Debate in the House on a Special Woman Suffrage Committee -- Extracts from speeches of John H. Reagan on Awful Effects of Woman Suffrage -- James B. Belford on Woman's Right to a Special Committee -- J. Warren Keifer on Justice of the Enfranchisement of Women -- John D. White on Woman's Right to be Heard -- Hearing before Senate Committee -- Interdependence of Men and Women -- Woman Suffrage a Paramount Question -- A Right does not Depend on a Majority's Asking for It -- Woman's Ballot for the Good of the Race -- Preponderance of Foreign Vote -- Miss Anthony on Action by Congress vs. Action by Legislatures -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Self-Government the Best Means of Self-Development; moral need of woman's ballot, men as natural protectors, inherent right of self-representation -- Favorable Senate Report -- Adverse House Report by William C. Maybury -- Editorial comment -- Luke P. Poland on Men Should Represent Women -- Strong Report in Favor by Thomas B. Reed, Ezra B. Taylor, Moses A. McCoid, Thomas M. Browne. CHAPTER IV. THE NATIONAL SUFFRAGE CONVENTION OF 1885 56-69 Startling descriptions of delegates' attire -- Mrs. Stanton on Separate Spheres an Impossibility -- Discussion on resolution denouncing Religious Dogmas -- Criticism by ministers -- Great speech in favor of Woman Suffrage in the U. S. Senate by Thomas W. Palmer; action by Congress a necessity, Scriptures not opposed to the equality of woman, figures of women's vote, State needs woman's ballot. CHAPTER V. THE NATIONAL SUFFRAGE CONVENTION OF 1886 70-84 Relation of the Woman Suffrage Movement to the Labor Question -- Take Down the Barriers -- German and American Independence Contrasted -- Resolution condemning Creeds and Dogmas again discussed -- Woman's Right to Vote under Fourteenth Amendment -- Disfranchisement Cuts Women's Wages -- One-half No Right to a Vote on Liberties of Other Half -- Woman Suffrage Necessary for Life of Republic -- America lags behind in granting political rights to women -- Minority House Report in favor of a Sixteenth Amendment by Ezra B. Taylor, W. P. Hepburn, Lucian B. Caswell, A. A. Ranney; men hold franchise by force, women require it for development, history of woman one of wrong and outrage, Government needs woman's vote, no excuse for waiting till majority demand it. CHAPTER VI. FIRST DISCUSSION AND VOTE IN U. S. SENATE, 1887 85-111