Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-30

Whitcher to withdraw, she not being
there to do it in person. The chair
ruled it out of order, as also the motion
to suspend the personal rights of Mrs.
Renisch and make her recording Sec
letary by compulsiOn. The chair sus-
tanned the personal rights of Mrs. Rem
isch. motion to compel Miss Slemons
as now made, but the personal rights
question having been decided the mo-
ton was out of order. A new ballot
was taken, but every name balloted for
refused to be voted on, except Mrs.
Whitcher, who. not being present to de-
fend herself was declared elected.
BY the time the corresponding secre-
tary was reached, it was 6 O'Clock. The
proxies were lying in the chairs, most
o the women having gone home to
dinner. Mrs. Atwater seized a handful
of proxies from chair and voted them
fer Miss TURNKEY and she was declared
elected.
AS everybody wanted Mrs. Shatzlein
and Mrs. Heidrick to keep their re-
spective offices, and had been pleading
with them for two weeks to consent to
serve another year, a belated woman
who had not succeeded in getting away,
lnCved to elect them both together by
reclamation, but it was not constitu-
t'onal, and Mrs. Atwater again voted
her handful of proxies and Mrs. Sha;z-
len and Mrs. Heidrick We're elected.
Mrs. Hamilton had gone home to her
dinner. so she was easily elected chair
man of the membership committee.
Mrs. Holbrook being in Oregon, she was
declared elected chairman of the pro-
cramme committee. Mrs. Donelly look
a.. about to see who could be kidnapped
for auditor, and seeing that Mrs Sol
buckles was not there to defend her
self. picked up handful of proxies
from the floor and voted them for her,
and Mrs. Buckles was declared elected.
! BY this time it was $50 Of the clock.
Everybody who could get out of the
loom was gone. Fortunately the door
| Lad in some way got locked. and this
accident insured the presence of a few
hungry women to hear the gavel come
, Down for adjournment.
The utmost good humor prevailed
"he only difficulty was. that there were
not absentees enough to fill all the Off
c,s, for most of the proxies had some
che there TO object" when her name
was balloted on.
This was the most unmanly part OF
the performance. To keep in a good
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against their will. and TO lind everyone
Striving to give the post of honor to
someone else is truly UtOpian condi-
linn. and not at all as men would have
it,. This is the way women do things
when they are trying to be like nen.
The recording secretary pronounces
The above to be Il pipe dream, and that
lille the leading statements are sub
stanta'ly true. some OF the trimmings
are out Of season. She affirms that the
election was regular and, that while
mes, of the members did get hungry
and leave. they left their proxies with
friends. and that the whole were legally
voted to the last.
Result of the electlOn:
President. Mrs. 4. II. Wethey.
First vice president. Mrs. +. w. Buzzo
Second vice president. Mrs. Green
Majors.
Recording secretary. Mrs. A.. H
Whitcher.
Corresponding secretary. Miss c. l.
Turnkey
Financial secretary. Mrs. c. ]. schatz-
i"in.
Treasurer. Mrs. II. p. Heidrick.