Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-11-30
SuFFRAGETTES
 IN WASHINGTON Leaders In Women Vote" Movement Gather At
 Convention
REVIEW SUCCESSES
Proposed New Constitution Is Ont lined Illinois Women Con.
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1 leaders of The United States today l opened rousias campaign for Con- gressional recognition as they gather- ed here for the forty-fifth annua con- Vention of the National American 1 Woman's Suffrage Association The great climax of the colven- ton will como next Friday when lair 1 representatives of the votes for ! women clause will be heard by com mittce of Congress. Delegates to the convention represent forty-two states.
 The credentials committee is work ing at the headquarters in the Hotel l Bellevue. II is anticipated that more than five hundred delegates were | seated.
 The national Executive Committee meat this evening, marking the first 1 formal event of the convention. To- morroy afternoon there will be d mass meeting rat Columbia theatre. Jane Addams, of Hull House, Chica- go; Leonora ORelly, the New York 1 labor leader, Senator Helen Rob- inson, of Colorado and others will speak.
 The most important business be- fore the convention is the action to be taken on the proposed new con stituton. This document has been constructed at considerable abor. by a committee consisting of Mrs. Car rie Chapman Catt, president of the International Woman Suffrage AL liance, Miss Caroline RutzReese, Miss Jessie Ahsley, Mrs. Helen Hoy Reenley, and Mrs. aymond Brown. This constitution will probably meet with slight opposition.
 eThe public meeting on Monday evening will begin with celebration of the suffrage victory in Illinois. It is expected that there will be ad- dresses by Mrs Catherine Waugh McCuloch, former state president and legislative chairmans Mrs. Ella s. Stewart also former president of the State Association, and by the four members of the foremost suffrage lobby, Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, Mrs. Antoniette Funck, Mrs. Booth and Mrs MediIl Mccormick. After the Illinoise women have told how they secured their partial fran- chise, Miss Lucy Burns, member of the Congressional Committee of the National Suffrage Association, will tell of the work being done for suf- frage amendment to the Constitution of the Uunited States The presidents annual address will then be made by IDr. Anna Howard Shaw.
 The program for Tuesday evening will be ill charge of the Mems League. James Lees I4aidaw, of New York, president of the National Mems
 League for Woman Suffrage will preside. It is expected that several Senators and Congressme1 will speak
 The Wednesday evening meeting has been arranged by Mrs. Joseph Bowden of Chicago, an officer of the National Suffrage Association. Ihe topic of the evening will be Women, Children and the Courts. Judge Mack of Chicago vii speak on the Juvenile Court, Judge Harry Olesen of Chicago on the Domestic Kela-e tions Court, Maude Miner of New York, on the Women's Night Court, from the standpoint of probation officer. Miss Katherine Davis, will, lit is said be present, and tell oi the work at Bedford Reformatory
 On Thursday evening addresses will be made by Mrs. Carrie Chap man Catt. president of the lntefna- tional Woman Suffrage Alliance. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, of Chica so and Mrs. Thomas Hepburn of Harf-l ford.
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