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Rh suffrage for all citizens of the country. The new Association is in no wise antagonistic to other Suffrage Associations, but merely takes up the special subject of equal federal suffrage as distinguished from equal, state, municipal, or school suffrage, whose claims are being urged by other organizations. Then, as Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, who is especially interested in and largely responsible for the new society, says, the country is large and the women cannot get too many Associations before the public to urge their demands for full and equal suffrage"

On motion of Clara B. Colby the following memorial was adopted and Mrs. Colby was directed to submit the same to Clarence D. Clark, congressman from Wyoming, who had introduced a bill in congress providing for the federal enfranchisement of women:

To the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled:

WHEREAS, the right to vote for members of the House of Representatives is, by the constitution of the United States, vested in the people of the United States, without condition, limitation, or restriction, and women are people; therefore, we, members of the Federal Suffrage Association of the United States, respectfully request your honorable bodies to pass a bill enabling women citizens of the United States to vote for mem-