and for members of provincial diets. Women who are landed proprietors may vote in Bohemia by proxy for members of the Imperial Parliament and the local diet. In Saxony women vote on same terms as men; married women by proxy, single women directly. Women have municipal suffrage in Moravia by proxy. In Austria-Hungary they vote by proxy for all elective officers. In Croatia and Dalmatia women vote at local elections in person. In Italy widows with property vole by proxy for members of Parliament. In Prussia women vote by proxy at local elections and for members of provincial diets In Belgium women taxpayers have municipal suffrage by proxy, and in Luxemburg for members of the Legislature also. In Switzerland women real estate owners have local suffrage in the Canton of Berne. In Rumania women taxpayers have municipal suffrage by proxy.

ANTI-WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

There was no open action against the granting of suffrage to women by the women of the country until the New-York Constitutional Convention was held at the State Capitol in May and June, 1894. The women who favored the granting of the franchise claimed that while only a few women openly espoused the cause all the other women silently favored it or were indifferent. For this reason they were gaining ground with legislators. In order to contradict the error, and to give to the members of the Constitutional Convention a correct knowledge of the desires of the women of the State, an organization of women opposed to the granting of suffrage to women was founded in Brooklyn, N. Y., with such women as Mrs. Lyman Abbott, Mrs. William Putnam, and others as well known, at its head. This was quickly followed by an organization in Albany, N. Y., headed by Mrs. John V. L. Pruyn, Mrs. William Bayard Van Rensselaer and about 200 other prominent women. New-York followed with an organization headed by Mrs. Francis M. Scott, Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Elihu Rout, Mrs. Douglas Robinson and others equally prominent. In a few weeks thousands of names of women over twenty-one years old were enrolled in protest to the proposed amendment, Albany sending over 8,000 names.

After the adjournment of the convention the organizations, with the exception of the one at Albany, disbanded. Later it was believed advisable to reorganize as a State association, with headquarters at New-York, That was done, and auxiliaries were formed in the different judicial districts. This association has kept posted on the workings of the suffragists. Mrs. Francis M. Scott is still honorary chairman, with a standing committee of one hundred representative women.

Massachusetts had, for a score of years prior to 1894, a number of women who worked quietly and anonymously in opposition to the granting of suffrage to the women of that State. When New-York organized openly Massachusetts followed with an organization, which rapidly spread from the confines of Boston and Charlestown over the whole State, so that now they have 27 branch associations. New-York has five auxiliaries in five judicial districts. The National organization was established, with Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, of New-York, and Mrs. Henry M. Whitney, of Boston, as chairmen of the interstate committees.

The following account of the defeats of the suffrage for women in 1901 was prepared by Mrs. George Phillips, of No. 165 West Eighty-second-st., New-York, secretary of the New-York State Association Opposed to the Extension of the Suffrage to Women: CALIFORNIA-March 9 a bill for women to vote upon issuance of school bonds or levy of school taxes was defeated by a vote in the House of 21 to 14.

NEW-MEXICO—February 25 a woman suffrage resolution was defeated in the House by a vote of 21 to 2.

ARIZONA-March 8 a woman suffrage bill was defeated in the House by a vote

of 17 to 7.

SOUTH DAKOTA-February 14 a. resolution to submit the question of woman suffrage to the people was shelved in the Serate by a vote of 26 to 17.

KANSAS-March 2 the bill giving women the right to vote for Presidential electors was defeated by a vote in the Senate of 23 to 14.

INDIANA-The House passed a bill for an amendment giving women the suffrage, which was promptly killed by the Senate because "less than 10 per cent of the women care to exercise it."

WISCONSIN-March 12 a bill for woman suffrage was killed in the Senate without the formality of debate.

ILLINOIS-April 27 the Ilouse of Representatives killed the measure framed to extend women's suffrage to township elections.

CONNECTICUT-June 6 a bill for woman suffrage was rejected in concurrence with the Senate by a vote of 119 to 53.

MASSACHUSETTS—March 15 the House defeated a proposition for woman suffrage by a vote of 156 to 53.

Within the last six years four States have been organized to oppose the extension of the suffrage to women, as follows: New-York, March, 1895; Massachusetts, May, 1895; Illinois, May, 1897; Oregon, 1899. In 1900 the women of Victoria, Australia, organized on similar lines and for the same purpose,

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