should the women of Kansas have the vote when
it is denied to those of other States who need it as much or more?"
Mrs. Dodge answered: "We think the men in Kansas did not quite know
what they were doing when they gave it to women and a great many
thousands of women there wish they had not done so." "You are then
opposed to having a State grant suffrage to its own women?" he asked.
"Not at all," she replied. "Then why do you say the men did not know
what they were about?" "I do not know whether a majority or a minority
of the voters desired it," she said. "Well, it was a very large
majority and I have never heard a regret expressed in the State that
it was done," responded Mr. Taggart.

Mrs. Oliphant was held up because after saying that the women did not
want the suffrage she argued against a Federal Amendment because if
the women got it it would be very difficult to repeal it. Mr. Graham
(Penn.) rushed to her relief by saying: "The line of thought is that
20 States, holding a minority of the population of the United States
might pass this National Amendment over the protest of the larger
States with the greater population." His attention was called by one
of the committee to the fact that it would require 36 States. Mrs.
Wells kept reminding the committee that she was an inexperienced
speaker and knew nothing about politics but said: "I am a Catholic and
a Democrat. I claim no knowledge of northern women but I cannot
understand how southern women--I speak for them--can so far forget the
memory of Thomas Jefferson and State's rights as to insist on having a
minority of men in Congress pass this constitutional amendment against
our desire." She was reminded that it required two-thirds of each
House. She then told of opposing a suffrage resolution in the Texas
Legislature some years before but neglected to tell of opposing one
for prohibition also. Asked if women did not vote at school elections
in Texas she answered: "I do not know because I know nothing about
politics."

Miss Price was a shrewd speaker and guarded her position but before
she had finished the members of the committee themselves were making
speeches for or against woman suffrage. The speech of Mrs. George of
Massachusetts with its statistics filled fifteen closely printed pages
of the stenographic report. It was an argument for State's rights
which would have done credit to the most extreme southerner and she
protected her defenses against the volley of