g: "I am always glad to hear from you and I keep track of
your continued good work. Do not be discouraged. I take pleasure in
sending the enclosed check ($100) with my sincere regards and very best
wishes."

The crowds were so great that policemen had to be stationed at the door
to prevent late comers from trying to enter during the evening sessions.
The resolutions scored the bill before Congress proposing to
disfranchise all Utah women, both Gentile and Mormon, to punish the
crime of polygamy. The usual hearing was granted before the
congressional committees. The fight for woman suffrage in the
Forty-ninth Congress was conducted by Ezra B. Taylor, of Ohio, who
prepared the favorable minority report of the House Judiciary Committee.
The adverse majority report was signed by John Randolph Tucker, of
Virginia.

On March 25 "the general" slipped up to New York City, to assist her
forces at the State convention, and then hastened back to Washington to
direct the main line of attack. The diary says:

March 30.--Went to House of Representatives, saw Messrs. Tucker and
Taylor of judiciary committee; both promised to report soon. Then
went to Senate, saw Messrs. Blair, Stanford and Bowen; all agreed
to work to bring up our bill by May 1. In the evening took a cab
and went in a pouring rain to Senator Stanford's, where I spent an
hour. How keen and true are his perceptions in regard to public
questions!

March 31.--Pouring rain, dark and muggy. I went to the Senate; sat
with Mrs. Dolph and Mrs. Stanford; heard Senator Dolph's fine
speech on the admission of Washington Territory as a State and his
splendid word for woman suffrage. Mrs. Dolph took me home in her
carriage.

April 1.--Went to the Senate again to secure pledges for votes and
speeches for the Sixteenth Amendment Bill. Got Senator Dolph's
strongest paragraphs, and at 8 P. M. went to the top floor of the
Associated Press rooms and gave them to Mr. Boynton, who sent them
over the wires.

April 9.--The United States Senate today voted down Eustis' motion
to refuse to admit Washington Territory unless the woman suffrage
clause were eliminated from its constitution, 25 to 12. Senator
Ingalls was the only Republican who voted with the enemy.

A few days later Miss Anthony received the following from Mrs. Caroline
E. Merrick, of New Orleans: "... I feel defrauded