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318 & 2. The National-American established its convention headquarters in the Riggs House, at Fifteenth and G streets, Northwest, and SBA stayed there. 3. Francis Warren introduced Senate Resolution No. 80 on 30 January 1900. (Congressional Record, 56th Cong., 1st sess., 1292.) ••••••••• 143 • John F. Shafroth to SBA Washington, February 4, 1900. My Dear Madam: Your letter of the 2nd inst. received. In reply thereto will say that at the opening of Congress, I introduced a joint resolution proposing a constitutional amendment, which provides that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. 1 This is I presume what you desired to discuss before the Judiciary Committee . With best wishes, I remain, Yours truly, U John F Shafroth Y TLS, on letterhead of House of Representatives, NAWSA Records, Manuscript Division, NN. 1. John Shafroth introduced House Joint Resolution No. 114 on 10 January 1900. (Congressional Record, 56th Cong., 1st sess., 754.) ••••••••• 144 • Interview with ECS [7 February 1900] Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, when asked yesterday whom she would prefer to see chosen president of the National Woman Suffrage Association , Mrs. Blake or Mrs. Catt, said:— 1 “I have no choice either way.Mrs.Blake is a woman of great force,and it is due to her that the cause has been kept alive in New York. She has been instrumental in getting many bills through the Legislature, and she has done splendid work for the last thirty years. “I admire Mrs. Catt greatly. I think her a woman of wonderful ability— 2 february 1900 ...

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