The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-06

e. 60 80 "a $50 ISABELLA B. HOOKER
June"), Mrs Mary Wright Sewall and Miss
Willard
In the evening session Lille Devereaux
Blake spoke on the legal disabilities of
women in this country
WASHINGTON, March 81. - Social purity
was the topic discussed by the In! irrational
Council of Women Friday. Mrs
Elizabeth Lyle Saxon began the de-
bate which was continued by Anna
Rice Powell, Mrs. Admission Chant Caro-
line NJ S. Frazar, Harriet 3. Shattuck,
Clara Hoffman, Frances Willard and others.
The topic for the evening session of the
convention vYas the right of women to vote.
WASHINGTON, April 2.-Saturday morn
ing's session of the Woman's convention
was devoted to a review OF the lives of pio-
neers of the woman's movement
The delegates to the Womens Council
held q meeting Saturday afternoon after
the open session had adjourned, adopted
constitution and elected officers for the
permanent organization of a National
Council of Women. Following are the Off
GERS:
President, Frances E. Willard, Illinois; Vice.
President, Susan B. Anthony, New York: Cor
responding Secretary, May Wright Sewell, In
diana: Recording Secretary, Mary E. Eastman,
Massachusetts; Treasurer, Louise Thomas,
New York.
The preamble to the constitution is as
follows:
"We women of the United States, sincerely
believing that the best good of our homes and
Nation will be advanced by our own greater
unity of thought sympathy and purpose, ana
that an organized movement of women
will best reserve the highest good
of the family and the State, do hereby band
ourselves together in confederation OF
fo6 IN bn tI1rcHu Of al
forms of ignorance and injustice and to the ap-
plication of the golden rule to society, custom
and law"
Gil is organized in the interest of no one propa-
ganda and has no power over its auXiharies
beyond that of suggestion and sympathy;
therefore, no society voting to become auxilia.
Ty to this council shall by that act render itself
liable to be interfered with in respect to its
complete organic unity. independence or
meh Tn s Of % S that ana act n9 S
any principle or method of any other society or
to any utterance or act of the council itself
beyond compliance with the terms OF this con-
stitution. Any society OF women the nature
of whose work is satisfactory to the Elk
ecutive Committee, either as to its
undoubted National character or Ma
to this council by its own vote and the payment
of sum amounting to half a cent yearly a
member into the treasury in addition to its BIZ
enniai payment of S25. The National Council
shall hold triennial meetings. The Committee
of Arrangements shall be composed of the EX-
ecutive Committee and one delegate chosen by
each auxiliary society as its representative.
A permanent organization for an Inter
national Council of Women was also agreed
upon and the constitution of the National
Council was adopted for the international
organization with such changes as were
necessary to adapt it to It's broader scope.
Officers were chosen asfollows:
President, Millicent Fawcett, England; Vice
President, Clara Barton America; Correspond
ing Secretary, Rachel G. Foster, America; Re-
cording Secretary, Kirstine Fredericks on, Dem
mark; Treasurer, Isabelle Bogelot, France.
Saturday evenings session was devoted
to discussion of the political condition of
women.
WASHINGTON, April 2-Tbe Sunday after
noon session of the International Council of
Women was opened with an invocation by
Mrs John P Newman and the singing OF
hymn, after which Matilda Joslyn Gage
spoke of sWomen in the Early
| Church" and Rev. Antoinette Brown
Blackwell discoursed on Science
and Religious Truth" Addresses were
also made by Elizabeth Boynton Harber5
| and Isabella Beecher Hooker, sister Of
| Henry Ward Beecher.
| The night session closed the council.