Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1888-04-07

gate from SOfoSls, IsApEIJA n HOOKER
Mrs Croy [" Jennie
JuneD, Mrs. Mary Wright Sewall and Miss
Willard
In the evening session Lille Devereaux
B AXE spoke on the legal disabilities OIL
women in this county
WASHINGTON, March 81. - Social purity
was the topic discussed by the In erna ionai
Council of Women Friday. Mrs
Elizabeth Lyle Saxon Logan the de-
bate, which was continued by Anna
Rice Powell Mrs. Admission Chant, Caro-
line NJ. S. Frdzar, Harriet b Shattuck,
Clara Hoffman, Frances Willard and others
The topic for the evening session of the
convention was the right Of women to vote.
WAsHINGToN, April Saturday morn
ing's session of the Womans convention
was devoted to review OF the lives OF plo-
neers of the woman's movement
The delegates to the Women's Council
held meeting Saturday afternoon after
the open session had adjourned, adopted a
constitution aud elected officers for the
permanent organization OF National
Council of Women. Following are the OFF,
GERS:
President. Frances f, Willard, Illinois; Vice"
President. Susan Il. Anthony, New York; Cor
responding Secretary, May Wright Sewell, In
diana: Recording Secretary, Mary Il. Eastman,
Massachusetts,; Treasurer Louise Thomas
New York.
The preamble to the constitution is as
follows:
1--WE. women of the United States, sincerely
believing that the best good of our homes ana
Nation will be advanced by cur own greater
unity of thought, sympathy and purpose, ana
that an organized movement OF women
will best reserve the highesL, gd,,,. SeUa sooa
ourselves together in confederation OF
workers committed TO the overthrow oi all
forms OF ignorance and injustice and to the ap-
pl!cation Of the golden rule to society, custom
and law.
The constitution then declares that this coun-
Gil is organized IN the interest OF no one propa-
ganda and has no power over lls auXluafles
beyond that of suggestion ana sympatnA'
therefore. no society voting to become auxllia-
ry to this council shall by that act render ltset
liable to be interfered with in respect to IFS
complete organic unity. independence or
methods Of work, and no socley
thus voting shall be by that act committed 10
any principle or method of any other society OF
to any utterance or act OF the council ITSELF
beyond compliance with the terms ot thls con,
stitution. Any society OF women the hatur'
of whose work Is satisfactory to the EA
ecutiye Committee, either as TO us
undoubted National character or Ma.
tional value, may become auxllary
10 this council by its own vote ana the pdAhleus
Of sum amounting to half cent yearly a
member into the treasury in addition TO It's d.
ennial payment of s45. The National Council
shall hold triennial meetings. The Committee
of Arrangements shall lie composed OF the tN-
ecutive Committee and one delegate chosen by
each auxiliary society as lis representative.
A permanent organ cation for an Inter
national Council of Women was also agreed
upon ind the constitut on of the Natlonai
Council was adopted for the international
organization with such changes as were
necessary to adapt it to Its broader scope
| Officers were chosen as follows:
President Mllicent Fawcett, England; Vice.
| President, Clara Barton, America; Correspond
| ing Secretary, Rachel G. Foster, America Re-
| cording Secretary, Krstine FredericRs on, Dem
mark; Treasurer Isabelle Bogelot, France
Saturday evenings session was devoted
| to discussion of the political condition or
| women
WASHINGTON, April 2-rhe 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 "Women in the Early
Church" and Rev. Antoinette Brown
Blackwell discoursed on Science
and Religious Truth" Addresses were
also made by Elizabeth Boynton Harber;
and Isabella Beecher Hooker, sister oi
Henry Ward Beecher
The night sess on closed the council