The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-02-14
.SUFFRAGISTS
MAKE A PLEDGE
MEMBERSHIP MUST az norm
DURING THE COMING
YEAR
FORMAL RESOLUTION Is PASSED
Night Session Given Over to a De.
cldedly Interesting Symposium
by the Women of Adj
vanced Ideas.

WASHINGTON, Feb 13-When tha
American Woman's Suffrage convention
convened its second days session the re-
port Of Harriet Taylor Upton. treasurer
was then submitted, and showed tha
financial condition of the association to
be as follows:
receipts for the year were Sc, 58t: bal
ance. $3.50. Three requests were paid
Wltn1n the year, viz: Mrs Jonas Green.
OF Virginia, $780, DIR. Helen !. Under
wood, Of California, $1OO; Mrs. Charlotte
a. cleveland, Of Perry N Y 5000
new York contributed more money
IMAM any other state, giving $3.50, The
five states paying the largest dues ana
therefore having the largest societies
are Massachusetts, Iowa, Nebraska, New
YORK and Pennsylvania. The largest
percentage Of gain was made in Ken
lucky, where Miss Laura Clay Is pres
ident. The membership of the associa-
tlon has increased and the outlook for
future growth and development is most
encouraging.
Miss Anthony Has "a scheme.
Susan B. Anthony at this point stated
that she had a little scheme for getting
some money out Of Uncle Sam 1t was
that when Mrs. Gait speaks before the
committee of congress on Tuesday uP
next week that she should deliver a por
uon Of her annual address and then ask
Leave to print" BY this means, she
said, the government will print the en-
tire speech and it can be sent under gov
Union
Mrs. French, of Rhode Island gave
notice Of an amendment to the bylaws
providing that whenever TWENTY-FIVE
members of any state petition the exc
cutlVe committee that any question shall
be referred to the states for considera-
tlon such question Shall be SO referred
and if a majority of the states vote in
FAVOR Of the same it shall become law
Henry B. Blackwell, chairman of the
committee on presidential suffrage. lrg
ed every woman In every state to peti
ton their legislature asking for the right
to vote for presidential electors.
The afternoon session was devoted
mainly to addresses by the state pres
idents.
Mrs. Maud c. stockwell spoke for Min
nesota.
New Woman Symposium.
A crowd attended the night session,
AN evening with the new woman
"A Captivating Alliance" first paper,
by Mrs. Helen Adelaide Shaw. Of BOs-
ton. In the course of her remarks Mrs.
Shaw paid a hearty tribute to the civil
service record of President Roosevelt,
and In his connection she asserted that
he was with the woman suffragists in
their efforts to obtain the ballot for
women
Mrs Elizabeth Gimer Dorothy Dix,
of New Orleans, contributed a very in
teresting paper on 1.-The Lady and the
Quill" dealing with the relations Of
women to the newspapers.
A paper on pills in Politics." by DR..
Cora Smith Eaton, Of Minneapolis, was
the next read, and proved decidedly
spicy. She pleaded for women health
officers.
The decision Of the topic of From
Statues to Statutes gave Miss Gail
Laughlin, of New York, an opportunity
to speak of the work and possibilities
of women In the legal profession. To
obtain the full measure of success wom-
en-, she declared, must stand on her feet
clothed with the full right of sovereign
citizenship; success in the law must de-
pend upon the absolute oblteration of
sex prejudice.
The night session terminated. with a
talk by Rev Ida G. Hultin, Of Boston,
on the 'Need Of the Hour" This need,
she declared, was a change Of front, the
putting forward Of the great moral is
sues in place of the greed for gold.
VIII Double Membership.
AL an INFORMAL meeunS OF the mem
bers Of the National Womans Suffrage
Reform association held before tJ.c open
ing of the congress the condition Of the
organization and subject of woman suf-
frage was discussed. Mary G. Hay, who
presided, urged all to join clubs with
the idea Of sowing a little suffrage
seed" She declared that evolution might
bring suffrage, but it would be accom-
plished quicker if evolution were helped
along A number Of the delegates urged
increased activity in the matter Of men,
berships.
Mrs. Gait said she would be glad if a
resolution should be introduced in the
convention to double the membership
and thereby set everybody to work. Two
vars ago, Mrs. Gait explained after the
convention had adjourned a request was
sent throughout the nation to try to
double the membership, but some people
felt 1t did not receive the inspiration it
would have had had the convention in
dorsed It,
The members took action on the sug-
gestion and declared it to be the sense
Of the organization that all should join
in an effort to double the membership.