VOTES FOR WOMEN
MOVEMENT IN AMERICA. (By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright ) WASHINGTON, 4th March. The House Judiciary Committee heard* woman's suffrage and anti-suffragist deputations. The former demanded a constitutional amendment of the United States laws, providing for feminine suffrage. Doctor Mary Walker, wearing trousers and a silk hat, a noted feminist, was specially permitted to wear a malo garb. She made a vigorous plea for women's lights, threatenifg that tho women voters throughout the Suffrage States would destroy the Democratic Party unle&s theii 1 demands were granted. The Senate later debated the question. Senator CJapp held that nil the evil mfluencea thioughout the United State* sought fo prevent women from getting votes, .is they would instantly right many of the glaring .«oc«aI wrongs.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 54, 5 March 1914, Page 7
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123VOTES FOR WOMEN Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 54, 5 March 1914, Page 7
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