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HEARINGS 
 
 BEFORE THE 
 
 COMMITTEE ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE 
 
 UNITED STATES SENATE 
 
 SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS 
 
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 A JOINT TION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE 
 
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 A JOINT HI-: \ i ItOI'OSIXC AX AMENDMENT TO THE 
 
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 THE 1U(.'J'< o| Sl*FFRA(JE TO WOMEN 
 
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 WASHINGTON 
 
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 ter], and in the name of the national association, Mr. Chairman 
 and gentlemen of this committee, we thank you for your patience, 
 and consider the hearing of the National Suffrage Association closed. 
 
 The CHAIRMAN. A meeting has been called for to-morrow morning 
 at the request of the Congressional Union, at 10 o'clock a. m., in this 
 hall, and inasmuch as the chairman has some other engagements that 
 may prove embarrassing, and may make it impossible for him to be 
 here all the time, I shall ask, with the approval of the committee, 
 that Senator Sutherland preside on that occasion. This meeting 
 is now adjourned. 
 
 Dr. MARY WALKER. One moment, Mr. Chairman ; will you appoint 
 a time for the opposition to be heard, as is customary ? 
 
 The CHAIRMAN. We will when the proper time arrives, but not 
 at an individual request. 
 
 (Thereupon, at 12 o'clock noon, the committee adjourned until to- 
 morrow, December 16, 1915, at 10 o'clock a. m.) 
 
SECOND DAY. 
 
 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1915. 
 
 UNITED STATES SENATE, 
 COMMITTEE ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE, 
 
 Washington, D. C. 
 
 The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m., pursuant to adjournment, 
 being called to order by Senator Sutherland (presiding). 
 
 Present: Senators Thomas (chairman), Ransdell, Hollis, Suther- 
 land, Jones, Clapp, and Catron. 
 
 Senator SUTHERLAND (presiding). This meeting has been called 
 this morning to hear the representatives of the Congressional Union, 
 and Miss Anne Martin, representing that union, will have control 
 of the time. Miss Martin, we will be glad to hear you now. 
 
 STATEMENT OF MISS ANNE MARTIN, OF NEVADA. 
 
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 Miss MARTIN. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, one 
 of our chief purposes in asking this hearing before the Woman 
 Suffrage Committee of the Senate is to bring before you not only 
 the ethical importance, but the political urgency of the settlement of 
 this question of national suffrage for women. Under present con- 
 ditions the thought and the strength of large numbers of women 
 throughout the country are concentrated and absorbed by this cam- 
 paign to win fundamental justice for the women of the country, 
 which prevents their giving their help in the settlement of matters 
 vitally affecting the interests of the men* and women and children of 
 the Nation. 
 
 This question is assuming larger and larger proportions in the 
 minds of the women all over the country, and must continue to do so 
 until it is settled, and settled justly by the submission of the Susan 
 B. Anthony amendment to the legislatures of the several States for 
 ratification. 
 
 We therefore again ask you to consider the political urgency of 
 this question of woman suffrage in the Sixty-fourth Congress. 
 
 Our plan this morning is to have a number of speakers make short 
 speeches of five minutes each until we get to the last half hour of 
 our time, when the last half hour will be divided between the envoys 
 of the Women Voters' Convention. We must finish our hearing this 
 morning by half past 11, owing to the fact that the only time we 
 could get a hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
 House is this morning at half past 11. Therefore we are compelled 
 to finish our hearing by that time in order that we may attend the 
 session of the Committee on the Judiciary of the House. 
 
 Our first speaker will be Mrs. William Spencer Murray, of Con- 
 necticut, the secretary of the Women's Political Union of Con- 
 necticut. 
 
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