The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26
SUFFRAGE LEAGUE ADOPTS BYLAWS Third Meeting Held Yes terday in Chamber of
 Commerce

1 The Equal Suffrage association of Bir-
 bingham held it's third meeting yester- day afternoon in the directors room of the Chamber of Commerce to complete the details of organization by the adop- ton of bylaws and consider several mat ters concerning the future programme of the clubs work.
 The session was opened by the Pres ident Mrs. Solon Jacobs, presiding, and splendid representative of the member ship ir attendance.
 The first report submitted was that of the committee named to draw up the bylaws for the constitution and this was read by Clement Wood, member of the committee. This committee was com- posed of Mrs w.. l.. Murdoch chair man; Clement Wood, Miss Maud Kelley, Mrs Sidney Ullman and Mrs c. B. Spen- oer. The report fixed the dues as only of voluntary donations, the quorum of meeting necessary for legislation or other decisions to be made up of 14 members and an officer, the meetings to be held semi-monthly and at any other time that the president may deem fit to call one, the authorizing of the chair to name any committees that may be necessary to assist in the duties of the standing committees appointed after the election Of officers, and stating the name as Equal Suffrage association instead of Equal Suffrage league. This report was adopted.
 Owing to the inability of several of the members of the original membership com- mittee to serve, the president named the committee as follows: Mrs. T. D. Parke, Miss Amelia Worthington. Mrs. w. D. Nesbit, Mrs. c. B. Spencer Jr., and Mrs. Shell. This committee will received all the names of those persons who desire to become members or who wish to be put upon the mailing list of the associa- ton for literature concerning the suf- frage question.
 feature of the afternoon was the election of seven out of the state hon orary members, who have in some way directly expressed or taken an active in- terest in the Birmingham association. The honorary members which will embrace only those people residing outside of Alabama, elected yesterday were Miss Jane Addams, Miss Mary Johnston, Miss Elizabeth Johnston, who made the first equal suffrage addRss to the present or SdNlZdt1On, MISS Jean GoruOH, MfS. lI s. Marks Josephine Preston Peabody, Paul w. Kellog, editor of the Survey Mrs. J. Crozier French
 The equal suffrage pamphlets for the members of the association and their friends will be mailed from national headquarters at an early date. and the course of study, which will bear upon the legal status of women in Alabama, vii. be outlined by the executive com r-ittee, which includes the officers of the association, -at the next meeting.
 The next meeting will be held on De- comber 9, in the directors room of the Chamber of Commerce.
 Among the new members added to the roll yesterday were: pr. Samuel Ullman. Major Barter, divisional superintendent of the southern states of the Atlantic coast province of the Salvation Army; Mrs. H. Osborne Muller, Miss Mary Roth pletz, w. H. Kettig, J. D. Turner, Miss Olive Rasbury, E. c. Crawford Gray smith and G. H. Nesbit, chief mine in- srector of Alabama.