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Show Protest Against the Utah Bill. Washington-, : Feb. 20. At 3'esterday's session of the Woman's Suffrage Convention, Conven-tion, resolutions were adopted calling upon up-on Congress to submit to the States at J once the question of the right ; of women to vote and protesting against the passage pas-sage in its present shape of the bill now pending in Congress to suppress polygamy, polyga-my, as discriminating unjustly against. the Gentile and non-polygamous- Mormon women for crimes never committed by them. At the evening session, the vote of the audience was taken relative to the passage by Congress of the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution enfran-' chising women. It received a general and hearty vote in the affirmative. The following " resolution ' was unanimously adopted.:. ... , :., j . . ; .1, Iiesolced, That we extend our grateful thanks to Senators Blair, Palmer, Bowen and Chace for their favorable resolution to protect women in the exercise of the franchise; to Representative Reed for the presentation of the resolution to the House ; to the Judiciary Committee . for granting us a hearing; also to Senator Hoar and ' those who supported his amendment to the Utah bill. . ' The Judiciary Committtee of the House will give the officers and delegates of the Association a hearing this morning. t |
