WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Mr. SPANN moved to postpone the consideration of the Civil Code bill and take up the special order set for this hour, being the bill [S. 186] to extend the elective franchise in the election for choice of Electors for President and Vice President of the United States to every female having the same qualification that would entitle her to vote as if she were a male.
The motion was agreed to by yeas, 30; nays, 18.
On motion by Mr. WILSON, the Senate took a recess for one hour, in order to give ladies representing the Woman's Suffrage Association of Indiana an opportunity to address Senators.
Mrs. Dr. Haggart was first introduced, and her remarks were of similar purport to those delivered by her in the House yesterday. In the course of her dissertation upon the rights of women she took occasion to say that there were more women employed in the manufactory of cotton goods and clothing, and in teaching; that there were more boys than girls in the Reformatories, more men than women in the Penitentiaries, and more men than women addicted to chewing tobacco and drinking whisky.
Mrs. Haggart was followed by Mrs. Helen M. Gougar, and Mrs. Mary Thomas, the latter urging that in view of the fact of the women having their petitions for the ballot before the Legislatures of eleven States this winter, the Indiana General Assembly had a great and glorious opportunity to be the first in the field for the recognition of the rights of women.
