WOMEN ON SCHOOL BOARDS.
Mr. Kenner's bill [H. R. 140] authorizing the election of women to school offices, was read the third time. page: 41[View Page 41]Mr. KENNER--This bill is a copy of the Illinois law, and also similar to those in force in nine of the Northern States. In Vermont one-fourth of the School Boards are women, and the change works well. The House did not see fit to pass the bill giving the right of suffrage to women; this is not in that direction, as the bill does not give them a right to vote on any subject, but simply the right to hold school offices if City Councils, etc., deem them capable. There is nothing imperative about this bill; it simply makes women eligible to all the school offices they are capable of filling. In a great many respects women are more capable than men. They are more throughly acquainted with the ventilation of rooms, have more experience in taking care of children and enforcing the rules for their government. I think the bill ought to pass.
The bill passed--yeas, 66; nays, 11.
