. Mrs. J. E. Frobisher
recited Paul Revere's ride, and Helen M. Cooke read the
resolutions.

[229] Helen M. Slocum, Dr. Clemence Lozier, Mrs. Devereux Blake.

[230] Miss King, the head of a New York tea-dealing firm composed
of women, who control a capital of $1,000,000, has recently gone to
China to make purchases. Her previous business experience, as
narrated by a correspondent of the Chicago _Tribune_, explains her
fitness for her mission, while it incidentally throws some light on
the secrets of the tea-company business:

"Previous to the outbreak of our civil war Miss King was
extensively engaged in utilizing the leaves of the great blackberry
and raspberry crops running to waste in the rich lowlands of
Georgia and Alabama, and kept in that fertile region a large levy
of Northern women--smart, like herself--to superintend the
gathering of the leaves and their preparation for shipment to
headquarters in New York. These leaves were prepared for the market
at their manipulating halls in one of the narrow streets on the
Hudson side of New York city. Over this stage of the tea
preparations Miss King had special supervision, and, by a generous
use of the genuine imported teas, worked up our American
productions into all the accredited varieties of the black and
green teas of commerce. Here the female supervision apparently
ended. In their extensive tea ware-rooms in Walker street the
business was conducted by the shrewdest representatives of
Gothamite trade, with all the appliances of the great Chinese
tea-importing houses. Here were huge piles