we come to the point where qualifications for this right of
citizenship are the same in all States." In Mrs. Colby's comprehensive
address she said:

It may be news to some of you that we have had 12 reports on the
woman suffrage amendment from committees of Congress. In 1869 the
first hearing was given on woman suffrage and from that time to
the present every Congress has had one....

Never were there such splendid women in the records of time as
those who have stood for the rights of their sex and the rights
of humanity.... All those women passed on without being allowed
to enter the promised land and for every one of them one hundred
sprang up for whom the doors of opportunity and education had
been opened by the efforts of those pioneer women. Now these also
are coming to gray hairs and weariness, but for every one of
these hundreds there are a thousand of the 20th century insisting
that this question shall be settled now and not be passed on to
the children of tomorrow to hamper and limit them, to exhaust and
consume their energy and ability.

I was present at the last hearing where Mrs. Stanton spoke before
a Judiciary Committee, and she said: "I have stood before this
committee for thirty years, may I be allowed to sit now?" ...
Miss Anthony before a committee in 1884 said: "This method of
settling the matter by the Legislatures is just as much in the
line of State's rights as is that of the popular vote. The one
question before you is: Will you insist that a majority of the
individual men of every State must be converted before its women
shall have the power to vote, or will you allow the matter to be
settled by the representative men in the Legislatures of the
several States? We are not appealing from the States to the
nation. We are appealing to the States, but to the picked men of
those States instead of to the masses." She used to say when John
Morrissey, champion of the prize ring, was in the New York
Legislature, that it was bad enough to go and ask him to give her
her birthright but it was infinitely worse to go down into the
slums and ask his constituents....

Mrs. Colby closed with an extract from one of Mrs. Stanton's eloquent
speeches before the Judiciary Committee and submitted a valuable
summary of Congressional hearings and reports on