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Show j UTAH WOMAN PLEADS '' '' IT FOR WOMEN SUFFRAGISTS jj)' i j WASHINGTON. D. C. March 3. The advocates of female suffrage -wove ,!., jK today given their annual opportunity if to present pleas to Congress, the pre- !j ,J flf: scntiition to the Senate being mado Ji,,jl: ffl before tho committee on woman suf- ' r 1 ilk frage, and to the House before the jn- jj i. alj diciary committee. Before the Sen- t w ml ate committee meeting.' Hew Anna jl Shaw, as president of the National ft i J l'emale Suffrage association, introduced W ) II the speakers, the first of whom was 3' !' li Mrs. Belva Lockwood. who expressed llll confidence in the support of hor cause j J. u by the committee. Mrs. Faunio Fit- f V, i uald mado au eloquent plea for 'a i 1 j voice in tho government which control's 11 V' j j every interest we hold dear." Mrs. PH ' Harriet Taylor Upton of Ohio was in J3- j! S charge of the House committee, and !fi ,r' a tho speakers included Miss Emma Gil- 'fx lotto of Washington. Mrs. Chapman 'is!' a Catt of New York. Senator Owen .of (ll I; Oklahoma, aud Miss Ixoso Sullivan of 'i ' fi-'j Utah. |