Show I REPRESENTING WOMANS RIGHTS I Belva Locltwootl Position Among the Women of America Belva A Lockwoodwho is to lecture at I the Theatre Monday night has been inactive I in-active practice before the Supreme Court I j of the District of Columbia for the last I twelve years i She was the first woman admitted to the bar of the United States Supreme Court and drafted and lobbied through the bill admitting women thereto in the I face of great opposition She has several important cases pending in that court I She is the only woman ever admitted to the United States Court of Claims I Mrs Lockwood lobbied the bill through Congress giving to women employes of I Government equal pay for equal work She succeeded by great labor in secur I ing an appropriation of 50000 for the payment of bounties to sailors and marines I ma-rines She is an expert in claims against the I Government I Goverment She presented to Congress through I Benjamin F Butler a petition of 35000 names asking for a recognition of the rights of woman suffrage under the Constitution Con-stitution as it is i She moved the admission of the first colored man to the bar of flip Umjgi Stat c tt Vfllll l fc Kirs Lockwood is a noted temperance reformer I She is the only woman ever nominated for President of the United States |