Four years later Mrs.Mott is herself the presiding officer.] [Footnote 14: Several of the speakers had weak, piping voices which did not reach beyond a few of the front seats and, after one of these had finished, Miss Anthony said: "Mrs.President, I move that hereafter the papers shall be given to some one to read who can be heard.

It is an imposition on an audience to have to sit quietly through a long speech of which they can not hear a word.

We do not stand up here to be seen, but to be heard." Then there was a protest.

Mrs.Davis said she wished it understood that "ladies did not come there to screech; they came to behave like ladies and to speak like ladies." Miss Anthony held her ground, declaring that the question of being ladylike had nothing to do with it; the business of any one who read a paper was to be heard.

Mr.
May, always the peacemaker, said Miss Anthony was right; there was not a woman that had spoken in the convention who if she had been in her own home would not have adjusted her voice to the occasion.