The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-27

sonal nature. Notwithstanding the de-
fection from it's membership, the club
| seems to have been able to do business,
and proceedings of considerable interest
went on after the bolt. -
That there were two factions in the
club seems to be the most prominent
! fact brought out in the controversy.
This condition was especially empha-
sized in the fact that various versions
of the affair were reported, each coming
as ostensibly from the regular reporter
of the meeting. It has been customary
for the ladies to appoint regular critic
at each meeting, who transmits a copy
of the proceedings to each of the pa
pers, each papers report being iden-
| teal, but ON this occasion there were
several copies sent the newspapers,
each differing as to the details of the
! proceedings.
| That seven members resigned ait the
last meeting is conceded, but it is en-
phatically denied by one side that Mrs.
Coultef's s paper was the cause of them.
Three of the designations were from
members who were not present, and all
were made before the paper of Mrs
Coulter, except that of Mrs CorleW, who
reaigned near the close of the meeting.
Mrs. Patton and Miss Kimball walked
out after rendering their designations.
Mrs. Fletcher and Miss Smith werel the
ones not present Mrs. Marshall re-
signed not because OF anything per-
snnal in any of the papers, but because
sine is to reside in Salt Lake and did
not wish to be put on the programme
for work this year.
Mrs. Patton was vice president and
hen resignation from membership car
ried with 1T her resignation of the Of
fee Miss Kimball was secretary.
After these designations, Mrs. Kelly
was elected vice president, and Mrs.
Bent secretary. Mrs. Corlew had been
previously appointed reporter for the
seseion and remained until after Mrs.
Coulter's paper was read, when she re-
signed as a member. Later, Mrs. Bent
was appointed to furnish reports. for the
press, and possibly TINS accounts for the
difference in the reports, but this could
not be learned with certainty last might.
The election of the directors of the
public library some weeks ago figured
in the dispute, and on this subject few
of the ladies would be quoted but
friends of Mrs. Coulter claim that a
systematic effort was made at that
meeting to defeat her for reelection,
and that in one case at least a proxy
was given by a member to another, and
that later the one who gave the proxy
came to the meeting and voted herself
after the vote of her proxy had been
cast. 1t was claimed that such work
accomplished Mrs. Coulter's defeat
The ladys explanation was that she
did not know her proxy had been used
when she voted
This incident caused much u1lDleas-
antness, and figured largely in the club
meeting on Tuesday when the pentup
| trouble broke out. A number of ladies
We're interviewed, but most of them de-
clined to be quoted, though they talked
freely, with the understanding that
their remarks were simply for informa-
ton. 1t was noticeable that the lines
we're sharply drawn, the ladies taking
sides either for or against Mrs. Coulter.
Mrs. Marshall said: 'I did not take
anything Mrs. Coulter said as personal
to any club member, but simply as il
Illustrative of club members in general.
My resignation was simply because I
shall soon move to Salt Lake and wish
ed to prevent my name from being put
on the programme for the work of the
| next term. I have no particular inter-
est with either faction
Mrs. Fletcher said, with the concur
renee of her mother. Mrs. Smith, and
her sister, Miss Smith: 1--WE We're not
present at the meeting. but have heard