Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-04
POLITICAL SKY CLEAR As CRYSTAL
President and Other Leading Officers Are
Already Virtually Decided On,
NEBRASKA COMPROMISE PLAN IS POPULAR
CIubwomen Put in Busy Day, Ac-
compiIshIng vast Amount of Work,
aud VIII welcome Diver
sion Afforded Today.
cFrom a staT Correspondent

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night indicate that the color question and
reorganization are already adjusted.
message received from James B. Dill of
! New York shows that the New Jersey char
| ter which still govern the General Fedora
| tion, was obtained under the philanthropic |
| and charitable act, instead Of clubs and
| societies act and under the act Of corpora
! tion the duties of the General Federation
are to support members in old age as when
| they become INDECENT widows and to dis
| courage intemperance. 1t further empowers
the organization to provide decent burial
! Of deceased members or widows OF future
/ deceased men members. also to establish
| Sunday schools of a charitable nature and
encourage industry.
The charter precludes reorganization that
excludes individue. clubs or colored clubs
now represented, but admits of future ex-
! clusion of colored clubs. This department
seems to reduce the General Federation to
| the ranks of the aid society, but the few
| who have been apprised of the facts tail
| entirely to the joke.
In the meantime the middle west dele
cations are pushing their substitute to the
compromise plan while Massachusetts seems
more sympathetic toward the southern
states, which occasions hope for an amicable
adjustment of differences Of these sections
in any event.
At meeting of the Nebraska delegation
this evening memorial resolutions were
drafted on the death of Mrs. L. L. Rickett
Of Lincoln late General Federation secre-
tary. The delegation is divided on the
substitute to the compromise.
Ready for a Recess.
After seven sessions today the club
women are prepared for a recess-not
1Aw.,w an
excursion to Mount Lowe. dissenting sis
ters Notwithstanding There is also to be
a garden party in honor of visiting press
women. which some OF the club women
frown upon, but which promises to be
large and representative gathering OF
writer's.
To offset this frivolity several pulpits will
be occupied by delegates. At the First
Presbyterian church Mrs. May Alden Ward
is to speak on Voices Of Today" while
at the First Methodist church the general
theme of "The Modern Ishmael' will be
presented by Mrs. Robert Burdette OF Pasa-
dena, prospective vice president; Mrs. Gym
thia Westover Alden of New York, presi-
dent Of the International Sunshine society.
and Mrs. Florence Kelly Of New York, pro-
moter Of consumers leagues
Two Knots to Unite.
) There are two tight knots that will have
to be united before the convention Monday
| morning, when the committee on organiza-
tion reports. we'll known parliament
tartan, Mrs. Lee, who supports the individ-
ual club, points out that any plan pro-
} viding only for the representation OF state
federations will be illegal.
Under the guise OF amendment" said
Mrs. Lee, you cannot rob members OF an
organization of their vested rights. In
this case 1t would not be simple readjust-
ment, as some say, and the many CLUBS
: which are members Of the General Fedora
tion. but not OF the state. would by the
proposed amendment be thrown out"
This is the point Mrs. Lee will raise
Monday, printed slips having been dis
I tributed among the delegates.
Mrs. Mary Lockwood OF Washington who
was appointed at the last biennial to Sc
cure a new charter from congress, will
report.
} Must Go to Washington.
: II is thought that this convention will
be able to act under the new charter which
c has been secured, but 1t has been ascer-
5 | tained that even IL the convention ap-
proves it, it will be necessary for the fifty
e incorporators, or at least a majority OF
: them, to travel to Washington from various
l parts OF the south to hold a meeting and
vote the rest OF the body in. Not until
, this is done will the new charter be legally
accepted.
The literature session is always a star
affair and the one which came on this
evening under Mrs. May Alden Ward OF
, Boston was no exception.
d The entertainers were Mrs. Jessie Ell
n bridge suthwick of Boston. the Shake
e spearean reader; Mrs. Mabel Moomis Todd
l. of Amherst, Mass, the writer and wife OF
r the astronomer, and Mr.. John Fox, jr., OF
a Kentucky, OF Hell for Sartin" fame,
Reciprocity Bureau Idea.
: Probably the most practical feature OF
the four afternoon sessions was the reel
r procity bureau idea, as brought out by
4 Mrs. Philip Moore. chairman Of the reel
a procity session. Mrs Moore was appointed
; by the national board to head COMMITTEES
A ! which should devise some means Of cen
? | tralizing the various reciprocity committees
= and this conference was for that purpose.
q The first art session, under Mrs. Ella
A Brockway OF Brooklyn. followed, with Mrs
4 Herman T. Hall of Chicago, president OF
A the Woman's Auxiliary Of the American
n Park and Outdoor Art association, as q
= speaker on outdoor improvement for home
and school.
n In this connection it is interesting to
h know that she has a Photographic exhibit
at the Westminster hotel showing what
n has been done along these lines.
Mrs. Hall said in part:
s a potent influence in encouraging garden,
: ing In a community IL the establishment Of
a series OF prizes, as was done In chicago
last season.
y Plant only native hardy grOwths. Do moi
. let your heads be turned by the tropica
ioveiiness OF California and attempt exotics
in out-of-door work In the eastern and
middle states, where they would be al
1 .FrT Of ula a. NnTWaW
D The borders OF the Red sea
. Away with every dead tree and plant IN
Wise surely is the man who studies tbs