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Show WOMEN IN CONGRESS. Susan B. Anthony Interviewed on Her Rumored Ru-mored Senatorial Aspirations. Washington, April 3. Some one circulated cir-culated the rumor that Miss Susan B. Anthony proposed removing to Wyoming Wyo-ming and making a race for the United States senatorship when the territory shall be admitted as a state. Miss Anthony An-thony laughed good-naturedly wheu spoken to about the report, and said that inasmuch as she had no such intention inten-tion it must have been started as a joke. "But there is," continued Miss Anthony An-thony more seriously, "nothing to pro-vent pro-vent women from being elected to a seat in either branch of congress if they receive the required number of voles. Some years ago Mrs. Stanton announced herself as a candidate for congress in one of tho New York city districts. It was represented, if I mistake not, by one of tho Brookses at . the time, aud she received twenty odd votes. So distinguished distin-guished an authority as Horace Greeley in his comments subsequently on the matter said there was no law to prevent - . r.. . 4-...f., iha OOnt IT Mrs.. Stanton from taking the seat if enough votes had been cast for her. ihe constitution prescribes who shall vote. It says nothing concerning the person who shall be tho beneficiary ot these votes " "Is there any probability that the women of Wyoming will aspire to con-gresssional con-gresssional honors when that territory becomes a state?" was asked. "I should think not," Miss Anthony replied. "There are not to exceed 000 women in the territory. In the new states you will always find women in tho minority. Iu tho older commonwealths, common-wealths, like Massachusetts for example, exam-ple, they largely outnumber the men. "Will any other states change their constitutions, thus putting women on an equality with men politically? "South bakota will hold a cons t it i -tional convention next autumn which will result, we believe, in striking out the word 'male' from their constitution, thus civing us our political riglils. Ji South8 PaKota docs this North Dakota will surely follow. Then Washington will surely fall into line, and so il mately, will Kansas and several other western states." .. . "What do you hope, to accomplish in Massachusetts, where the women numerically num-erically outnumber the men? Miss Anthony shook her head, despair des-pair uglv "I W but little hope of itKhW-" he said. "The foreign element is. very strong, and it is opposed, op-posed, as afule, to female suffrage |