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2d Session

No. 754

COMMITTEE ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE

HEARING

BEFORE

THE COMMITTEE ON RULES

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SIXTY-THIRD CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING A COMMITTEE

ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE

DECEMBER 3, 4, AND 5, 1913

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

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COMMITTEE ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

COMMITTEE ON RULES, Washington, December 3, 1913.

The committee met at 10.30 o'clock a. m., Hon. Robert L. Henry (chairman) presiding.

Present: Representatives Campbell, Garrett, Lenroot, Hardwick, Kelly, and Pou.

The CHAIRMAN. The committee will be in order. The Committee on Rules has assembled to-day for the purpose of having a hearing pertaining to a series of resolutions on the subject of woman's suffrage. Dr. Shaw will take charge of the proceedings on the part of the proponents of the resolutions.

Mr. KELLY. Mr. Chairman, before proceeding with the hearing I wish to introduce the following resolution, which I will ask the clerk to read:

The clerk (reading):

Whereas the question of equal suffrage is one of vital public interest and the people of the Nation have an inherent right to full knowledge of the action upon it by their representatives in Congress and the committees of Congress; therefore, be it

Resolved, That all hearings upon this subject before the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives be open to the public and that all executive sessions of the committee be dispensed with in order that discussion in the committee and the final vote shall be a matter of public record.

Mr. KELLY. Mr. Chairman, the purpose of the resolution is simply to give what seems to be an inherent right, and that is the right of the people to realize the attitude of their representatives. I introduced this resolution with the hope that the committee will pass it, so that all executive sessions will be dispensed with and the final vote will be a matter of public record. I ask for a vote on the resolution.

The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, a member of the Committee on Rules, has offered a resolution and the Chair will take the liberty of reading it again (reading):

Whereas the question of equal suffrage is one of vital public interest, and the people of the Nation have an inherent right to full knowledge of the action upon it by their representatives in Congress and the committees of Congress; therefore, be it

Resolved, That all hearings upon this subject before the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives be open to the public, and that all executive sessions of the committee be dispensed with in order that the discussion in the committee and the final vote shall be a matter of public record.

To this resolution Mr. Lenroot of Wisconsin offers the amendment to strike out the words "and that the executive sessions of the com

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