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| committees in charge of the arrangements
for the day objected strongly to women
| taking any share in the celebration beyond
buttering sandwiches ana filing bags with
popcorn for the children. In tine end, how
| ever. the women won the day, and among
| the speakers invited to address the I'M
menSe concourse Miss Shaw herself.
Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw rode in a
| fower-decked carriage Immediately behind
| that of the mayor, while Miss Shaw was
! decorated with badge quite as big as that
In conclusion, Miss Shaw said that the
prospect of the suffrage movement in Cali
fornia is particularly bright. She announc-
ed that she intended to go to California
again this spring to take an active part in
the campaign for the wished-for amend
ment.
will the amendment be carried?' asked
Miss Shaw. 1t will if we can get enough
votes, ard that is just what we are going
out to accomplish
The Woman's Bible.
In the absence of Mrs. Rachel Foster
Avery, her report as recording secretary of
the association was read by Isabel Rowland,
| the recording secretary Of the New York
| state association. 1t Cccasioned a pretty
lively debate. especially that part of it
which referred to the so-called Woman's
Bible In the course OF her report Mrs.
Avery said:
THE ccess of our cause in Utah dem
onstrates clearly the advisa bility of Sc
curing the aid OF political parties, through
planks in their respective platforms. This
having been seen by the women of Utah,
they did not wait to do their work after
everything had been decided by the party
leaders, as has too often been the case in
states where We have had state amendment
campaigns With non-partiSan impartiaIity
they secured from republican, democratic
ana popufSt parties the assurance of the
support of the rank and file of their mem
bers to constitution containing a guaran-
N emf for BIO
OF their commonwealth, after which effort
on the women's part they could well sit by
, and Serenely watch the course of events
with the assurance that their enfranchise-
ment was won. We now have six Senators
and REPRESENTATIVES from three states on
tie floor of Congress, all of whom stand
there with an ever-present sense that an
important part of their constituents are
OF the female sex.
"A pleasant sign of the growth of public
sentiment In favor of woman suffrage was
the magnificent reception accorded to our
president, Susan B. Anthony and our vice
president-at-large, Rev. Anna H. Shaw. in
California last spring, when they went there
| as delegates to the Pacific Coast Woman's
Congress Association. This body of women
is far from being a suffrage meeting yet
they seated Miss Anthony in chair made
entirely of flowers, listered with rapt atten-
Ton to her every word throughout their
Week's deliberations upon The Home and
could not do or say enough in honor and
praise of Rev. Anna Shaw for going out TO
them and aiding in their councils with her
magnificent gift of ora tory. They secured
an invitation for Miss Shaw to speak at the
great Fourth of July celebration in San
francisco and in every way showed their
nigh appreciation of these two leaders in
cur work After the Woman's congress Miss
Anthony and Rev. Shaw made what was
truly "a triumphal march from one end IF
the state to the other. and finally returned
east with innumerable invitations untitled
ana with promises to return to the golden
gate at no distant date.
During the latter part of the year the
work has been In several directions much
findered by the general misconception of
tie relation of the so-called 'Woman's Bible
to our association. AS an organization we
rave been held responsible for the action Of
an individual Gan action which many of orr
members, far from sympathizing with, feel
10 be unwise). i'll issuing volume with
pretentlous title covering tumble of COM
ment mot translation, as the title would in
dlcate), without either scholarship or liter
airy value, set forth in a spirit which ia
neither reverent nor inqriring If the or
Eanfzaton were not If 50 many quarters
held responsible for this work, I should
feel 1t out OF place to mention it here, but
l should be untrue to my duties as secre-
tary OF this association Gid fail to report
the fact that our work is being damaged.
ana recommend that we take some action
by resolution to show that tie assocjat ion 10
not responsible for the individual actions of
any of its officers when acting unoficially
and as an individual simply"
Lively Discussion.
In order to properly bring the matter
before the meeting, Mrs. c. B. Colby Of this
city moved the adoption CT the report with
the exception of that part which refers to
the Womer's Bible
This launched discussion rather livelier
than is usual in suffrage convention.
Mrs. Lille Devereux Flake championed
the cause of Mrs. Stanton's book in a yerv
earnest speech. in which she said that
much. Of tie criticism of the Woman's Bible
arose from the densest ignorance.
Now, for example," said Mrs Blake
lets see how much we know about it, Let
every woman who has read the book hold
up her right hand"
Eight hands in all went up
I'VE are a nice body to pass criticism on
matter OF this sort, now, aren't WEI" said
Mrs. Blake in a caust tic manner
Several brief adore sses We're made from
the floor IN which the book was handled
pretty rough
Mrs Upton moved that the whole report
be lai0 upon the table.
Miss Anthony, always ready to pour Oil
on troubled waters, said that il the asso-
citation should take to criticising and re-
pudiating the Views of If dividuaI members
1t would have very little time left to do
anything else.
Scarcely a day goes ty,' she said, 'but
l see something in books or newspapers
written or said by members of this associa-
ton that consider injudicious. and 1 am
of you don't like. But let's not stop to find
fault now
The Report Tabled.
On rising vote the motion to table the
whole report was carried-59 to 16. The
morning session then adjourned at 1880
o'clock
Convention Notes.
Miss Anthony is here, red shawl and ALL
1t doesn't look as bright as it used to, and
perhaps 1t has mellowed with age, but it is
the same red shawl that covered Miss An
thongs shoulders when they were twenty
years younger, and she filings it around
her with all the grace of Spanish seno-
rita.
Parliamentary rules are something that
women simply will not be bound by, and
even so good a parliamentarian as Miss
Anthony let the women of the convention
debate motion to table a part of the re-
cording secretary's report for fifteen min
ates this morning.
Four courageous men ventured into
the convention, and one of them sat with
the delegation from Montana. When the
storm broke over the condemnation of the
sc-called 'Womans Bible" he evidently
thought of the riot in the Daughters of
the Revolution convention in New York,
and rnnvad tn adjourn b,1f fhay f9i1p,t pax,