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Show ASKS CONGRESS FOR I LAW ON SUFFRAGE I Legislature Memorializes President to 1 Favorably Consider Constitutional Amendment. A memorial to the president of the United fcftates and congress, urging that favorable consideration be given to the proposed federal constitutional amendment amend-ment on woman suffrage before conclusion conclu-sion of the present session of congress, was unanimously adopted bv the house of representatives of the Tjtah legislature legisla-ture yesterday morning under suspension suspen-sion of the rules. I The memorial was introduced at the ! morning session by Representative Elizabeth J. Hayward of Salt Lake and was immediately adopted. The senate sen-ate also adopted it. The memorial, in full, follows: To the senate and house of representatives rep-resentatives of the United States, in congress assembled: Your memorialists, the governor and legislature of the state of Utah, respectfully represent that, 1 "Whereas, the federal amendment I to grant the right of suffrage to j women equally with men has been j before the congress of the United I States for the past forty years; j and, Whereas, the women of the ron-suffrage ron-suffrage states feel that the time is come when the congress should give favorable consideration to this measure of justice to one-half the citizens of these United States; Now, therefore, the governor and the legislature of the state of Utah respectfully petition that the said suffrage amendment receive favorable consideration before the sixty-fourth session of congress adjourns. |