Show SHALL WW WOMEN LEGISLATE shall we have fair members in house and senate WHAT SOME SENATORS THINK interviews with mending leading members ot of both houses on the prospects of women representatives at the national capital curious carlous complications possible in case of such a change prom from precedent copyright IWI by Bichell cr johnson bacheller A S H hington IN G 0 jan 5 A rt I 1 w will ii women mc I 1 I 1 J ever be elected 1 11 to congress I 1 i 1 the I 1 17 4 ailt 1 question I 1 Is s ll 11 wy I 1 1 avilla I 1 pertinent just N now in view U I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 of the equal 11 I 1 I 1 I 1 AI I 1 4 1 I suffrage But Trace agitation I 1 I 1 0 i going coins J on all over it f 4 t I 1 the country L when two hundred and fifty thousands persons in one of ill tha greatest states in the union sign E petition praying that wamen women shall have hava the e of 0 voting as was the case at albany during the sitting of the constitutional convention recently the matter aSs assumes v eight and importance and when it Is remembered too that it Is barely a century that the experiment of male suffrage has been in successful operation it does doea not seem so strange that in the second century of gover bover rt i ment by the people we find woman asking the right to cast a ballot along with men As the state of wyoming Is the first in tho the union where the equal suffrage frase suf C e rz 1 r i bev 1 A 1 ai L az 6 11 SI af 1 I ia ry 0 X ji I 1 1 X 4 1 I 1 I 1 i 1 kaj 1 I 1 ay I 1 IV A ros possible silie matrimonial complication movement hns has met brict with complete sue success no more interesting testimony as to its promises and can be given than that of the wyoming senator said senator carey it Is a great mistake to 10 imagine viat thit all the scree chers you hear proclaiming the virtues of women suffrage tire representative of the great mass of women voters the th fact Is no one would want to send to congress the women who would like to go there as representatives ta tives in lilles run for such offices as superintendent ot of pub ila instruction and other places 3 that are suitable tor for them anything like female representation will never nevel occur in my time lime so far as congress Is concerned woman eur traga frage works admirably in our state but no one thus far his has cven cv ln e a a desire to come to our national legislature senator teller of colorado who represents the second state stale in the union where women now have the right ot of suffrage sur frage and who Is regarded as one of the most mosi conscientious honest and farsighted men jn in the senate said out in ray my state stale the women vole vale but rarely hold office while in kansas they are allowed to vote under certain restrictions still and yet can hold bold all kinds of offices I 1 do not imagine that thai women will want to come to the senate and yet this Is within the possibilities of the next fifty years all through the hie west W ost the women are wideawake wide awake and the admission or of utah ulan into the union will be followed by a lively crusade there in behalf of equal suffrage and with success I 1 think it if once onca women make up their minds to come to congress I 1 have b ave no doubt as to the result went woman ail suffrage wot works its admirably in colorado and the indications are re that it will spread to lu the surrounding ur states within a short time senator of kansas the leader of the populists lists in the senate who has made sonic some study tit of the subject in his own state and who doubtless expects to have a woman colleague one of these davs had this to say 1 I think that eventually in every civilized country woman will take talc e part in politics poll ties tile tie movement niu has begun in t 11 the tha united states and kansas will jn i n all probability be first to send sena women to the state legislature this may happen at any time now not things are arc rapidly grid and X kansas angas you 1 know now la Is always first in ili overy every rood good work our people are strongly in favor ot of political poi lical equality we believe that women tire lire as much entitled to political ts as thay thas ar are e to civil i lights agh ts 1 i do not see why women should not ome come c to lo congress Con arcs do you we have some women in ili kansas who are more capable of legislating for the country than some men there that I 1 know tho situation may mar change in a very short time so that we may soon have a 70 man representative in ill congress from kansas As to sep separate apartments I 1 do not see why we should have hava different com millet rooms women dine together I 1 with men in public and private with them ani and in 1 fact ire are in every place where men ought to be they will he admitted to banquets one ona of these days men and women dine together at hotels meet inert together lo in lobbies anil and reception rooms and I 1 do not see sec why they should not ailt anso clata together tact ier in committee rooms we ve have mixed schools and la in the churches the two sexes freely the presence ot of women in ili congress would improve it for in this way you would ret more of 0 the home influence in ili public life in ili this way our political 11 lutc fc would bo purified and the general il effect of womans comans entrance into tile the national legislature would he be good g 11 senator james IL 11 kyle of south da rota who alio represents rop a strong clest clement ment of the populist party in tile the we west and whose name la is whispered around as a presidential possibility on oil their ticket in ili isao 1856 had tills this to 1 say 1 I am alit not in ili tavor favor of women suffrage and herian do not think it would be the armer thiep to have women in either the ill state or the national LegIn ture p but I 1 do not li imagine that women will ever want to come cime to contreas Cons reas besides jr it would bea pretty difficult thin for the two wo sexes toworu to work harmoniously in matters of 0 legislation no the appearance ot of women in congress will not come about in my day 11 senator harris ot of tennessee press president den pro ile tern ot of the senate laughed heartily when the question of w women ori en comIl comilla lf to congress was wag broached broach d to him they will ili not come in my day or in your day either ettli r what about kansas well I 1 dont I 1 believe that even this wonderfully fertile state in experiments will send it woman to these halls halla things will come to a 16 pretty pass when we set get women in the senate and the old senators face wore a curious cross between a simile and alneer a sneer senator pugh of alabama said there are no women in the south who want to come to the seriate senate nor can you on find ten men in any southern state who would favor such an extraordinary proposition senator call of florida showed true southern chivalry kind and said that once women come to congress he would be in favor of them in every way th they ey should have their cloak rooms committee rooms boudoir boudoirs bou doirs and hat bal dressing apartments whis while he be did not expect to see ladles tor for legislators in the near future yet he intimated that it 11 would not be the worst thing in the world that could happen to the united states senate they could tighten lighten and brighten brish ten many a weary hour and would be a decided boon to some or of the dry as dust committees what Is more they would prove an admirable antia J 11 1 1114 VJ L a i C 1 II I 1 f P I 1 t J 11 I 1 i j I 1 S 1 I 1 ill pk J I 1 1 via 41 am l fag I 1 pa 1 R 1 i 0 4 I 1 ill va r V f I 1 va I 1 C imi N s 0 I 1 it 4 I 1 y I 1 1 a N J 1 14 1 4 V 0 I 1 arr Q I 1 I 1 i it IF IT 4 0 I 1 it 1 I 1 1 I 1 I it I 1 0 I 1 A 1 i za T T k I 1 I 1 I 1 i I 1 congressional dressing no edoia om of the future dote to the country constituent and ubiquitous oance seeker genitor hoar of massachusetts believes that worse things could happen than the admission of 0 women to con gressional gress lonal halls 1 I do to not think that women care caret to 0 occupy such high places said he but will be content with municipal m uni cipal and state offices there would be nothing bothin 9 remarkable r cinar kable about it even it I 1 I 1 they should want to come to congress we have such examples as queen elizabeth ard queen victoria women w who it 0 have become great as rulers and others like joan of are arc who vrho have become great as generals it does no not t follow that because women get the alie right of they will want to come to the national legislature when the negroes were emancipated and ana the republicans public ans weri in ili control of the south only only eight colored men were sent to congress Con Kiess you know it was lincoln who wrote 1 I go tor for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in ili its burdens by no means excluding women while I 1 do not imagine that women will care to co come in c to congress yet it Is among the bilt ties ot of the future george washington murray the colored congressman from south caro care I 1 I 1 I 1 1 t lot 5 i ii q 11 7 1 I 1 lit I 1 4 1 k 4 6 I 1 J I 1 6 I 1 1 I M ni 11 1 i A i 1 11 I 1 1 1 i I 1 I 1 J i 1 1 I 1 I 1 11 P yak I 1 what peffer expects to see sea una hila had this to say the tb la colored people dont think much of female suffrage this may be duo due to the fact ahat they have no ambitions or 0 pira eions in ili that line lint as regards lie whites waltes I 1 expect to see some women from the ithe western states sitting silting in the house of representatives before long 1 re representative Engl irli of california said 1 I should not noi be surprised to see pee women in congress one of 0 these the s e days the republicans of california have a plank in their platform favo favoring zing women momen suffrage congressman nell N ell of arkansas said women are arc not wanted here we dont believe in women suffrage in our state slate congressman pendleton Pond leton of west virginia said 1 I export within the next ten or I 1 twenty weil ty years to find women in congress Congre sd as representatives or senators the tories in england are very conservative and yet they f favor avor woman suffrage buck kilgore of oc texas volunteered a new ar argument gumont against women representatives said lie it would be a great mistake to have women in congress gi for tile the reason that aba t it is not lot the place r for or them it if they should ret get here bere it would cause no end ot 0 C trouble for far the men who happened to sit bit next thorn them the husbands of the one or the wives of the other would get jealous and we should have a big rumpus I 1 dont think ithai the coin inz in of women to ito Con fresa grer would improve things in the least |