Excerpt from The Political Status of Women in the United States: A Digest of the Laws Concerning Women in the Various States and Territories On January 20, 1910, the Conference of Governors at their meeting at the National Capital extended to a committee of The Women's Political Union the privilege of presenting to their honorable body the following appeal: To the Conference of Governors: "As one of the objects of your Conference is to establish in the separate states uniform legislation upon those questions which seem to demand a national policy, yet in regard to which federal action is impossible or inadvisable, we, a committee of women from the State of New York, feel that it will not be out of place to suggest that the political position of women in the several states is a question worthy of your most earnest consideration. This question, like the others with which your Conference will deal, is not likely to be settled nationally, but will, in the future as in the past, be entirely a matter of State action. "It is also a question which because of lack of uniformity in the electoral laws of the several states causes discontent in a large body of our citizens. No other laws in the separate states stand in greater contrast than those dealing with the political rights of women. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.