The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-24
SUFFRAGE LEAGUE
DELEGATES RETURN.
Many Able Addresses Heard at
National Convention in
Washington.
PETITIONS IN CONGRESS S
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DR.. Shaw, New President, to Be
at University OF Virginia
Tomorrow.
PETITIONS IN CONGRESS S

The Richmond delegation attending
the forty-second annual convention Of
the National American Woman Suf-
fragc Association in Washington has
returned home and It's members are
now discussing the experiences of the
first convention in which suffra ge
league from Virginia has been repre-
scented.
The personality of prominent women
connected officially and by membership
with the National Suffrage Associa-
ton invested the assembled body with
dignity that made an instant inl-
preston on all delegates and visitors.
Representatives from auxiliary organ
izations, which included the College
Equal Suffrage League. Friends Equal
Rights Association and the Equal
Franchise Society. of New York City,
were present. Addresses on industrial
problems affecting women and chill
dren, on Legislation for civil rights. on
church work, on peace and arbitration.
on libraries and education, during the
course of the convention developed
different phases of suffraglst work and
demonstrated lines of past, present
and future effort and achievement.
Some Special Addresses.
Executive committee meetings We'd
nesday evening, April l3. and Thurs
day morning, April IA, preceded the
formal opening of the convention
Thursday afternoon by the president,
! DR. Anna Howard Shaw. The welcome
to the association on the. part of Dis
! trict of Columbia suffragists was re-
i sponded to- and then Mrs. Mary 4.
| Craigie, chairman of the committee on
| church work made an excellent re-
! port AT her invitation, pastors of
| different Washington churches opened
/ the convention sessions with prayer
| and delivered informal addresses Of
| commentator and announcement TO
= convention workers.
| Many distinguished speakers includ-
/ ed Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait, presi-
! dent of the International Suffrage AL
/ lance: Dr. Anna II. Shaw. Senator Ro-
| bert L.. owen, of Oklahoma. Henry
4 NNtlber, of the Friends Equal Rights
| Associations; Max Eastman. of the
| Voters League. New York City: Fran
ces Squire Potter of New York; Ray
Castelloe, of England; Kate Trimblt
woolsey. of Kentucky: Alice Paul. OF
/ Mor.istown, ~ Y; Florence Kelley
\ Inez Mlholland and Mrs. Meta Stern
of New York City: Alice Duer Miller, OF
the Equal Franchise Society; Beatrice
Forbes Robertson, sister of Forbes
Robertson. the English Actor; Harrie
r Grim. of Chicago University; Dor
othy Dix, Laura Clay, of Kentucky
and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, thu
we'll known magazine writer and per
woman. This partial list has name:
: hot
with many lines of activity in the
professional. political. educational anc
literary world.
Social Events.
The busy round of convention work
} and purpose was PLEASANTLY broken lne
to bv an informal evening reception
for delegates and visitors In the par
lors of the Arlington Hotel and
another, given Monday afternoon,
April 1s by Mrs. Albert Clifford Bar
ncy, at her home, 23o6 Massachusetts
, Avenue, n. W.
The petition asking Congress to
grant the right of franchise to wo-
men was presented in the Senate and
the House of Representatives on Mon
day. Miss Mary Johnston. of Richmond
delegate from the Equal Suffrage
League of Virginia, and Mrs. Lila
Meade Valentine, president of the
league, presented the Virginia petition
through the State representatives.
DR.. shaw Addresses Senator's.
DR.. Anna H. Shaw conducted the
! hearing before the Womans Suffrage
Committee of the United States Senate
, on Tuesday morning, April 49, Ad-
dresses then were based on behalf Of
educational and professional lines O.
women's work. Miss Florence Kel
ley, of New York, had charge of tn,
hearing before the Committee of thu
judiciary in the House of Represen
tatives. which presented the industrial
2 demand for the acknowledgements o
women.
3 The final executive committee meet
. ing followed the hearing, and tool
) place in the auditorium of the Airing
E ton Hotel at 2.30 p. NJ of the sam
!, day DR.. Shaw, the newly re-electe
president of the association. left i'm
/ mediately after the close Of the con
! vention for Mississippi, and returning
, will be at the University of Virgini
by DR.. Aldermans invitation to-mor
row. She is accompanied on her South
ern trip by Miss Ray Costelloe. o
England.
Richmond women who attended TIL
convention were Mrs. B, B. Valentine
Miss Mary Johnston, Mrs. Clarence
CABOT. Miss Adele Clark Mrs. A. NJ
Tyler, Mrs. George Barksdale, Mis-
Eloise Johnston, Mrs. Everett, Mis-
! Coralie Johnston, Mrs, Charles v
Meredith. Miss Elizabeth Johnston
Mrs, John 3. Kidd, Mrs, Tyler Jobso
and Miss Jobson. Virginia was en-
titled to one delegate-Miss Mar.
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