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Show Wants Women to Vote. WASHINGTON, Dec 15. The Senate Committee on Territories gave a hearing -: Wednesday on the Statehood bill to Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby, editor of the Wo-: Wo-: fsjan's Tribune, late of Washington, D. C, but now of Portland, Or. Mrs. Colby asked that the word "male" be stricken out of section 2, so that women may be ellgi-ble ellgi-ble to vote for delegates to the consti- : tutlonal conventions of the proposed States. She argued that women have so shared In the development of these Ter- ' ritorles- that they are entitled to a voice In selecting those who are to frame the ; State Legislatures. |