The Washington times., 1913-08-13
JANE ADDANS URGES
NAT|ON-WI BALLOT
National Council of Women
Voters Adopts Resolution
Asking Franchise.

Passage of a resolution introduced by
Miss Jane Adams, of Chicago, calling
on the National Council Of Women oNt-
ers to concentrate its efforts on secur-
ing the passage of the equal suffrage
amendment to the Federal Constitution,
now before the Senate. was the most
significant action of that organization
which met at the Shoreham Hotel to-
dav being the first time all of the wo-
men voters OF the United States were
ever so represented.
Miss Adams. who is one Of eleven
representatives of the Illinois women
voters here for the council meetings,
arrived at 1925 this morning and went
at once to the Shoreham, where the
council was sitting behind closed doors.
While here she will be the guest OF
Miss Julia c. Lathrop, chief OF the
ChiId's Welfare Bureau, and her mos |
important public appearance VIII ne AZ
the Belasco Theater, where she VII pe
one of the speakers at the Suffrage
mass meeting Friday night
Text of Resolution.
Miss Adams resolution. which was
unanimously adopted after being sec
onded by DR.. Cora Smith King, reads:
whereas at the present time one
fifth of the Senate, One-seventh OF the
IIouse of Representatives and one-slHlh
Of the electoral votes come from equal
suffrage States, and
Whereas, more than one-thlFu oL 'iie
Senate. one-third of the House OF t'epL e
sap.a+ives and more than one-thIlu oi
the electoral votes come @ from tsT@a
suffrage States where legislatures Le naH We {
already submitted WoLlaI
amendment to the people; ana ,..;o,,
Wbareas as a result of TINS poA!Cat
s-renpth in Congress, due TO the iacS
1 O0O 900 of the women ol She @ a.
States are now enfranchlsed' theEe -
greaf hope of the passage in the he4t
future of the female suLl aSS
ment: therefore, be 1t -.,--, I-o,,,,or
Resolved. That the Nauonal CounCti H1
of Women Voters concentrate lIs
Sorts nnon the support of this amend
ment 1,,:
The first business question that came
bafore the council was the status Oh the
Illinois delegates, as that State only
allows women to vote on certain mat
ters, 1t was finally settled by agree
ing that the Illinois women present
could vote only on questions affecting
municipal affairs and the election Of
the president, but not on matters per-
tanning TO the election of members OF
Congress.
In calling tht council to order, Mrs.
Emma Smith DeNoe, the president,
made a brief address of welcome, in
which she advised the council to move
deliberately in whatever it did, and
to carefully eschew all partisan poll
tics until the ballot had been given to
every woman of voting age in the
and.
Tribute Paid Lucy Stone.
An added feature of the program this
morning was a brief tribute to Miss
Lucy Stone, pioneer woman educator
and lecturer, whose work more than
half a century ago blazed the way for
the successful march of the women
sufragists today.
AS this is the anniversary Of the birth
OF Miss Stone, Mrs. Belva A. Lock-
wood, Ii. D., delivered a brief eulogy
Of har, after which a picture of Miss
Stone which had been placed on the
platform, was decorated with the col
Ors of the suffrage States. A delegate
from each of the States represented IN
the council went forward and pinned a
knot of colored ribbons on the picture
till II was almost concealed beneath the
colOred tributes.
Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the Con-
gressional committee of National Wo-
man Suffrage Association, was the first
speaker at the conference this morning,
her topic being The History of Fed
eral Work for Woman Suffrage.
New Era Opens for Women.
She said that the first epoch In the
history of that movement in this coun-
try had just closed. having lasted for