U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting

Jane Addams
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Testimony at a Hearing before the Committee on Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives - Dec. 3, 1913
December 3, 1913
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I had the honor of appearing before you last August as woman voter when you very kindly received the delegation of woman voters who were meeting here in Washington. With your permission I will refer to a little discussion at that time and to a point which the committee made and which seemed to me at the moment well taken, that the Rules Committee had no power to appoint a committee on woman 's suffrage because of the fact that Congress did not […]
Ida Husted Harper
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Testimony at a Hearing before the Committee on Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives - Dec. 3, 1913
December 3, 1913
Gentlemen, this is not the time or place to enter into an argument on the merits or demerits of woman suffrage, and we shall use the valuable hours you have so graciously accorded us simply to ask that you will give us a committee of our very own, before which we may feel that we have a right to discuss this question. In making this request we ask you to decide, first, whether the issue of woman suffrage is sufficiently national in its character to justify a special committee for […]
Helen Hamilton Gardener
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Testimony at a Hearing before the Committee on Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives - Dec. 3, 1913
December 3, 1913
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the Rules Committee, as I understand it, this hearing is not to be a forum for the discussion of the general question of woman suffrage but is to be confined to the one point for which this committee has appointed this time for discussion, namely, whether or not the Rules Committee shall recommend to Congress the appointment of a committee on woman suffrage for the House of Representatives, whose duty it shall be to give such of its time and attention to this question as […]
Anna Howard Shaw
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement at a Hearing before the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage - Feb. 18, 1902
February 18, 1902
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, in closing what we women have to say to you this morning in our own behalf, I am not going to make an argument, but to recall to your minds again, as Miss Anthony did in the beginning, that for thirty-two years we have been coming before your honorable body asking 36 that your committee shall report to the honorable Senate of the United States a bill for a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution. Miss Anthony gave you the reasons why we want […]
Carrie Chapman Catt
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Statement before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary - Feb. 18, 1902
February 18, 1902
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, we have with us a delegate from England who was to have spoken this morning and who will undoubtedly arrive later but who is not here now. I have a favor to ask of this committee in an official capacity. It is something we have never asked before. We realize full well, and understand enough of human nature to know, that it is not a question of the actual merit of woman suffrage which must be considered by the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives. […]
Alice Stone Blackwell
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
The Indifference of Women - Feb. 15, 1898
February 15, 1898
Blackwell gave this speech at a hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives. It is often said that the chief obstacle to equal suffrage is the indifference and opposition of women, and that whenever the majority of women ask for the ballot they will get it. But it is a simple historical fact that every improvement thus far made in the condition of women has been secured, not by a general demand from the majority of women, but by the arguments, entreaties, and “continual […]
Lucy Stone
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Hearing of the Woman Suffrage Association Before the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary - Jan. 18, 1892
January 18, 1892
Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I arrived in town only last night and did not even know of a hearing here to-day, so I have not any speech prepared. Nevertheless I am glad to be here, and I am glad to see this committee, and—I suppose I have the right to say it—I am glad to see you are the kind of looking men I see before me. It is something on our side to have you be the men you seem to be. I come before this […]
Lillie Devereux Blake
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary of the House of Representatives - Feb. 13, 1900
February 13, 1900
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the Committee: We are here to ask you to take measures to protect all the women of this nation in the right of suffrage, a privilege now most unjustly denied to a majority of them, who are still in the condition of the subjects of a monarchy, forced to submit to a government to which they have not consented and to pay taxes without representation. A few considerations will prove that this injustice, this denial of our chartered rights, is inflicted in defiance of the […]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Hearing before the Committee on Judiciary of the House of Representatives - Feb. 13, 1900
February 13, 1900
This address was written by Stanton and read by Harriet May Mills. Honorable Gentlemen: In adjusting the rights of citizens in our newly acquired possessions, the whole question of suffrage is again fairly open for discussion in the House of Representatives; and as some of the States are depriving the colored men of the exercise of the right of suffrage, and all of the States, except four, deny it to all women, I ask Congress to pass an amendment to the national Constitution declaring that citizens not allowed a voice […]
Victoria C Woodhull
categories: Speeches, U.S. House Committee/Subcommittee Meeting
Address to the Judiciary Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives – Jan. 11, 1871
January 11, 1871
With this address, Woodhull became the first woman to address a U.S. House committee. To the Honorable the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives of the Congress of the United States : Having most respectfully memorialized Congress for the passage of such laws as in its wisdom shall seem necessary and proper to carry into effect the rights vested by the Constitution of the United States in the citizens to vote, without regard to sex, I beg leave to submit to your honorable body the following in favor of […]