The Fortnightly Literary Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, sent this letter urging changes to a paragraph in the Statehood Bill to Senator N. B. Scott.
The bill would admit Oklahoma and Indian Territory (as one state) and Arizona and New Mexico (as one state) into the union, and included a line that “said states shall never enact any law restricting the right of suffrage on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude, except on account of illiteracy, minority, conviction of felony, mental condition, or sex.” The club asks that the word sex be removed, or that the entire paragraph be omitted.
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