Extending the Right of Suffrage to Women. Hearings ... on H.J. Res. 200 ... Jan. 3-7, 1918

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Страница 281 - But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Страница 158 - The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. (2) Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article.
Страница 234 - Without objection, they will be inserted in the record at this point. (The telegrams referred to are as follows:) PONCE, PR, February 12, 1934.
Страница 158 - Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring) : That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
Страница 224 - Man's work is from sun to sun, But woman's work is never done.
Страница 216 - Resolved that the members of the first branch of the National Legislature ought to be elected by the people of the several States...
Страница 59 - Of about 100 children born you know that about 16 are dead by the end of the first year. By the end of the fifth year 22 are dead.
Страница 12 - ... as nonmailable. The present law declares liquors to be nonmailable matter in the following language: Providing that all spirituous, vinous, malted, fermented, or other intoxicating liquors of any kind are hereby declared to be nonmailable and shall not be deposited in or carried through the mails. The CHAIRMAN. Would it interrupt you if I asked you a question? Senator SHEPPARD. Not at all. The CHAIRMAN. Do you recall whether the Reed amendment has ever been repealed? Senator SHEPPARD. It has,...
Страница 111 - ... will Mr. KELLEHER. None that are pending, Mr. Chairman. After finishing the general provisions, you could then go back to the Army and go through the whole bill for all amendments. That is your usual practice. The CHAIRMAN. That is right. All right. Now, we will take a recess until Monday morning. I want to thank all of the members of the committee for coming this morning. Mr. LANKFORD. Ten o'clock ? Mr. KELLEHER. Ten o'clock. (Whereupon, at...
Страница 33 - When in a democratic political society the well-matured, long, and deliberately formed will of the undoubted majority can be persistently and successfully thwarted in the amendment of its organic law by the will of the minority, there is just as much danger to the State from revolution and violence as there is from the caprice of the majority where the sovereignty of the bare majority is acknowledged.

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