The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1874-05-22

sponse to the lengthy petition OF over
5000 names, forwarded two years previ-
Gus, Bill, submitted by our Board,
making women eligible to every posi-
ton of authority in the School Depart
ment of the State, passed in the Assem-
bly, by large majority; but, owing to
the lateness of the session, failed to
reach the Senate. And now that it has
been discussed and passed in both
branches of the Legislature is, to us,
source of the deepest satisfaction and
since the end is attained, we care very
little who gets the glory for its achieve
ment.
During the past year the Board has
been hard at work, and with no ele-
meuts of discord in our midst-no petty
jealousies to annoy or ambition to graf
ify-we have gone quietly forward ts,
ward the accomplishment of our one
great object-Woman's Enfranchise-
ment.
A spicy letter from John Taylor, of
Tuolumne county, was then read by
Mrs. De Wolfe. Also numerous letters in
response to the extensive correspondence
of Mrs. Collins, were read by herself
among them, an address to the Conven-
tion from several of the leading ladies
of Salt Lake, giving favorable accounts
of the operation of suffrage upon the
minds Of the women, and thanking the
California Society for its interest in op-
position to the Congressional disfran-
chisement movement also a letter
from Prof. Carr, of California University,
regretting his inability to be present;
from Colonel Winchester, including an
eloquent poem; from Governor Camp
bell, of Wyoming; Virginia Russell, edi-
tor Santa Barbara Hlder; Mrs. Dupee, of
Sacramento, and lengthy address from
the Woman Suffrage Society of Oregon,
by Mrs. Belle w. Cooke.
The following resolutions were then
submitted and adopted:
Resolved, That the present simulta-
neous uprising of women ofthe different
sections of the Union, who are deter
mined, If possible, to destroy the blight
Of that monster scourge, Intemperance,
the product of mans legislation, is an
earnest of the great reform she will in
augurate when she shall be empowered
with the ballot, by which she can crys-
tallize her purifying inspirations into
statutes.
/ ResOlved, That the authorizing by
the last Legislature of California a sub
mission to the electors for a convention
to amend the Constitution, was an i'm
portant and hopeful step for the cause of
Woman Suffrage, and its friends should
earnestly labor to secure a popular vote
| in its favor.
ResolUed, That this Society cordially
commend the NEW NORTHWEST news
paper, as an earnest and able advocate
of the cause of woman.
Resolued, That this Association ten
ders its thanks to Mrs. A. J. Duniway
for her able and efficient labors in this
State in behalf of Temperance and I'm
partial Suffrage, and expresses the hops
that she will make it convenient tC
again visit California at an early day.
On motion of Colonel Collins, voted t.
take a recess till P. NJ.
EVENING SESSION.
At the opening of the evening session
the President read stirring letter from
Colonel Stevens, Esq, of San Jose.
Preferring to listen to the fresh and ear
, nest utterances of Mrs. Duniway, wei
, come stranger in our midst, to the voic
of any of our own speakers, always a
hand, she was again invited to the plat
form, and made grand speech, answer
c ing the objections commonly urge
against Woman's Enfranchisement.
e A reply to the attack of Senator Lain
. upon the suffragists of the country
. pending the discussion Of the Educa
-. tional Bill in the recent California Leg
4 islature, by Mrs. Mary +. Snow, wa
:. omitted, but will be published wit
. other letters and valuable documents i
!. the columns OF the NEW NORTHWEST
!, Resolutions thanking Mrs. Duniwa
:; for her energetic labors in this Stat
s and also endorsing her paper as our su
!. frage organ for the Pacific Coast, wei
r, presented and unanimously adopted, a
/ ter which, on motion, the Conventio
a adjourned sine die. LENA CLARKE,
:. Secretary.