Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-21
APPEAL FOR SUFFRAGE
WOMEN TO PRESENT PETITION
TO CONGRESS.
President Taft to Welcome Mem
bers Of National Association.
Noted Speakers Scheduled.

President Taft is expected to deliver
an address at the forty-third annual con-
rention of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, which will be held
here in the Arlington Hotel, beginning
April IA, and continuing. President Taft
will welcome the association to Washing
ton, and ii will be the first time that
a President of the United States has APP
peared as a speaker at a woman SUI
rage association. There will be ad-
dresses by many other prominent orators.
Local members of the suffrage asso-
citation are making active preparations
for the national convention, which, 1t
is expected. will be the most successful
in the history of the association. They
have expressed satisfaction at the dis
tinguished list of speakers scheduled to
address the convention, and believe that
the forty-third convention will do much
toward placing before the country the
arguments advanced by those who be-
Iieve that women should share with men
the right of suffrage.
Annual Report to Be Made.
Mrs. Anna Howard Shaw. president of
the association, will make her annual
report the opening night. when she will
review the progress made by the suffra-
gists during the past year, and will
touch upon plans for future propaganda.
While the convention is in session a
petition with million signatures will
be presented to Congress, asking that
women throughout America be given the
right to vote. At the close of the con-
yention the judiciary committee of the
House will grant hearing to the dele
gates on a bill providing for a sixteenth
amendment to the Constitution, enfrari-
chising women.
Several well known suffragettes of Eng
land will attend the convention and de-
liver addresses in which they will re-
count the progress Of the movement of
votes for women" in England, and it is
expected that resolutions indorsing the
efforts of the English suffragists will .,e
adopted by the convention.
Open-Air Meetings.
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, the treas
urer. will conduct state president S
class, and Mrs. Harriet Stanton Batch
will conduct an open-air meeting in
which Mrs. Susan W. Fitzgerald of Bos-
ton, Mrs. Helen La Refine Baker of Seat
tie, the Misses Kengley, also Of Seattle,
who planted a votes for women banner
on the summit of Mount Rainier: Miss
Ray Costello of England and Miss Inez
Milholland of New York will participate.
MT. ana MIS- raymond ROBINS OR 1nl-
cago, Mrs Florence Kelley and others
who have studied industrial problems will
speak on Industrial day.
Among the speakers at the convention
will be Senator Robert L. Owen Of
Oklahoma, Prof. Frances Squire Potter.
corresponding secretary of the National
Woman Suffrage Association: Miss Alice
Pane, the American 'runger stocker',
Mrs Meta l.. Stern, associate editor of
the New York Volks Zeitung; Mrs. Kate
Trimble Wolsey Of Kentucky, author of
Republics Versus Women; Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, president of the Interna-
tional Woman Suffrage Alliance; Dorothy
Dix, Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, for the
Political Equality Association of New
York; Mrs. Henry Miller, for the Equal
Franchise Society of New York; Mrs.
Henry Wilbur, for the Friends Equal
Rights Association: Miss Juliet Stuart
Ponets. for the College Equal Suffrage
League; Mr.. Max Eastman. for the Mems
League for Women Suffrage. and Miss
Grace Strachan, known throughout the
country as the leader of the equal-pay
fight OF the New York school teachers.