Show THE SILVER FIGHT I It Will be Pushed and 9 it Will be a H = rd One WOMAN SUFFRAGE CONVENTION ITo I-To be Held In Washineton the Comlns Week Difference Between Delegates Now and Formerly HERALD BUREAU Cor 15th and G Streets N W WASHINGTON Jan 15 The resolutions for an international bimetallic bi-metallic conference introduced in the Senate and House a few days since have created considerable talk in the east Teller Tel-ler introduced asimilar resolution last July but it died in committee Sweet who introduced in-troduced the resolution says Senator Shoup sent for me asking mo to come to his rooms at once I found him waiting We drove to the residence of Teller I am not at liberty to impart all the information i received but the indications certainly point to the possibility of an international agree mentEngland still feels the effect of the fail ure of BarlngBrothersandSalisbury admits that there is not enough gold to do the business busi-ness of the world The German chancellor asks his people time to consider the question ques-tion Finally it was agreed I should introduce Intro-duce the resotuuon in the House The fight for free coinage will be pushed regardless of these resolutions The fight will be a hard one as the leaders of both parties in the cast are determined to dodge the issue Indeed I think ana an-a re ment has been reached by the eastern leaders on both sides to call joint caucuses of both parties when they expect the rank ana file of both parties will surrender to j the overshadowing greatness of their old leaders The majority for silver in the House IE pronounced but the passage of a free coinage bill by the Democrats will cost New York New Jersey and Connecticut Connecti-cut at the next national campaign although the south would remain in line regardless i I of these questions Hence those tears I The struggle is on Its outcome no man I can guess I WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS The woman suffragists of America will hold their annual convention in this city on tho 17th 18th 19th and 20th instants The suffrage movement I i move-ment is now entering upon its twentyfifth year Thirty states and territories sent i i delegates to the last annual convention and it is expected that at the one in ques ton no fewer than forty states and six territories will be represented During bo continuance of the convention the congressional I rressional committee of the suffragists will be given a hearing by both the judiciary I and the suffrage committees of the House Tne head of the suffrage committee is Miss I Susan B Anthony who has ALIANTLT TOUGHT TiE CAUSE OF WOMEN I before eleven preceding Congresses It is I rather interesting these appeals to the liberality 01 Congress The early appeals were flippantly disregarded disre-garded and the ladies were even denied the courtesy of an adverse repori A little later Congress became ashamed of itself and the committee to whom the suffrage I sUlraKe bill was referred did consent to notice it to S the extent of reporting against t It is a little odd but it is true that Mr Tom Reed of Maine THE CZAR OF TiE LAST HOUSE trshould have been the first Representative I who wrote a minority report in favor oi the bill Mr Reeds action bil acton was followec in the next Congress by Mr E B Taylor of Ohio who made a similar minority report Gradually year by year the scope of the womens influence broadened and in the last Concress Mr Gaswell of Wisconsin reported the bill back to the House favorably One of the signs of the increase in the suffrage movement is that so many young women are taking hold of the work About half of those who are upon the programme for the coming convention are middle aged and younger Some of them are still In their twenties Many of those who were here a year ago were bright HANDSOME GIRLS WHOSE GOWNS FITTED ThEN perfectly and which were in every way tri umphs of the modistes art That they were intelligent and thoughtful goes without saying They were none the less womanly by reasons of these qualities and the impression which they made upon the lawmakers at the capitol wan wa-n every degree creditable to them The truth is the short haired women and the long haired men who were the most conspicuous features of suffrage conventions conven-tions in the past have had their say and their places are fled by some of the most civilized and brainiest representatives of the two sexes You can drop in at A FASHIONABLE TEA IN TiE WEST END and go from there to a session of the woman suffragists and the chances are that you will find at the latter place more women of engaging personality than you will at the former Of the pioneers in the cause Elizabeth Cady Staton Susan B Anthony Lucy Stone and Isabelle Beecher Isabele Hooker are as well known as the cause itself Elizabeth Cady Stanton the president of the association associa-tion will be here In spite of the fact that when she went abroad several year eart ago few of her admirers uud she numbers them by the thousands over expected to see her again For Susan B Anthony the years seem to have rolled backwards She wont acknow edge her agoshe Is a true woman you eebut there is a legend to the effect that two years ago in this city sho CELEBRATED HER SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY Notwithstanding her busy life she looks younger today than many women a score of years her junior Aunt Susan > as all the suffragists affectionately call her has always contended that a suffragist need not necessarily be a poor or indifferent house keeper This proposition she proves in her own caso She and her niece Mary Anthony An-thony went t housekeeping last summer in Rochester and they are the happiest pair of women you can find anywnere They give teas and dinners and luncheons ad libitum and no better housewives can cityMiss be found within all the limits of the Flour Miss Anthonys principal associate on the congressional committee is Mrs Harriet Har-riet Taylor Upton Mrs Upton is the daughter of Representative Taylor of Ohio She is well known in social life and distinguished in THE LITERARY COTERIE OF TiE CAPITAL Other well known women who are identified iden-tified with the suffrage movement are Mrs Warren and Mrs Carey the wives of the Wyoming Senators Mrs Senator Dolph of Oregon Mrs Senator Pettigrew of South Dakota Mrs Senator Allen of Washington Mrs Senator Hawley of Connecticut and Mrs Senator Stanford of California Mrs Greenleaf whose husband hus-band Is the Representative from Rochester Roches-ter N Y is president of the New York State Suffrage society and will participato actively in the coming convention Before the Woman Suffrage convention shall have finishedits labors Washington will have another assemblage within her gates but of an entirely different character char-acter I refer to the NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE which meets here on the 21st There is coin t be a livebr scjamblo ior the hosgs I of entertaining the Democratic National I convention New York Chicago San Francisco Omaha Kansas City Cincinnati Cincin-nati Milwaukee Detroit and 8t Paul will all send delegations here to present their claims for the convention The Frisco delegation will bo the first to arrive and will come with plenty of California champagne cham-pagne and a 550000 guarantee fund They will offer as inducements for the holding of the convention on the Pacific slope FREE TRANSPORTATION AND FREE HOTELS to all delegates and newspaper correspondents corres-pondents After the convention they will take these gentlemen on a trip up and down the Pacific coast They will also claim that the holding of the convention on the slope will materially aid the Democratic Demo-cratic party in that section in redeeming it from Republican misrule fS Kansas City will be a hustling cand date She will send a hundred of her leading citizens backed by A GUARANTEE FUND OF 100000 ample hotel accommodations a new and commodious convention hall and as good railroad facilities as any city in the country Milwaukee Omaha and Cincinnati will do practically the same thing New York and Chicago are not expected to make any fight for the convention I is believed now that the convention will go west There is talk of a TRANSMISSISSIPPI COMBINATION between Frisco Omaha and Kansas City I j this is done it is likely to result in a similar combination between Milwaukee St Paul and Detroit This would give Cincinnati the balance of power The convention con-vention boomers here now say that Kansas I City and Milwaukee are in the lead but its I it-s too soon to justify any such assumption The Chic go people have their hands full with the Worlds lair They fully realize I this and will make no attempt to secure the convention They are bending all their energies to securing support for their five million dollar appropriation from Congress They seem to think they will get it but i Chairman Holman of the appropriations committeethe treasury watchdog can L prevent it the Worlds fair will have to I get along without government 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