Prolonged Discussions in the Senate on a Special Committee to Look After the Rights of Women, Messrs. Bayard, Morgan and Vest in Opposition--Mr. Hoar Champions the Measure in the Senate, Mr. Reed in the House--Washington Convention--Representative Orth and Senator Saunders on the Woman Suffrage Platform--Hearings Before Select Committees of Senate and House--Reception Given by Mrs. Spofford at the Riggs House--Philadelphia Convention--Mrs. Hannah Whitehall Smith's Dinner--Congratulations from the Central Committee of Great Britain--Majority and Minority Reports in the Senate--E. G. Lapham, J. Z. George--Nebraska Campaign--Conventions in Omaha--Joint Resolution Introduced by Hon. John D. White of Kentucky, Referred to the Select Committee--Washington Convention, January 24, 25, 26, 1883--Majority Report in the House. 198 CHAPTER XXXI. MASSACHUSETTS. The Woman's Hour--Lydia Maria Child Petitions Congress--First New England Convention--The New England, American and Massachusetts Associations--_Woman's Journal_--Bishop Gilbert Haven--The Centennial Tea-Party--County Societies--Concord Convention--Thirtieth Anniversary of the Worcester Convention--School Suffrage Association--Legislative Hearing--First Petitions--The Remonstrants Appear--Women in Politics--Campaign of 1872--Great Meeting in Tremont Temple--Women at the Polls--Provisions of Former State Constitutions--Petitions, 1853--School-Committee Suffrage, 1879,--Women Threatened with Arrest--Changes in the Laws--Woman Now Owns her own Clothing--Harvard Annex--Woman in the Professions--Samuel E. Sewall and William I. Bowditch--Supreme-Court Decisions--Sarah E. Wall--Francis Jackson--Julia Ward Howe--Mary E. Stevens--Lucia M. Peabody--Lelia Josephine Robinson--Eliza (Jackson) Eddy's Will 265 CHAPTER XXXII. CONNECTICUT. Prudence Crandall--Eloquent Reformers--Petitions for Suffrage--The Committee's Report--Frances Ellen Burr--Isabella Beecher Hooker's Reminiscences--Anna Dickinson in the Republican Campaign--State Society Formed October 28, 29, 1869--Enthusiastic Convention in Hartford--Governor Marshall Jewell--He recommends More Liberal Laws for Women--Society Formed in New Haven, 1871--Governor Hubbard's Inaugural, 1877--Samuel Bowles of the _Springfield Republican_--Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford, Chaplain, 1870--John Hooker, Esq., Champions the Suffrage Movement--The Smith Sisters--Mary Hall--Chief-Justice Park--Frances Ellen Burr--Hartford Equal Rights Club 316 CHAPTER XXXIII. RHODE ISLAND. Senator Anthony in _North American Review_--Convention in Providence--State Association organized, Paulina Wright Davis, President--Report of Elizabeth B. Chase--Women on School Boards--Women's Board of Visitors to the Penal and Correctional Institutions--Dr. Wm. F. Channing--Miss Ida Lewis--Letter of Frederick A. Hinckley--Last Words of Senator Anthony 339 CHAPTER XXXIV. MAINE.