Before the Judiciary Committees of the House and Senate appeared representatives of the National Woman's Party, to lobby for the "Lucretia Mott Amendment" which they wished as a companion to the "Susan B. Anthony" (Woman Suffrage) Amendment. The proposed amendment reads:
Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
The expression "equal rights" is the crux of the Amendment. It means not only equal rights in matters of citizenship and property, in...