The Polyglot petition, when presented in Washington, was over two thousand yards long. A Bill authorising county judges to commit persons to “ drink cures ” at the county’s expense, w'here the person is unable to pay for it, has been favoured by the Wisconsin Legisture’s Committee on Charitable and Penal Institutions. Women Suftrage Bills have recently been before the Legislatures of six American States—viz ,in North Dakota, Montana, Washington, Aiizona, and California. Early in the year two other States, Idaho and Oregon, passed Bills through both Houses calling for a popular vote on woman suffrage.
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White Ribbon, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1 May 1895, Page 7
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94Untitled White Ribbon, Volume 1, Issue 1, 1 May 1895, Page 7
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