Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-16
Mss AyIHOyY IS aONORED
fislssrin WOmAn's Suffrage Given Tr,buts
BY Associates.
tisHN-SEcOED ANNIVERSARY OBSERVED
In RespOnding to warm words from
Her Comrades the Ased
worker Gives Way
TO Tears.

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WASHINGTON. Feb. 15.-Interest in the
National Suffrage association meeting to-
day was heightened BY the fact that it
marked the eighty-second birthday Of Su-
san B.. Anthony. She was the recipient OF
many congratulations and was f~eelingly re-
ferred TO In the invocation by Miss Laura
de Merritte. Many floral tributes also
were received by her.
The following message OF greeting from
the foreign delegates was received by her
and read from the PLATFORM.
We. the undersigned. foreign delegates
10 the first International Woman Suffrage
Sonierenee. gladly take the opportunity Of
you our love and reverence, our graft
tude for your life long work for women and
such great steps onward made by the
world at large in the direction in which
Praying that you may enjoy years of
health. cheereq BY everstresh advance. we
ssimsaP BY yoq Flo Ioyins Ft s5ispGs' M,i This E MAS
land: Sofia Levorne Friendland. Russia;
carolina Holman Huidobro; chile: Gudrum
tralia; Erma Ewald. Sweden; Antoinette
Stole, Germany.
New Plan of Work.
Mrs. Boyer OF Philadelphia presented a
plan OF work for the coming year. That
part OF 1t relating to taxation without rep
resentation caused considerable discus
sion. which developed the fact that in pay
ing the taxes a number Of the delegates
Insert In the tax certificates the words
paid under protest." A suggestion by the
president that all present who were tax
payers should rise. brought to their feet
over 200 women.
Other recommendations by the committee
were to appoint q special committee to
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qualified women as local organizers and
when such are found invite them to assist:
that a national column be published In
the Woman's Journal; that systematic work
be done to increase the circulation of
suffrage; that presidential suffrage be
urged and that there be a woman's suffrage
stamp, similar to that used In France
that prizes be offered for the best essays on
woman suffrage and that we continue our
plea for a sixteenth amendment respecting
woman suffrage"
To Record Suffrage History.
The committee also recommended that a
state historian be appointed to keep a rec
ord Of all information concerning woman
suffrage; that 1t be recommended that each
local suffrage association establish a circu-
lating library OF suffrage books. The rec
concentrations we're adopted unanimously.
The executive committee offered a resolu-
tlon, which was adopted, declaring that
state not regularly organized along repre-
sanitation lines or not holding annual meet
ings and elections. be regarded as unor-
ganized and open field for national organ
tiers.
In responding to the address of greeting
Of the delegates. Miss Anthony. with tears
In her eyes. referred to her fifty years OF
work In the cause of woman suffrage, say
ing she had consecrated her life to 1t. She
was unable to proceed further on account
of emotion.
Substitute for birthday Present.
Mrs. Gait then announced that II had been
the intention to give Miss Anthony a birth
day present, but knowing her aversion TO
attentions OF this kind, she said, II was
proposed to recognize her birthday by hav-
Ing the members pledge the sum of $1,000
for carrying on the campaign of woman
suffrage. The delegates responded with
surprising alac .ity and the announcement
that S5.102 had been subscribed was greeted
with vociferous applause.
The report OF the committee on resolu-
lions was then read. The report is:
l. The National Woman Suffrage associa-
tlon. at its first meeting OF the twentieth
century, in the capital city OF the United
states, renrirme the principles OF the
Declaration OF Independence and calls for
the application OF those principles In the
case OF women who are taxed without
representation and governed without con-
sent.
Rejoice In Progress I'm New York.
2 We rejoice in the granting Of suffrage
during the past year to 10000 women of
the state OF New York on questions OF
taxation and In the extension of municipal
suffrage to the tax paying women OF Nor
way. We recommend that the women tax
payers OF every state appeal TO their legis-
lators for suffrage in their own behalf.
3. We rejoice In the granting OF equal
guardianship and control of minor children
to both parents In Connecticut. the matter
OF married Women's property rights in a
pumber OF states. In the success OF the
Methodist women In securing the right to
be members of the general conference. in
the victory OF the Chicago women teachers
over the trusts and corporations OF Illinois
which have evaded taxation.
Protests Regulation of Vice.
4 We protest against the government
regulation OF vice in our new possessions
and we urge President Roosevelt. who has
been for years an outspoken opponent of
such regulations, to put an end 10 II.
no sex distinctions should be made in re-
slons.
6 We point with satisfaction to our four
equal suffrage states. containing more than
100000 American citizens. with eight
United States senators and nine congress-
men, who represent constituencies of