The Washington times., 1913-08-04
WOMEN VOTERS To
GATHER IN CAPITAL
Delegates From the Suffrage
States Will Attend Three.
Day Meeting Next Week.

Announcement of the program of the
three days meeting of the National
Council of Women Voters here next
week was made today at suffrage head
quarters on r street. The five business
sessions of the council will be held be-
hind closed doors at the Shoreham Ho-
tel, with Mrs. Emma Smith DeVoe,
president of the National Council, in
the chair.
On the morning of August II, from 10
o'clock till noon, the women will be
granted an informal hearing by the
House Committee on Rules, at which
time the principal speakers will be Miss
Jane Adams, of Chicago. and Miss
Helen Todd, one of California's leading
suffragists.
The first meeting of the council will
be held Wednesday morning, August 15.
when delegates from Alaska, Arizona,
and California will make their report
and when papers will be read on The
History OF Federal Work for Woman
Suffrage and ''The National Strength
of Woman Suffrage Today" In the aft
ernoon Colorado and idaho delegates
win be heard, and the discussion will be
devoted to the suffrage situation in the
House and in the Senate, the two being
taken up separately. In the evening
there will be reception to the dele
gates at the Shoreham.
Women From Suffrage States.
No one will be admitted to these
meetings except women from the States
where women vote, each of whom must
have credentials from her local or
ganization. Ten States and the Terri
tory of Alaska will be represented by
as many delegates as choose to come,
the object being to secure the attend
ance of the most influential suffragists
from the Commonwealths where women
vote, rather than to have as great a
number as possible here.
Thursday morning will be given over
entirely to the hearing before the House
Rules Committee, and in the afternoon
meeting the topic for discussion will be
The Attitude of the National Parties
Toward Woman Suffrage" At this
meeting the Illinois and Kansas delega-
uons viii report on the conditions in
their States.
Thursday evening Senator Brady of
Idaho and Mrs. Brady will be at home
to Mrs DeYoe and TO the members OF
the conference and their friends. II
was Senator Brady who was largely in
strumental in securing the organization
OF the National Council several years
mas ever greeted them in his Washing
ton home.
The morning session of Friday. the
10Th, viii be given over to a discussion
OF legislative proposals for 1914 and to
nearing reports from Oregon and Utah.
Pians for an international convention of
women voters in 1915 will be taken up
Al the final afternoon session, and the
Two remaining States, Washington and
Wyoming, will report.
End With Public Meeting.
The gathering of the national council
Eere viii conclude with a big public
meeting in one Of the local theaters
Friday night Miss Jane Adams ana
Miss Todd already have been announced
as speakers, and some Of the members
OF Congress also viii be heard. The
suo!ect for the evening will be Woman
suhrage-How II Works
Much significance attaches to NEXT
weeks meetings here, for it is the first
time IN the history OF the suffrage
movement in this country that ma
nonal gathering of women who are able
10 vote has been held The DELEGATES
mere VIII represent more than 100 OOO
women who have secured the ballot.
The officers of the association are
MRS. DeNoe, Of Tacoma. Wash, Dresi-
dent, and DR.. Cora Smith King. of
washington, treasurer. Mrs. King also
Is chairman of the Congressional COM
nitten- The other members, all of whom
will be here next week, are Mrs. Frank
W. Mondell, Wyoming; Mrs Annie
Hamilton Pitzer, Colorado; Mrs. George
W. Sutherland, Utah; Mrs. Fred T. Du-
oois, Idaho; Mrs Charles Morton
Washington State: Mrs John E. Raker,
California: Mrs. Henry F. Ashurst. Ari-
zona; Mrs William H Thompson,
Kansas; Mrs. Maude West Prescott,
Oregon, and Mrs. James Wickersham,
ALASKA