Show THE rhe WOMEN WENT AGAINST IT AT THE TUB recent annual meeting of or the woman buff suffrage rage association at plymouth church brooklyn mrs lucy stone chairman of the executive committee read the fourth annual report in which it was wai stated that tho committee had corresponded oded with members of ofton congre gren grew and worked actively to defeat the effort to merge wyoming in colorado and ard to abolish woman suffrage hi in utah the report says the tho th judiciary committee prepared and carried through the united states senate a bill to suppress polygamy poly gamy camy in utah also prohibited women from voting and established the english common law concerning wives in tha thel form IB which it existed at the time of the declaration of independence tho tha common law as construed at that date faye fare to every husband the custody of or his hia cifes person the right to gire gite her moderate cornec tion the right to keep kerp her mr by constraint const mint the night right to all her ber money it took from the wife everything rights of person rights of property blotted out her legal existence and left her ber with the one hight right to be maintained A right which Is ac corded to idiots and town haupers paupers pau pers for this thie enormity senator cn en of new jersey is especially despon bine sible under the covert expression the common law as it existed at the time odthe of the adoption of the declaration of independence he be truck track a dastard lp mow blow at every hight right of the married women of that territory the bill passed the senate hut but was defeated in the house by the active opposition lon ion of mr sargent of california now senator from that state and by other representatives so the women of utah etall tote 1 |