Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-02-18
OLD OFFICERS REELECTED
Business Meeting of Suffrage COnven-
tiOn HeId-speeches on Women
of Other Nations.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 17.-Interest in to-
days session Of the National American
Woman Suffrage association attached prin-
cipally to the election OF officers for the
ensuing year, which resulted as follows:
President, Carrie Chapman Gait OF New
York; honorary presidents, Elizabeth Cady
Stanton OF New York, Susan b. Anthony Of
Rochester, N. Y; vice president-st-large.
Rev Anna II. Shaw Of Philadelphia; cor
responding secretary, Kate NJ. Gordon OF
New York; recording secretary, Alice s.
Blackwell OF Boston; treasurer, Harriet
Taylor Upton OF Warren, o.; auditors,
Laura Clay Of Lexington. KY, and Mrs.
Mary J. Coggeshall of Des Moines. Ia.
Except in the case OF second auditor. DR..
"a Smith Eaton declining a reelection,
h Il the old ofncers we're reelected. While
the ballots were being counted former
United States Senator H. w. Blair deliv-
| cred a short address.
At the afternoon session Mrs. Mariana W.
Chapman Of New York read a brief report
on the work Of the Friends Equal Rights
association, which recently has been recog-
nized as an auxiliary Of the present con-
| ven.lon.
Madame Sofia Frledland Of Russia deliv-
cred an interesting address on Women in
Russia" The remainder of the afternoon
session was devoted to international reports
from Spanish American countries.
Women in Venezuela" was the subject
OF paper by Mrs. Jose Raphael Ricart ot
Caracas, read by Harriet Taylor Upton
Senorita Carolina Huidobro OF Chill spoke
on Women in South American Republics, >
with particular reference to Mexico, Chilli
Argentine and Paraguay.
| She vvop,ou of
are apathetic in all political matters, but Il
they could be made to believe that woman
suffrage would mean a cessation Of the in
ternal wars and international entangle
ments they would be quick to take It up.
Tonight's session Of the convention wa
devoted 70 the general subject Of an even
ing with foreign guests and addresses wer,
delivered by Mrs. Emmye Evald of Sweden
Senortta Carolina Huidobro, representinj
Chill; Miss Florence Fensham, dean of tn
American College for Girls in CONSTANT
nople, and Fraulein Atolle, representinj
Germany.
Mrs. Evald said that Sweden was the frs
country of the world that gave its women
municipal privilege, granted in 1876, L
taxpaying women AS foreigner she wishe
to object to the wholesale condemnatio
OF foreigners and to the assertion that al
that goes wrong in America is due to tn
foreign element
THE women OF Chilli" said Senorit
Huidobro. have every advantage for ad
vancement and self-culture and many hay
improved their opportunities. They have
very strict sense of justice and are in
tensely patriotic. The women of Chilli as
whole are far ahead of any women of an
other country In South America and in thi
they are aided by the liberal view the me
are beginning to hold regarding the statu
of American women"
Miss Fensham declared that the women
Turkey have enormous power. She said tn
general impression that Turkish women az
shut up behind the latticed windows Of IN
harem and have little chance to 20 abo-
! the city is far from correct. Poiygamy
| fast giving way, not from moral conyictio
on the part of the Turks, but because ,
their lack of means to support lars
families, the Turkish wives OF this genert
tion declining to live together under Ii
same roof