After making recommendations in regard to the Local Govern- ;neat
•Register and for preserving the electoral rights of soldiers and sailors, the Conference proceed to touch the thorny subject of Woman Suffrage. - Here the majority reported that if Parliament should. decide to accept the principle, the most praetioal form would be to confer the vote in the terms of the following resolution :—
" Any woman on the Local Government Register who has attained
a she age, and, the wife of any man who is on that Register if she has attained that age, shall be entitled to be registered and to as a Parliamentary elector. Various ages were discussed, of svhich thirty and thirty-4Iva received most favour. The Conference further resolved that if Parliament decides to enfranchise women, a woman of the specified age, who is a graduate of any University having Parlia- mentary representation, shall be entitled to vote as a University elector."
We are bound to say that though there is a good deal to be said for an age-limit, it is difficult to sec why it should be applied to women but not to men. For ourselves, we think twenty-one too early for any ono, whether man or woman, to receive a Tote. Those who are to have a vote should not receive it till they enter upon their twenty-sixth year.
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