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United States Senate Washington, D.C. Jany 25, 1887
My Dear Miss Anthony,
The vote stood 16 yeas -- 34 nays, 7 pairs which would have made the suffrage vote 23. Mr. Plumb lost his vote by accident & there are several names not voting which I think would have voted yea if at they had voted at all.
You will see the list tomorrow in the Record.
I think we have at least one third of the Senate -- all Republicans, I do not know of a Democratic vote.
Resply Yours H.W. Blair.
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1 So. Oxford Street, Brooklyn.
March 2, 1888
Dear Miss Anthony
Your letter recd & I am thankful for it because it allows me the opportunity of doing two things, send you hearty greeting for all the good you have done & are doing, and also to say that notwithstanding anything you may have read to the contrary I am and always have been in favor of female suffrage. I advocate in my pulpit as well as in private, the trying of the experiment, although
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I have not as much confidence as many of my friends in its power to eradicate the great evils of the day. The government of the United States ought either free women from paying tax or else give them the vote.
Wish I could accept your invitation to attend your National Convention & hear the great womanly leaders, but I must be elsewhere.
May you always dwell in the light!
Yours &c T. De Witt Tahnage
