Chapter 3

CONGRESSIONAL REPORTS AND CONVENTIONS.

1880-1881.

Why we Hold Conventions in Washington--Lincoln Hall Demonstration--Sixty-six Thousand Appeals--Petitions Presented in Congress--Hon. T. W. Ferry of Michigan in the Senate--Hon. Geo. B. Loring of Massachusetts in the House--Hon. J. J. Davis of North Carolina Objected--Twelfth Washington Convention--Hearings before the Judiciary Committee of both Houses, 1880--May Anniversary at Indianapolis--Series of Western Conventions--Presidential Nominating Conventions--Delegates and Addresses to each--Mass-Meeting at Chicago--Washington Convention, 1881--Memorial Service to Lucretia Mott--Mrs. Stanton's Eulogy--Discussion in the Senate on a Standing Committee--Senator McDonald of Indiana Champions the Measure--May Anniversary in Boston--Conventions in the chief cities of New England 150