Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-01-14
THE woMANs CONVENTION.
The National American Suffrage Associations
to Meet Bere Tomorrow.

The National American suffrage Association
to Meet Hcr~ Tomorrow.
The twenty-ffth annual convention Of the
National American Woman suffrage As
sociation will be opened tomorrow in
Metzerott's Hall at 5 O'Clock with
religious services Rev Anna r. Eastman q
New York will preach the sermon. The con-
vention will continue until Friday. public -e.-
sions being held at 10 q m. 2 so and pm.
The detailed program for each days session
is announced ~ follows: Monday, executive
committee meeting. sam. 10 O'Clock. conven-
ton called 20 order by the president, susan n
Anthony. Roll call OF officer. vice presidents
and state members Of the executive cOmmittee
Minutes Of the closing business session
Of the tweny-fourth annual convention,
Alice Stone Blackwell, recording secretArs.
Report Of the vice president AZ large. Anna
Howard Shaw: report Of corresponding -ecre-
tary, Rachel Foster Avery; report of treasurer.
Harriet Taylor Upton, announcement Of com
mittees. &c
Afternoon. 2 so O'Clock -Repces Of eredeutial.
committee, amendments Of the constitution
and by laws
Evening. q o'cIock-Prayer, music. address 20
welcome, Senator J. VI. Carey Of Nyomingi
presidents address, Susan d. Anthony Of Ne~
York.
TUESDAY, JANUARY H.
Morning. 10 o'clock-Minutes. Report Of
committee on the press Harriet Taylor Upton.
Ohio; report OF Kansas constitutional cam
paign committee. Laura NJ. Johns: reports BY
presidents OF auxiliary state societies-kans.s,
Laura NJ. Johns; Kentucky, Laura Clay; Ms--a-
chusetts. Lucy Stone; Massachusetts national,
A. Il. Dickinson; Michigan. Emily b. ketchami
Minnesota, Julia b. Nelson; Montana, Marie L.
Mason.
Afternoon. 2:30 oclock-Minutes. reports bv
presidents OF auxiliary state societies New
Ham nslf Am. l....l. IL.
Elizabeth b. Chace. Pennsylvania. Lucretis 4.
Blankenburg; Utah. sarah NJ. kimball; Ohio,
Caroline Mccullough Everhard; Oregon, Lydia
NJ. Hunt; Vermont, Lucinda A. Chandler, New
Amelia ID. Pope; Washington. A. H. n. Stuart
Evening. o'clock-Prayer. Music. Ad-
dress, The Worlds Congress of Representa-
tive Women" MAY Wright se~all. president
National Council OF Women. Indiana: address,
''Best Methods of Interesting Women an Suf-
frage." Ellen Battelle Dietrich. Mas.achusett-;
address, The Girl Of the Future" Ruth c. u.
Havens, District of Columbia; address. ''Our
Forgotten Foremothers," Lille DevereauN
Blake, New York.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY Is
Morning. 10 o'clock-Minutes. Report Of
committee on southern work. Laura Clay, Ken
lucky; southern women and suffrage, Ora Lang
horn, Virginia: effective work in the south. Mrs.
81. Hildreth, Alabama; migratory conventions
Kate Cunningham. Arkansas.
reports from presidents of auxiliary state so-
cieties-Arkansas, Clara A. McDiar mid. Georgia.
Claudia b. Howard; Louisiana. Caroline L
? Merrick; MARYLAND, Mary. Benty Thomas,
Missouri. Virginia Hedges: Tennessee. Lids
Merriweather; South Carolina. Virginia u.
Young; Nebraska, Clara B. Colby; Maine, Ham
nah j. Bailey.
Afternoon, $50 o'clock-Minutes, election Of
officers, report OF committee on resolutions and
discussion.
o
port, governors opinions on woman suffrage,
Mary II. Williams. District OF Columbia; ad-
dress, Companions Are Odious," Carrie Lane
Chapman, New York; address. Presidential
Woman Suffrage by Statute. ii. b. Black we'll.
Massachusetts,.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 10.
Morning. 10 o'clock-Minutes. Report Of
congressional committee. Susan b. Anthony.
New York; report Of territorial committee, Ada
NJ. Jarrett. Ch., New Mexico; report Of commit
tee on federal suffrage. Clara Bewick Colby,
Nebraska; discussion on federal suffrage, led BY
Sara Winthrop Smith, Connecticut
Afternoon. 2:S0 o'clock-Minutes; reports
from presidents Of auKii'sry state societie--
California, Laura Deforce Gordon; Colorado.
Louise NJ. Tyler; Connecticut, Isabella Beech
Hooker; District Of Columbia, Helen Rar
Tindall; South Dakota, Irene Adams; ulinol
Mary E. Holmes; Indiana, Helen NJ Cougar.
Iowa, Estelle I. Smith Report OF the Column
ban exposition committee, Rachel Foster
Avery, Oh, Pennsylvania Discussion.
Evening, o'clock-Prsyer; music; address,
women in Industry" Mr.. Carroll b. Wright.
District of Columbia; poem, The Waking
South" Henderson Daingerfeld, Virginia: sd.
dress, The Present Political status of Woman ;,
Harriet May Mills. New York; address, .Tbs
America Undiscovered by Columbia" Rev.
Anna Howard Shaw, Pennsylvania
FRIDAY. JASuARY 20.
Morning, 10 o'clock-Executive committee
meeting. (This meeting will be held At the
suffrage pariors, 1928 street) The District
association will tender . reception TO the Off
GERS of the National Americae Woman Suffr.g,
Association, delegates and visitors at Vino