WHEREAS, The general government has refused to exercise federal
    power to protect women in their right to vote in the various States
    and Territories; therefore

Resolved, That it should forbear to exercise federal power to disfranchise the women of Utah, who have had a more just and liberal spirit shown them by Mormon men than Gentile women in the States have yet received from their rulers.

WHEREAS, The proposed legislation for Chinese women on the Pacific slope and for outcast women in our cities, and the opinion of the press that no respectable woman should be seen in the streets after dark, are all based upon the presumption that woman’s freedom must be forever sacrificed to man’s license; therefore

Resolved, That the ballot in woman’s hand is the only power by which she can restrain the liberty of those men who make our streets and highways dangerous to her, and secure the freedom which belongs to her by day and by night.

An address to President Hayes, asking that in his next message he recommend that women should be protected in their civil and political rights, was signed by Mrs. Stanton, Miss Anthony and Mrs. Gage.  Several ladies, by appointment, had a private audience in the President’s library and a courteous and friendly hearing.  The petition for a Sixteenth Amendment was sent in printed form to every member of Congress, presented in the Senate by Vice-President Wheeler and, at the request of Senator Ferry, was read at length and referred to the committee on privileges and elections.  This was done by the special desire of its chairman, Senator Oliver P. Morton, of Indiana, who stated that he wished to bring in a report in favor of the amendment.[94]

[Autograph:  O.P.  Morton]

Before the committee could act upon this question Senator Morton passed away.  An adverse report was presented by his successor, Senator Bainbridge Wadleigh, of New Hampshire, June 14, 1878.  Among many severe scorings received by this honorable gentleman, the following from Mary Clemmer will serve as an example: 

     ...  You can not be unconscious of the fact that a new race of
    women is born into the world who, while they lack no womanly
    attribute, are the peers of any man in intellect and aspiration.  It
    will be impossible long to deny to such women that equality before
    the law granted to the lowest creature that crawls, if he happen to
    be a man; denied to the highest creature that asks it, if she
    happen to be a woman.