our history, received their appeals from twenty-three States for
a sixteenth amendment protecting the rights of women.

In both houses, by unanimous consent, the petitions were
presented and read in open session. The speaker of the House
gallantly prepared the way yesterday, and the most prominent
senators to-day improved the occasion by impressing upon the
Senate the importance of the question. Mr. Sargent reminded the
senators that there were forty thousand more votes for woman
suffrage in Michigan than for the new State constitution, and Mr.
Dawes said, upon presenting the petition from Massachusetts, that
the question was attracting the attention of both political
parties in that State, and he commended it to the early and
earnest consideration of the Senate. Mr. Cockrell of Missouri,
merrily declared that his petitioners were the most beautiful and
accomplished daughters of the State, which of course he felt
compelled to do when Miss Couzins' bright eyes were watching the
proceedings from the gallery. Mr. Cameron of Pennsylvania,
suggested that it would have been better to put them all together
and not consume the time of the Senate with so many
presentations.

The officers of the National Woman Suffrage Association held a
caucus after the adjournment of the Senate, and decided to thank
Mr. Cameron for his suggestion, and while they had no anxiety
lest senators should consume too much time attending to the
interests of women whom they claim to represent, and might
reasonably anticipate that ten millions of disfranchised citizens
would trouble them considerably with petitions while this
injustice continued, yet they would promptly adopt the senator's
counsel and roll up such a mammoth petition as the Senate had not
yet seen from the thousands of women who had no opportunity to
sign these. Accordingly they immediately prepared the
announcement for the friends of woman suffrage to send on their
names to the chairman of the congressional committee. They
naturally feel greatly encouraged by the evident interest of both
parties in the proposed sixteenth amendment, and will work with
renewed strength to secure the cooeperation of the women of the
country.--[_Washington Star._

The time has evidently arrived when demands for a recognition