The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-04-06
State Federation Meeting in Mobile

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Mobile, April 5.-(special )-There seemed
a possibility at one of the sessions OF the
convention of the delegates from the Wom-
ans club of Birmingham being den ed the
privilege of the floor. The Woman's clup Is
the first department club to apply for MEM
bership in the state federation. Its admit
ance according to the present constitution
of the federation entities a larger represent
tat:on than any other club in the state.
The executive board of the federation at
Its first meeting on Tuesday admitted the
womans club to the federation, and SUBJ
sequently the chairman OF the credenual
committee read her reports before the fed
Grafton, which was accepted. The reports
included the names of delegates of the
Woman's club. The matter of the basis
of representation for the Womans club
was taken up, but pending decisive ac-
ton, the convention adjourned.
The president of the federation brought
the matter forward at the next session.
Mrs. Chapel cory, of Montgomery. moved
that the Woman's club be admitted to MEM
bership on the present basis of representa-
ton for this convention.
Mrs l.. Crozier French, of Birmingham,
director of the Womans club, maae an
argument on parliamentary procedure. Tine
Momans cub OF Birmingham, she SAID,
Was already auinltted TO tile federation, and
motion 10 that effect was out OF order.
Inc creuential committee cUnnrIneu the az
ton Oh Ine executive board, anu Inc laoles
or the W woman club were duiy Accredited
delegates. one spoke Tor severaI minutes
on the necessity OF governing conventions
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Craignead acknowledged that an error
haa made in allowing the acceptance
OF the report of the credential committee
and in Incorporating the names of the
delegates until the convention had
reached a conclusion in regard to the
basis of representation of the Womans
club.
Miss Willie Allen, of Birmingham, moved
a substitute motion that the Alabama fed
GRAFTON join the Womans club Mrs.
French said motion to reconsider the ac-
ton by which the report had been adopted
was necessary. A motion was made to re-
consider the action and the president then
declared that Mrs. Corys motion was out
of order The motion to reconsider was
adopted.
Inc delegates from the Womans club
withdrew by permission and held caucus
There were some who favored not joining
the federation even in the event of being
admitted.
The motion to reconsider brought out
considerable discussion, but a call for the
previous question resulted in the Woman's
club being admitted on the present basis
OF representation for this convention by 81
votes to 70. The delegates from the Wo-
mans club were informed of the decision,
and returned to the assembly room.
The exciting contest which has been car
ried on in the convention today over the
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monthly periodical published in Montgom-
cry and the New Era" published weekly
in Birmingham, resulted in vote of forty
seven for and tifty-one against consolida-
ton.
There is great Indignation among the
friends of the New Era over the partialilty
In parliamentary rulings, exhibited by Mrs
Cralghead, the state president, and the
unprecedented act on her part in calling to
the chair Mrs William B. Love- of Atlanta.
the president of the National Fedora ton of
"omans clubs. This act appears all the
more inexcusable on Mrs. Craighead's part
as she completely ignored Mrs. L. J. Haley,
OF birmingham, the first vice-president of
the Alabama Federation, who was sitting
on the platform at the time
Mrs. Lowe addressed the convention to-
night.
morning.
One of the most important reports made
II the federation was that of the reforma-
-ory committee. The report was made by
-he chairman, Mrs. r. D. Johnston, of Biz
The Mobile Register, In this
mornings issue, says of Mrs. Johnston and
ner report:
She had not been speaking many minutes
before every wave of her hand, every in
sonatfon Of her voice and every movement
OF her countenance gave evidence that she
was heart and soul in the work which she
had undertaken at the behest of the fedcr-
ation-the establishment Of q reformatory
for the boys of Alabama.
She began her report by saying that last
year at Selma when the women of the
federation gave her the commission and
but their arms about her neck and babe her
Godspeed in the work, she was a supremely
happy woman for about three days. These
were three days of unalieyed bliss for her,
but at the expiration Of those three days.
when she began to think within herself
how she was to start to get what the feder-
alton had commissioned her to get all her
bliss departed forthwith and then there
followed many unhappy months. She be-
gan the work without money, without even
a postage stamp, and while she was cogi-
tating for an opening some lady asked her
to be member of a committee, and she
told her that she had no time to belong to
any other committee, that she was now
engaged In trying to save the boys, IL she
only knew how to do it. The lady said that
II she desired to save boys all she had to
do to learn was to go to an industrial
institution for boys in Tennessee, near
Nashville, and she would learn all about
it. She had no money, SO her friend volun-
teered to get free pass for her, and she
went forth to see and to learn. She said
that 1t gave her more pleasure to see that
institution and those boys and how they
were managed and made into useful citi-
zens than anything she had seen in years.
She said that it had been started by some
man who had a Maynard son who killed
himself in a drunken spree. The father
straightway divided his property into three
parts, and set aside his own and that of his
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