Show washington NOTES from the tho washington correspondence den jan 20 of tile the sow new york herald the records which were fatal to caleb cushing cost the vouchers for the last nominee that are expected to secure the confirmation of mr waite walte cost the government 16 25 money expended to ascertain if he voted for mcclellan mcclelian in 1864 Z 17 Y merald herald the most disappointed man in washington is vice president witson wilson he came on here thinking that he could persuade the president to nominate judge rockwood rock Bock wood boaras chief justice but when he called at the white house and said 1 I suppose that the name of judge hoar has been brought to your notice mr president grant rumly replied yes a good deal fas hasteen has been said in his favor and a good deal against him this so disheartened heartened dis mr wilson that he dried up and left the next day he returned and sailed in more explicitly for judge hoar but grant merely suggested that it would be useless for him to nominate ano ther man unacceptable to the senate and again the vice president was made aware that while his suggestions when he used to be president of the senate were arl prized his suggestions as vice president were unheeded bevill he will re turn to boston and go to work on his health and his book again from the washington star january jannary 19 mrs weinman heinman agent of the pennsylvania woman suffrage society was before the commit committee see iee on territories this morning in opposition to the proposed abolition of woman suffrage in utah and also to the proposition to extend the common law over the territory mr carey district attorney of utah explained that the provision was not designed to abrogate any law or decision 0 of f t the lie lle te territorial arito rial authorities which had am improved proved the legal standing of women but simply to have the same guide to interpretation which prevailed in territories not conquered from frona mexico he exhibited a provision in the poland bill which clearly stated this and mrs heinman made no objection thereto after examining it 11 mr carey subsequently stated that the main object of the pending p andin Z bills was not to attack either woman suffrage or polygamy and that they would forego both if necessary to gain their point larger facilities for the execution of united states laws mr whitney a lawyer of utah was also aiso heard on this iatter laller point from the washington sar star january 20 the house judiciary committee room was crowded this morning with ladies and gentlemen favorable to woman suffrage suf sul miss susan B anthony sat at general butlers right hand and acted as lieutenant to that officer in managing the proceedings ce the basis was general butlers bill introduced yesterday to strike the word niale male from the qualifications for voters in this district miss anthony first presented mr francis miller counsel for mrs sarah J spencer in the cases lately decided adversely by the supreme court of this district mr miller referred to the report of the majority of the committee committe lD three years ago iu in which the ladies were referred to the courts he said the supreme court of the district had since decided that women had bad the right to vote but that this right could not be exercised except by the aid of express legislation for this legislation they now returned to congress he then proceeded to repeat the legal ar argument heretofore published in the star miss anthony next presented mrs mrk spencer the plaintiff in the suffrage test case who alluded to the fact that citizens of the district had last week signed i a petition for the legislation now asked and stated that she knew personally tha that t a large largo part of the most enlightened and cultured ladies in the district desired delred the elective franchise with reference to the argument that the bad women would all vote she said that statistics made ladeby by men showed that the bad women were mostly too youn young to vote and were at all events a very small fraction of the tho population anthony next presented mrs I 1 lockwood lackwood a practising practicing lawyer oathia di district strict who said even 1 if the legal argument was bad the e one for suffrage rage rago was good her father did not represent her when lie he voted the democratic ticket lier her brother did not represent her when he refused to night fight t in defense of his country her husband did hot bot represent lier her when he sided with the whig party she loved and respected them then and now but nono none of them represented her she would not occupy the committees time but rejoicing in the enfranchisement of the colored man roan she appealed to their sense of justice for the political liberty that they had given to him miss frances ellen elien burr 3 ford next addressed the committee her delicacy and native luo jno desty led her to speak in a very low tone and as our reporter was at the opposite end of the room he be understand a word the committee however how evidently dently dentis did miss I 1 phebe cozzens took tb the e floor and though the members were by this showing signs of weariness she was attentively heard she plead for the suffrage suni sufi as a matter of both Justi justl justice ceaud and aud ex expediency edlene miss anthony last arose with a written speech in her hand which chic h she seemed to have concluded to forego the pleasure of she said to the committee that women like herself old abolitionists felt humiliated at being beldi obliged to serve to the slaves they had helped to free for political libert ilbert liberty Y and that if the committee could cou la not see their way clear to report ia dk favor of woman suffrage they should at least report a bill relieving the dis dib franchised disfranchised women of the District from taxation she then thanked the comm committee itice and took her seat seal mr potter N yf asked mr spencer if the appeal pending before the supreme Sij sli preme court of the united states in her case would not afford relief without legislate leg legislation islat on mrs spencer answered that if the court decided favora favorably bf to her it would enfranchise every woman in in the united states gen butler then declared the tb e hearing closed after one abne member member had observed that he was willing it should go on all day |