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532 & nearly four months at the end of 1904. (Aletta H. Jacobs, Memories: My Life as an International Leader in Health, Suffrage, and Peace, ed. Harriet Feinberg [New York, 1996].) 2. On 15 December 1904, the Committee on Territories reported back to the Senate an amended H.R.14749,with “sex”eliminated from the controversial paragraph .A holiday recess delayed scheduling a vote until January.(Washington Post, 16, 17 December 1904; Congressional Record, 58th Cong., 3d sess., 16 December 1904, pp. 340–41.) ••••••••• 263 • SBA to Elizabeth Smith Miller Rochester N.Y. December 22nd, 1904. My dear Friend— I have received the plum pudding and a beautiful letter from your daughter Lou. 1 Many thanks to you for thinking of us and saying on the card the good word you did. I suppose you have received a letter from Senator Beveridge and others , and that you have seen, if he has not written you, that the obnoxious placing of “sex” with idiots and criminals, etc., has been done away with. I have this morning been reading the bill which the Senator sent me, and it has “male citizen” over and over, but I suppose it will be no use to try and get them to drop it. 2 They are the last two territories that are to come in. We have got to learn to fight on some other line, and I think Senator Platt’s bill to cut off the southern representation is the place for it. You see he has a long bill and has to hedge around all sorts of ways in order to hit the south and not take in Massachusetts and other states that have the educational qualifications. It seems to me that now is the time,—after forty years of wandering in the wilderness which the Republicans have had since 1865, 3 —when they put “male”in the 2nd Section of the 14th Amendment ,—to demand of the Republicans to base their representation upon the voters, and say that each state having 60,000 voters shall be entitled to a representative,—it makes no difference whether those voters are black men or white, or black women or white. Then the four states of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho would not have either their base or representation changed, for they already have their full quota. All New York would have to do, if it wanted its quota, would be to enfranchise the women, and 17 december 1904 ^ 533 Massachusetts to remove its educational qualifications, and let all men and women vote. The southern states would have to enfranchise their negroes and women as well. Don’t you think we might begin to harp on this line now? I am going to find Mrs. Stanton’s Resolution, in the early 70’s, upon a speech made by Senator Blaine. 4 It would be splendid if we could get up as big an excitement and produce as much of an effect with this demand as we did with the one that they should strike out “sex.” With love to Nan, and a Merry Christmas to both of you, and to all assembled at your home, I am Affectionately yours, U Susan B. Anthony Y TLS, on NAWSA letterhead, Smith Family Papers, Manuscript Division, NN. Directed to Geneva, N.Y. 1. Louise Gates Willard Miller (1863–1927) was the widow of Charles Dudley Miller II who was killed by a streetcar in Syracuse in 1894. 2. 58th Cong., 3d sess., An Act to enable the people of Oklahoma and of the Indian Territory to form a constitution and State government, in the Senate, 20 April 1904, with amendments 16 December 1904, H.R. 14749. Voting for delegates to a constitutional convention was still limited to males. 3. Num. 14:33. 4. SBA again recalls Senator James Blaine’s efforts to punish disfranchisement in the South by reducing the congressional representation of offending states. At the time, ECS reminded Blaine that his own state of Maine inflated its representation by counting women while leaving them disfranchised. The National Woman Suffrage Association meeting in January 1879 agreed, “Whereas, as announced by Senator Blaine, it is the very essence of tyranny to count any citizens in the basis of representation who are denied a voice in their laws and a choice in their rulers; therefore “Resolved,Thatcountingwomeninthebasisofrepresentation,whiledenying them the right of suffrage, is compelling them to swell the number of their tyrants and is an unwarrantable usurpation of power over...

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