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M emorial Services and Tributes

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U. S. Washington, D. C.

October 9, 1917.

Reverend Olympia Brown, President, Federal Suffrage Association, 941 Lake Ave., Racine, Wis.

My dear Mrs. Brown:

Learning that you are now engaged in writing a sketch of the life of Mrs. Clara B. Colby and her work in relation to the Federal Suffrage bill, which is now before Congress, and has been pending for a number of years, I take it as a privilege to write you a few words in regard to Mrs. Colby and her work in behalf of the Federal Suffrage law in regard to the election of members of Congress as it has come under my observation.

I first became acquainted with Mrs. Colby some twelve years ago in her work in Oregon and then in California for suffrage in these two states. When I first came to Washington, some years ago, I found Mrs. Colby engaged and intensely interested in the proposed Federal Suffrage law. I had occasion to meet Mrs. Colby quite frequently in her great work. Her work brought her before the various committees of the House and Senate—in particular the House Committee on Judiciary and the Committee on Election of President, Vice President and Representatives in Congress, and the Judiciary and Woman's Suffrage Committees of the Senate.

Mrs. Colby's presentation of the Federal

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