Mrs. George Douglas Miller or Albany, first vice-president of the New York Antis, opposed on the ground that the bill was framed and introduced by woman suffragists, and that those appearing for it were not residents of the cities affected, which was also true of herself and the other opponents. She contended that any of these cities could obtain the franchise for its tax-paying women through its charter, as several of the cities Mrs. Frances E. Abbott and Mrs. W. W. Crannell, both of Albany, also spoke. Mrs. Esther Louise Camp, principal of the Albany Academy for Girls, said the bill would prove the entering wedge for creating an aristocracy based on wealth. Mrs. W. Winslow Crannell of Albany said that i n Watervliet, where women were allowed to vote on tax propositions, the politicians went with carriages and took them to the polls to vote the way they wanted them to. Then the suffragists had their turn. Mrs. Mary E. Craigie of Brooklyn read a letter from Bishop Potter. The bishop wrote that many women were better fitted to use the ballot than were a good many men. Mrs. Craigie said tbe suffragists had no new arguments to present, unless it was that women were acquiring more and more property, and for that reason the right to vote at tax elections became a matter of greater importance to them. In New Rochelle women paid 75 per cent. of all the taxes. The Rev. Annis C. Eastman of Ell AMANiS AL bX l .~ :mira spoke so well and so charmingly _W ________AI_ __^_____- 'hthat even the women on the Anti side applauded. New York. N.Mrs. Julia R. Reid of Mount Vernon closed the argument for the bill. Shea A lively hearing was had before the cited facts and figures to show that Senate Committee on Cities in Albany, the women of Mount Vernon were upl on Feb. 5, by advocates and opponents and doing all the time, that they paid of Senator Raines's bill to let tax-pay- a' large proportion of the taxes, and ing women vote on tax questions in that there should be no taxation withthose cities of the third class where out representation. they cannot already do so. In most The suffragists also presented faof them they can, as well as in all the vorable opinions from a number of towns and villages of New York State. Albany ministers. Women of Albany and Buffalo present- Constitutional Amendment Hearing. ed themselves to speak in opposition, On Feb. 6 there was a hearing bebut no women from any of the third- fore the Judiciary Committee on Senclass cities that would be affected by ator Hill's resolution for the submisthe bill. Albany is a strongly anti- sion of a constitutional amendment suffrage place, and the local Antis giving full suffrage to women. There Iwere out in force. They had been was a large attendance. Mrs. Arthur stirred up, it was said, by Bishop M. Dodge of New York City conducted IDoane, whose wife was among those the hearing for the Antis, and Mrs. present. Mary E. Craigie. of Brooklyn for the Mrs. Richard K. Noyes of Buffalo suffragists. spoke for the New York Association Mrs. Emil Kuichling read the Opposed to the Further Extension of "oficial paper" of the Antis, and ISuffrage to Women, speeches in opposition were made by "Have you stopped to consider," she Mrs. Harmon P. Reed and Mrs. W. said, "that it would place the ballot W- Crannell. in the hands. of 60,000 disreputable Among the spealkers on the suffrage women in New York city alone, and side were Mrs. Harriet Stanton that it would give about 3,000,000 Blatch, accompanied by Mrs. Silver negro Women in the United States and Miss Mary Duffy. two worlking the right to vote?" women delegated to represent the i Just how this would be brought Central' Federated Union of Labor, about by a bill giving women tax-pay- which had unanimously endorsed the ers in about a dozen small cities a woman suffiage amendment; iss rote on tax questions, Mrs. Noyes did Anne Fitzhugh Miller; Mrs. Richard noet explain.~a~utasd ? lAldrich, formerly Miss Margaret Liv]... ex-plain.