Show WHETHER WOMEN of lorei it birth if xa nil tive or naturalized become anzai voters in hie the lieu or of the EDITOR hubald the lega legal the tribune ill in its sundays issue issue under the title shall the th women vote goes on oil with a r string of words as meaningless as well could be and without a single legal idea it asserts that tle tile suffrage everywhere is is recognized in thelah as a ft privilege inherent iu in the election and not derived from bis his relations rela tiona to some other citizen this is false in ill political economy and false as at principle of law the right ot of suffrage ia not anat ural but a conventional right the body politic i lie determines whether suffrage shall h all be allowed at all and if 11 BO so to whom thus russia refuses it in in toto i england allows it in a modified form so of germany and all other countries with a parliament of two houses in great britain we have t the lie house of commons depre representing enting the clec electors and the nobility constituting the aristocratic body by virtue of their titles whether conferred or inherited section 2172 revised statutes of the united states provides that the children of persons who have been duly naturalized under any law of the united states being under the age of twenty one years at the time of the naturalization of their parents shall if dwelling in the united states be consid rid citizens thereof now by the law of congress the minor child of a naturalized citizen by relation to the parent becomes a citizen the balderdash of the tribune to the contrary notwithstanding then section these same revised statutes provides that any woman who is now or may hereafter be married to a citizen of of the U united n cited state t and who might herself lier self he be lawfully natura naturalized lizi ed shall be deemed a citizen here again the woman becomes a citizen by relation to her husband if f he be a citizen whether native born or naturalized but again the tribune and some of its correspondents ask the question if the woman becomes a citizen because her husband is not vice versa the husband become a citizen by marrying a wife who is a citizen the answer to this is is very simple and easily comprehended verb it t is because the law so provides as to the wife and docs does not as to the husband hence whilst the foreign horn born wife becomes a citizen by marrying a citizen the foreign born boin husband does not but tho the tribune and sonic some of its correspondents pon dents arc are trying to convince the public and the commissioners and registrars in particular that the laws of congress forbid female sti suffrage and hence the territorial rit orial urial statute allowine allowing it should ba amended this is has as bold a piece apiece jf or elTron effrontery tery as I have ever seen a journal attempt and is a direct reflection on tho the intelligence and integrity te rity of the courts and commissioners sio sio ners the organic act for this territory sec provides that after the first firt election under it the qualification of voters and ef of holding office at all sube subsequent quent elections shall be such as shall mall be prescribed by the legislative assembly provided provided that tb the r right ight to vote ans and hold office shall be confined to citizens of the united states the question as to the legality of female suffrage and the territorial statute came up in the territorial Terri toral supreme court in tha the case of lyman vs vi martin efale utah reports and was sustained by the court and it has never been re revised v ased but was subsequently affirmed in principle this should silence all novices in in the law especially as congress has never seen proper to disturb this statute conferring suffrage en on women but it is virtually affirmed in in the edmunds bill by its following language found in section eight that no opol any person cohabiting with more than one woman and no woman cohabiting with any of the persons described as aforesaid shall be en ew t titled Tb to vote at any election held in any such territory the debates show that an amendment disapproving of female suffrage was voted down in the senate so this statute has not only passed the ordeal of the legislative branch of the nation but has basded passed the ordeal of the judicial department of the territory to its highest tribunal that women who are proper subjects of naturalization become citizens by marlyin marrying citizens has been judicially jud decided decile by the U S supreme C court ourt in kelly vs to owen wallaces reports page F furthermore urther more this identical question was decided but a few weeks since before sir mr justice harlan of the U S supreme court whilst sitting on a circuit in the district t act of illinois iu in the united states in kellar 13 vol federal feder al reporter page 82 kellar was born in prussia sin of a native of that country but his mother being a widow removed with him to the united states when tic be was four years old and whilst still a minor she site married a naturalized prussian kellar never took naturalization papers but exercised the elective franchise and b being eing in diomed dieted for illegal voting hia bis defense wa that his lis mother became a citizen by marrying a naturalized citi an zen and hat that thereby he naturalized and mr justice Tuf harlan harian hold ills his defense god and valid i ader the net of Con congress gres and decision of the U S supreme court new now mr tribune writer do you think that bellars Ke Kel llara lars right to vote tote was a t personal onal right inhering in him and that he lie was wag not helped hy by nil in outside relative in a ve very great de degree deree ree in fact did not I bellars Kel ell lars t rs right riat to vote come from t tho be fact bia stepfather step father being a citizen and ingerma intermarrying inter marrying g with his foreign born mother whilst it he lie was yet a minor I would meekly sug suggest est that thia this whole es subject ab t is is far fir better understood by lice the ic commissioners and the courts than by the lawyer of the tribune or ita its correspondent republican OGDEN sept ath 1882 |