in the right to vote under the amendments.  Now I want to give you a few points where the United States interferes to take away the right to vote from women where the State has given it to them.  In Wyoming, for instance, by a Democratic legislature, the women were enfranchised.  They were not only allowed to vote but to sit upon juries, the same as men.  Those of you who read the reports giving; the results of that action have not forgotten that the first result of women sitting upon juries was that wherever there was a violation of the whisky law they brought in verdicts accordingly for the execution of the law; and you will remember, too, that the first man who ever had a verdict of guilty for murder in the first degree in that Territory was tried by a jury made up largely of women.  Always up to that day every jury had brought in a verdict of shot in self-defense, although the person shot down may have been entirely unarmed.  Then, in cities like Cheyenne and Laramie, persons entered complaints against keepers of houses of ill-fame.

Women were on the jury, and the result was in every case that before the juries could bring in a bill of indictment the women had taken the train and left the town.  Why do you hear no more of women sitting on juries in that Territory?  Simply because the United States marshal, who is appointed by the President to go to Wyoming, refuses to put the names of women into the box from which the jury is drawn.  There the United States Government interferes to take the right away.

A DELEGATE.  I should like to state that Governor Hoyt, of Wyoming, who was the governor who signed the act giving to women this right, informed me that the right had been restored, and that his sister, who resides there, recently served on a jury.

MISS ANTHONY.  I am glad to hear it.  It is two years since I was there, but I was told that that was the case.  In Utah the women were given the right to vote, but a year and a half ago their Legislative Assembly found that although they had the right to vote the Territorial law provided that only male voters should hold office.  The Legislative Assembly of Utah passed a bill providing that women should be eligible to all the offices of the Territory.  The school offices, superintendents of schools, were the offices in particular to which the women wanted to be elected.  Governor Emory, appointed by the President of the United States, vetoed that bill.  Thus the full operations of enfranchisement conferred by two of the Territories has been stopped by Federal interference.

You ask why I come here instead of going to the State Legislatures.  You say that whenever the Legislatures extend the right of suffrage to us by the constitutions of their States we can get it.  Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Colorado, Kansas, Oregon, all these States, have had the school suffrage extended by legislative