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150 them that if you are favorable, your influence would be very important to us. Can you not speak at that meeting or at some time during Jan. 10th or 11th? Of course we would pay your usual lecture fee which is understood to be $100. It would gratify me greatly if you would come.

P. S. Governor Long's message will distinctly favor municipal suffrage for women, I am told. 

 &emsp; Your kind note of the 26th inst. has just reached me. Frankly, I have never taken any part in the Woman Suffrage movement. It is a mistake that I was intending to go to Kansas when the subject was under discussion there, and I could not possibly be in Boston on the 10th or 11th of January.

Will you not visit New York some time this winter? If so, I hope you will let me know of it. I should be very happy to see you here. 



A resolution has been introduced in the Senate and passed, calling upon the Interior Department for copies of a ruling made by me as Secretary of the Interior in 1879 with respect to the Northern Pacific railroad land grant, and of other papers connected with the case. I suppose these papers will go to the Judiciary Committee of the Senate for examination as to whether the ruling was in accordance with law. Some newspapers have availed themselves of the introduction of that resolution to charge me with performing that official act under the influence