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given to the finance amendment.
Washington suffragists are planning a
campaign to regain the headquarters.
The preliminary work of the con-
Vent1On will be done tomorrow by the
credentials committee which will eX-
anime the credentials of the delegates.
Its report will be presented Monday.
National officers do not. anticipate any
difficulties in the seating of the dele
cations. The national board also will
hold it's annual meeting tomorrow and
the. executive committee will meet to-
night.
A great mass meeting will be held
Sunday afternoon at which DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw, president Of the ma.
tional association will preside. Among
the speaker will be Miss Jane Adams
of Chicago, and Senator Helen Rims
Robinson of Denver, member of the
Colorado senate. At night a reunion
of the delegates will be held at a local
hotel.
Monday a welcoming address to the
delegates will be delivered by Mrs
Nina E. Allender, president Of the
state society Of the District of Co.
lumbia. Miss Alice Paul, chairman Of
the congressional committee Of the ma"
tional association also will welcome
the delegates. A response will bt
made by Mrs. Scion Jacobs, president
of the Alabama Suffrage association
The remainder Of the afternoon SEES
sion will be taken up with reports OF
the officers and departments.
The great Illinois celebration will
be held that evening and many promi-
nent Illinois women will take part
Among them will be the women who
led the actual fight for the suffrage
amendment in that state: The first
speaker will be Mrs. Grace Wilbur
Trout, president Of the Illinois Sur
frage association. She will be followed
by Mrs. Sherman K. Booth, chairman
of the legislative committed; Mrs
Catherine Waugh Mccullough, Mrs
Medill Mccormick, Mrs. Ella S. Stew
art n Mrs. Antoinette Funk.
Miss Lucy Burns, vice chairman OF
the Congressional Union for Woman
Suffrage, will discusss the National
Suffrage Amendment. She will deal
with the efforts of the union to further
the passage by congress of the equal
suffrage amendment to the federal
constitution. DR.. Shaw, the president
will close the evenings meeting with
her annual address, ~ 81 l.. s--.
Consideration, of the new constitu-
ton and a conference on methods for
furthering the suffrage movement will
come UP Tuesday. That evening the
Mems league will hold a meeting, pre-
sided over by James Lees Laidlaw,
president of the league. Among the
speakers will be Senators Bristow of
Kansas, Thomas of Colorado and
Owen of Oklahoma; Representatives
Murdoch Of Kansas, and J. w. Bryan
OF Washington, and former Mayor
George Creel of Denver.
The various state organizations will
make their annual reports Wednes-
day. They will detail their progress
in furthering the movement in the
various states and discuss plans they
have made for the future. Presenta-
which another conference on methods
will be held, lead by Miss Helen HactpS
er Of Lawrence, Kan.
On Wednesday night Federal Judge
Julian w. Mack will discuss Women
and Children in the Courts. Judge
Mack vas formerly judge of the Ju-
venile Court at Chicago. Judge Harry
Olsen, of the Chicago Domestic Re-
lations court, Miss Maud Miner, pro-
baton officer of New York City, and
Miss Katherine Davis, superintendent
of the Bedford, N. Y. reformatory, will
also speak.
Both the morning and afternoon
sessions of Thursday will be devoted
to the business of the convention
while at night Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, president of the International
Woman Suffrage association, will de-
liver an address on the international
aspects of the feminist movement.
She will be followed by Mrs. Thomas
Hepburn, president of the Connecticut
Woman Suffrage association.
The convention closes Friday al
though practically the last business
Of the sessions will be ended the day
previous. The executive committee
will hold its final meeting in the after
noon and h official board meeting
will be held in the evening.