Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-01-18
WOMAN SUFFRAGE,
First Business Meeting Of the National Asso-
citation Convention.

ctat1on Convention
SLOW IN GETTING TOGETHER on Ac COUNT OF THE
HEARING BEFORE THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
MRS. OVERLAND PREsIpEs-PRoGRAxs FOR THIS
AFTERNOON AND roSIaHr-soxE OF THE DBL
EaArEs PRESENT.
Once again the National American Woman
Suffrage Association is holding its annual con-
vention in this city. Tho convention began
with devotional service yesterday afternoon,
and the first business session was held this
morning ut 10 O'Clock. The convention will
last over Thursday. with three sessions each
day. and will close on Thursday evening with q
reception rendered to the members and dele
gates OF the association by the Suffrage Asso-
citation Of the District Of Columbia.
The convention this year promises to be not
nearly as large as the one last year That one
began Immediately after the close of the great
woman's council in February, and the fact that
these TWO important conventions were held
together and in the same week was sufficient 20
orlng together an unusually large ndmber of
the prominent women who are interested in
the various branches of work for women. The
sessions OF both conventions were held in
Albsugh's Opera House and we're attended by
large crowds. 1t was literally woman's week.
SLOW IN GETTING TOGETHER.
The meeting this morning began tine business
session OF the twenty-fourth annual convention
OF the association. It was held in the Church
OF Our Father, at the corner Of 18th and L
streets, and Notwithstanding the very I'M
pleasant weather there was an audience large
enough to comfortably fill the main body of
the church. At the end of each pew was raised
small yellow banneret bearing the name of the
state delegation to which it assigned,
and draped over the balcony above the plat
form was big flag that had in tie corner only
one star and the name of Wyoming, the first
state in the Union to recognize the claims of
women to equal rights. Wyoming as a state
has a warm place in the corner of every suffra-
glsts heart and by many is locked upon far
more desirable than the state of matrmony.
There were few mon in the audience this
morning, but they were far outnumbered by
the women; it would net be safe to say by the
members Of the weaker sex. The meeting was
very slow, owing to the fact that the House
judiciary committee had given hearing to the
association that WAS set down fer 10 o'clock
this morning. Susan b. Anthony, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone, the veterans Of the
suffrage movement. had gone up 20 the Capitol
to speak before the committee. and it was a
matter of some difficulty to start the conven-
ton without either one OF this famous trio
present.
MRS. OVERLAND PREsIDEs
In their absence Mrs. Everhard of Massilion,
Ohio, president of the Ohio state association,
the deliberations of the morning were begun
by an earnest prayer for grace and help upou
the work by Rev. Anna III. Shaw. She asked
for special blessing upon the words spoken
by their representatives before Congress IN
their appeal fer rights that had been wrested
from women.
After the reading of the roll call of delegates
by Miss Shaw the minutes of the convention of
year ago and the meetings Of the executive
committee held since then were read by the
recording secretary. Alice Stone Blackwell.
In the absence of the corresponding secre-
tary, Rachel Foster Avery, her report was
read by her representative, Miss Lucy An
thony. The report showed that during the
past year there had been unprecedented ac-
tivity along the lines of agitation and organiza-
sumo of statistics made up from the reports of
the various presidents of state organizations.
showing the status Of the suffrage question and
the position of women in each state.
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell read the report Of
her mother, Lucy Stone. chairman of the
executive committee. A committee on resolu-
lions, one from each state delegation, was
appointed, consisting of Mrs. Lide Meriwether,
Miss Sarah Smith, Elizabeth Lyle Saxon, Mary
b. Thomas. Mrs. L. A. Demmon, Mrs. Ellen H.
Z. Price, Mrs. E. NJ. S. Marble, Mrs. Holmes,
Mrs. Murphy, Miss Lavinia A. Hatch, Henry E.
Blackwell, Miss Laura Clay, Miss Bowles.
Neither of the ladies who were down on the
program to make ten-mInute reports of work
In their states were present this morning, and,
at ll:3O, after being in session about an hour,
the meeting adjourned. The program for the
afternoon and evening sessions is as follows:
Second executive session, 80 pm Minutes.
Report OF committee on credentials; amend
ments to constitution; ten-minute reports from
presidents Of auxiliary state societies.
Evening session, 7:45 O'Clock. Music. '.The
Solitude of Sell" Elizabeth Cady Stanton; .'The
Golden Rule" Caroline Hallowell Miller; "The
Outlook" Lucy Stone, Oh. Ex. Com.
SOME OF THE DELEGATES PRESENT.
Among those who are already present for the
convention are: Mary J. Coggeshell, Des
Moines Iowa: C. Holt Flint and Nellie C. Flint,
Des Moines; Judith w. Smith and Sylvanus
Smith, East Boston, Mass; Mrs. Olive Pond
Amies, Philadelphia; Mrs. l.. A. Demmon, Mt.
S SarE0ll H. Mrs Mrs: Eliza r. Whiting,
Smith: seymour, Conn; Mrs. Martha
Mrs. Josephine Patton, Beloit, Kan; Mrs Eu-
genia b. Farmer. Covington, KY; Isabella
Beecher Hooker, Hartford, Conn; Harriet Tay
lor Upton. Warren, Ohio; Alice Stone Black
well. Dorchester, Mass; NJ W. Chapman,
Brooklyn; Mary S. Anthony. Rochester, n. Y;
Mrs. Geo. W. Donker, Brooklyn; Sarah S. Mil
Ter, Sandy Springs, Nd; Elisan Brown, Winches-
ter, Va; Charlotte A. Cleveland. Perry, n. Y:
Mrs Claudia Murphy, Toledo. Ohio; Miss Laura
Clay, Lexington, KY. C. Mccullough overheard
Massillon, Ohio; Mary F. Lang. Toledo Ohio;
Mrs. +. A. Schumacher, Akron. Ohio; Mrs. c.
II. Brooke. Miss Eliza Brooke, Chas. II. Brooke
Sandy Spring, Nd; Mrs. E. V. Spencer. Susan
vile, Cal. H. Augusta Howard, Columbus. Ca
Miriam Howard DuBose, Columbus Ga: Carrie
Lane Chapman, Seattle, Wash; Elizabeth j.
Van Everen, Mary E. Van Everen, Brooklyn;
Miss Jessie Ridley, Brooklyn, and Ada Ii.
Jarrett, New Mexico
BEFORE THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE.
With persistency which never flags the wo-
man suffragists got after Congress today as
they have at the beginning of each Congress
for years. During the last Congress they got a
favorable report from the House judiciary
committee, having convinced that committee
that Miss Anthony, Mrs. Stanton and the rest
have been right all along in their defense of
the rights of women to unrestricted citizen.
ship.
This time there are several new members ON
the committee and they have their work to do
over again. They started at it with all the
earnestness and enthusiasm as if it were their
first attempt. and they were flushed with hope.
They appeared before the judiciary COM
mittee at 10 o'clock this morning and had
about an hour and half for their talk
1t had been purposely arranged that this
hearing should occur during the session Of the
suffrage convention down town, SO "a to
avoid crowd in the committee room, vet
there wero as many present the room
would hold. The principal talk was
by Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who spoke on
the rights of individuals, denying the authority
OF government to abridge such rights on ac-
count of sex. Mrs. Stanton ia a woman of DOW.