Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-09

vention will be formally opened at 10
o'clock, when routine work will be carried
on. In the afternoon short addresses by
the presidents of several of the state as
sociations will be delivered. In the evening
at o'clock Miss Anthony, president of
the association. will deliver her annual adj
dress. There will be number of addresses
by others. Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock
a hearing will be had before the Senate
committee on woman's suffrage in the
marble room. Addresses will be made by
William Lloyd Garrison and Miss Elizabeth
b. Curtis. At the same time there will be
a hearing before the judiciary committee
in the House.
Delegates to Inc convention will wear a
unique badge. This shows an American
flag. the four stars in a blue field. These
stars represent the states of Wyoming,
Colorado, Idaho and Utah, they having al
ready extended suffrage to women. Sou
venirs will consist of miniatures of Miss
Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy
Stone and Lucretia Mott.
The Program.
The program for the convention, from
Tuesday on, follows:
Tuesday morning, congressional hearing.
Tuesday afternoon, work conference.
Tuesday evening, Women in Education,
May Wright Sewall, Indiana; THE New
Education" Grace Epsy Patton Colorado:
"A Glimpse of the Past and Present. Caro-
line Hallowell Miller, Maryland; Social
Changes in the South Belle Kearney, Mis-
sissippi roll call of the years, beginning
with 1913. Each year will be called and
responses by name and sentiment will be
made by pioneers, and by name only by the
younger workers.
Wednesday morning, report of committee
on press work, by Jessie ]. Cassidy, chair
man; report of headquarters work, Carrie
Chapman Gait; report of treasurer Har-
riett Taylor Upton: report of committee on
organization, Carrie Chapman Gait. We'd
nesday afternoon. memorial hour; consid-
GRAFTON of resolutions offered by Clara Be
wick Colby; report of committee on plan of
work. Mariana w. Chapman. Wednesday
evening. Marriage in the Light of Wo-
mans Freedom" Clara Neymann, New
York; Fifty Years in Medicine DIR. Clara
Marshall. Pennsylvania: THE Ministry of
Religion a Calling for Women Rev.
Florence Buck, Ohio; vocal solo, Sophia
Church Hall: Women in the Legal Pro-
fession. Ella Knowles Haskell, Montana
Thursday morning, report of committee
on federal suffrage, Sarah Clay Bennett,
chairman; report of committee on legisla-
ton, Lille DevereuX Blake; report of COM
mittee Oh resolutions. Thursday afternoon
work conference. Thursday evening, "Wo-
men in the Departmental Service of the
United States" August W. Machen, WASH
ington; The Progress of Cookery" Emma
p Ewing, New York: vocal solo, Guelma
Baker: The Civil Rights of Women Rev.
Frederic A. Hinckley, Pennsylvania; THE
economic Status OF Women, Catharine
Waugh McCulloch, Illinois.
Friday morning, report of committee on
presidential suffrage, Henry B. Blackwell;
report of committee on Tennessee EXPOSE
ton, Laura Clay: report of committee on
credentials. election of officers reception of
invitations for thirty-first annual conven-
ton. Friday afternoon short addresses by
the state presidents of Kentucky, Louisiana,
Maine Maryland. Massachusetts. Michigan,
Minnesota. Mississippi, Missouri and Ne
hr1S l.l a,,'s.
Its Influence Upon the World Matilda
Joslyn Gage, Illinois: THE Relation of the
n. A w. S. A. to the National Council of
Women" May Wright Sewall. Friday
evening, United States Citizenship" Isa-
bella Beecher Hooker, Connecticut; THE
Progress of Colored Women" Mary Church
Terrell, Washington; THE Norsk Kvindes-
temmertsforening," Elizabeth LANCE Aus,
Norway.
Sunday afternoon, the 18th instant at 3
O'Clock, there will be a religious service at
the Columbia Theater, under the auspices
of the association. Rev. Anna Howard
Shaw will preach at this service.
Soldier Clerks and Their Pensions.
To the Editor of The Evening Star:
1 think you can assure my comrades that
there is no occasion for worry; that the
proposed measure to deprive all federal
Office holders receiving an annual salary
of $1,000 or upward, which would include
the departmental clerks, will not become
a law.
If it were possible for such a measure to
be passed by Congress, President Mckinley
would then have something to say about it,
and can any one believe that he, a COM
rade, would approve such a bill? Living
here in Washington, we understand that
$4,000 per annum, even with free house
and stable rent and other small emolu-
and is really insufficient, not enabling him
to save anything for the future. But to
the average soldier, in his poverty and
distress, 1t is fabulous sum, and they
would loHthe the recipient of it who or
dained that petty pensions should be con-
fscated (and pensions average less than
s12 per month, while their years average
full sixty, in order that his salary and
the salary of congressman and other high
officials should be undisturbed.
There are over million survivors of the
late war, and back of them more than a
million voting relatives, ana those who
compose this mighty host rightfully think
they have some part in the management
of governmental affairs, and they mean to
have a considerable part in the selection of
men to run this government. The average
congressman fully understands this, ard
he will not vote for the proposed bill That
bill would not save s1,0O0.0O0 year, while
5000 to 1900 would save half that sum,
and the honorable NJ. C. would be speech
less when one of his soldier constituents,
reminding him that the government now
pays his desk hire, should ask him why he
did not 'divvy'' with the poor veteran, and
vote for the reduction of his own salary.
There are many pensioners now in Office
receiving pensions ranging from 500 to $40
per month, and the absence Of limbs shows
why they are pensioned. Crippled for life,
having full faith in the government that
their pensions were for life, they have been
struggling to pay for homes. Let that bill
pass and fully 500 houses will be thrown
upon the Washington market. Some of
those pensioners. by accepting reduction to
the 81, 900 class, would save their pensions.
There are many soldiers widows whose
faithful services have lifted them into the
81 200 class upward. To strike down the
pensions of the widows of Vicksburg and
Gettysburg would be a sorry spectacle.
There are no. 4 few ex-confederate SOL
dfers and widows receiving salaries of
loo or upward. Themselves undisturbed,
they will chuckle or wonder whether the
sons. of such parents would be eager to go
TITO the ranks to save an endangered coun-
try. as their fathers did.
The bill says. in substance, to all SOL
diers who desire public positions: Seek
humble and mental positions; be servants,
laborers, watchmen, messengers and you
Will not be disturbed, but aspire higher
and we will tear from you your pensions"