The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-08-15
ILLINOIS women
/. LEAD FIGHT FOR
NATIONAL VOTE
Miss Addams and Colleagues to Ad-
dress Congressman Asking
Constitutional Amendment
WOMEN HAVE STRONG HOPE
FOR PASSAGE AMENDMENT,

Washington, Aug. 14-lllinols
played the most promising part to-
day in the first session of the confer
enee OF the members of the National
Council of Women Voters, the repre-
sentatiyes of 100000 in the United
States
The conference is to last three
days, and has for its object the pro-
mitigation Of plans 20 induce Con-
gress to pass the constitutional am
endment giving nationwide suffrage
to women. Tomorrow the most brill
liant and forceful speaker IN the sNf-
frage ranks will appear before the
House Committee on Rules.
The first session began at 1890
this mornink. At 1925 a train
came in from Chicago bearing Miss
Jane Addams, Miss May Mcdowell
and ten other delegates from Illinois
They were met by Miss Julia Lathrrp
of Chicago, chief of the Children S
Bureau Of the Department of Labor,
and taken in automobiles at once to
the conference, arriving there juss
as it was getting under way.
On behalf of the Illinois delegation
Mrs. Claudius t. Stone, wife of Rep
rcsentative Stone of Illinois, mace a
speech urging the admission OF tho
| Representatives OF the now suffrage
state to full membership In the coun-
ell
LAS for myself" said Mrs stone.
q want to play in the yard of the
| National Council of Women Voters,
because | consider it the choicest or
| ganization of women in the worla.
Illinois Women Enrolled.
Then Or. Cora Smith King of
Washington State introduced the fol-
lowing resolution:
RESOLVED, That the women Of
Illinois he invited into tho National
| 1ouncil of Women Voters, with all
advantages. of membership except
| that thcir voting PRIVILEGES be re-
tstgicted 10 those qucstioi to wntth
they are entitled to vote by right OF
franchise in The state Of Illinois,
The resolution was seconded by
delegates from Oregon, Colorado and
California, and it was passed imme-
dately by an unanimous rising vote.
| I'VE welcome you most heartily,
| Illinois" said Mrs Emma Smith De-
voc, pres dent of the National Coun-
ell, land we feel that we will gain
great strength thereby
Miss Adams then introduced a
resolution, the effect of which is to
confnc the effort Of the council to
the last Of its three objects, to secure
the further extension of women suf-
frage in the United States.
Chance Of Passage.
The resolution cited that onP-fifth
of the Senate, one-seycnth OF the
House and one-sixth of the electoral
vote come from equal suffrage states
and, as result there is great hopes
If the passage of the amendment
II was seconded by DR.. Cora Smith
Kink, and unanimously passed. Miss
Addams spoke briefly TO the resolu-
tion.
During the meeting Miss Addams
| was unanimously elected vice pres.
ident at large OF the National Coun-
lcil.
| Mrs. Jessie Hardey Stubbs of Chi
eago spoke on the national strength
of the suffrage movement today. To
morrow morning Miss Addams viii
speak before the rule committee ant
Friday night, at the most importan
meeting Of the series, Illinois viii
furnish three of the five speakers
Those viii be Miss Adams, Mis-
| Mary Mcdowell and Mrs. Stubbs.