, Bowen, Cheney, Conger, Cullom, Dolph, Farwell, Hoar,
Manderson, Mitchell of Oregon, Mitchell of Pennsylvania, Palmer, Platt,
Sherman, Teller, Wilson of Iowa. _Nays_: Beck, Berry, Blackburn, Brown,
Call, Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt, Eustis, Evarts, George, Gray, Hampton,
Harris, Hawley, Ingalls, Jones of Nevada, McMillan, McPherson, Mahone,
Morgan, Morrill, Payne, Pugh, Saulsbury, Sawyer, Sewell, Spooner, Vance,
Vest, Walthall, Whitthorne, Williams, Wilson of Maryland. _Absent_:
Aldrich, Allison, Butler, Frye, Gibson, Gorman, Miller, Plumb, Ransom,
Camden, Cameron, Chace, Dawes, Edmunds, Fair, Hale, Harrison, Jones of
Arkansas, Jones of Florida, Kenna, Maxey, Riddleberger, Sabin, Stanford,
Van Wyck, Voorhees.

[34] The skeptical can not but wonder whether the Republican party ever
will have the grace and wisdom to justify the confidence which Miss
Anthony has steadfastly placed in it, as regards this question, from the
day of its birth.

[35] Conventions were held at Evansville, Vincennes, Bloomington,
Kokomo, Logansport, Wabash, Lafayette, South Bend, Fort Wayne, Muncie,
Anderson, Madison and New Albany. The largest of the series was at Terre
Haute, where the opera house, donated by the citizens, was crowded both
evenings with an audience representing the culture and intelligence of
the city, and the convention was welcomed by the mayor, Jacob C.
Kolsom.

CHAPTER XXXV.

UNION OF ASSOCIATIONS--INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL.

1888.

A preceding chapter described the forming in 1869 of the American Woman
Suffrage Association at Cleveland, O., the overtures for union by the
National Association the next year, and their rejection. No further
efforts were made and each body continued to work in its own way. At the
annual meeting of the American Association in Philadelphia, October 31,
1887, the following resolution from the business committee was
unanimously adopted:

WHEREAS, The woman suffragists of the United States were all united
until 1868 in the American Equal Rights Association; and _whereas_,
The causes of the subsequent separation into the National and
American Woman Suffrage Societies have since been largely removed
by the adoption of common principles and methods; therefore

_Resolved_, That Mrs. Lucy Stone be appointed a committee of one
from the American Woman Suffrage Association to confer with Miss
Susan B. Anthony of the National and, if on conference it seems