We naturally asked the question, As Congress has a special committee on the rights of Indians, why not on those of women?
Are not women, as a factor in civilization, of more importance than Indians?
Secondly, we asked for a room, in the Capitol, where our committee could meet, undisturbed, whenever they saw fit.

Though these points were debated a long time, our demands were acceded to at last.

We now have our special committee, and our room, with "Woman Suffrage" in gilt letters, over the door.

In our struggle to achieve this, while our champion, the senior Senator from Massachusetts, stood up bravely in the discussion, the opposition not only ridiculed the special demand, but all attempts to secure the civil and political rights of women.

As an example of the arguments of the opposition, I give what the Senator from Missouri said.