Show THE NET YOHK limet thinks the past has been a bad winter for the advocates of woman suffrage and so also must the cufiraguts themselves conclude if they will look over tbe record The legislature of at least half a dozen Elates have acted on female suffrage measures in various orms and with uniform ill sIn s-In Connecticut it has oll late years been customary for tbe House to pass a woman suffrage bill and lor the Senate to defeat it Last winter the order was reversed and a bill giving women the right to vote on school matters and to be elected members of school boards was presented first to the Senate That body passed it hastily then reconsidered it in a sort of panic and finally concurred with the House in adjourning action to the next session The reasons aligned were that there was no provision for registration that the measure wi < not confined to tax paying women and that if it became a law it would have made possible a S combination between men and women wo-men of the lower orders meaning Roman Catholics strong enough to have absolutely controlled the public schools at least in cities In Indiana S a woman suffrage bill was killed first by the upper and then by the lowery lower-y house The Maine senate accepted nn adverse report on a proposed constitutional S con-stitutional amendment authorizing woman suffrage and the Maine houseS house-S killed a bill conferring on women the r right of suffrage in school matters In the Missouri legislature a bill was S introduced providing that if at the next general election a majority of all the women in tbe elate over 21 = years of age expressed by ballot a desire for the right of suffrage then a constitutional amendment granting the franchise should be submitted to the legal that is we suppose to the male voters It is not known what became of the bill but the presumption presump-tion is that it did not pass A bill favoring woman suffrage WAS reported to the New York assembly but it received re-ceived little consideration Perhaps the moft stringent woman suffrage bill ever suggested was that presented to the Wisconsin legislature It not only authorized but required female adults to vote at the the next general election upon the question whether I they wished to Resume the rights and dutiea of male citizens including the franchise Any woman not voting unless excused by a medical medi-cal certificate of disability was declared to be guilty of a misdemeanor demeanor Iud was to be fined not less ban 100 or imprisoned not more tban three months or both and any man wrongfully interfering with the casting of any womans vote was to be fined not less than 2000 or imprisoned not more than two year or both Such an extreme measure would have no chance whatever what-ever in most states but in the Wisconsin Senate it failed by a tie vote Notwithstanding the successive I failures and the steady discourage mont the suffragists are as earnest active and determined as ever Their ie i an aggressive war and the railure in six legislatures this year will not put them out of heart Next year we shall hear of numerous knocking at the doors of legislative balls and listen to a louder chorus of appeals from the throats ofthe ladies who persist in declaring that politically poli-tically men are eolfiih brutes |