The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-12-05

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fered by individuals and state organi-
cations, $500 was secured, while ap-
proximateIy S., 900 can be secured in
dues during the ensuing year Two
pledges of $500 each were made by
| Mrs. Writ Dexter of Boston, and Mrs.
Robert Gould Shaw, also of that city.
! A special committee was appointed
| to revise certain clauses OF the con-
! stitution, limiting the representation
OF affiliated members in the conven-
ton to a possible fifty delegates. The
auxiliary membership was eliminated.
Mrs. Pattie r. Jacobs of Birming-
ham, president OF the Alabama Equal
! Suffrage Association, urged that the
southern states concentrate on Ala
banna, since the legislature in that
state meets only once every four years.
A campaign committee OF nine mem
bers was appointed to study and Sc
lect campaign ground, following Mrs.
Jacobs announcement.
During the report of the campaign
committee. which Is headed by Mrs.
MediIl Mccormick, q resolution was
| passed authorizing the national board
to appoint committee to raise SUM-
cient funds to promote the work of
the press bureau and permit it's ex-
pansion.
The first Saturday in May was set
aside by the convention as a nation
wide celebration of suffrage day.
| Upon the announcement that DIR.
Shaw had been elected president, she
was given an ovation.
In Difference to the anti -administra-
/ ton faction, which proposed making
DIR. Shaw president emeritue, in order
| that she might devote all of her time
| 70 NpTnp-
mick of Boston, agreed to move her
residence to New York city, at great
| sacrifice, in order that she might &C
| cept first vice presidency of the ma
| tional association, assisting DR.. Shaw
with the heavy duties developing upon
the president in order that she might
give much of her time to campaign
work.
| Efforts of the administration
forces to limit the activities of the
| suffrage congressional committee TO
the support of the Bristow- Mendell
amendment to the exclusion OF the
Shafroth amendment resulted in a sig
| nal victory for the administration
forces by vote of 1914 to 100.
Both the Mississippi and Georgia
! associations emphatica1ly endorsed the
policy of the congressional committee
congressman.
otherwise known as the Susan B.
Anthony amendment, is as follows:
Resolved by the senate and house of
representatives of the United States
of American in congress assembled
| (two thirds Of each house concurring
therein) that the following article be
proposed to the legislatures of the
several states as an amendment to the
constitution of the United States,
which when ratified by three fourths
of the said legislatures, shall be valid
as part Of said constitution, namely:
"ArticIe-Section /. The right of
citizens of the United States to vote
shall not be defined or abridged by the
United States or by any state on ac-
count of sex.
Section 2. Congress shall have
power, by appropriate legislation, to
enforce the provisions of this article"
The Shafroth-P Palmer or State Initia-
tive Amendment is as follows:
Section /. Whenever any number
of legal voters of any state, to
number exceeding s per cent of the
number of legal voters voting at the
last preceding general election held in
such state, shall petition for the sub
mission to the legal voters of said
state Of the question whether women
shall have equal rights with men in
respect to voting at all elections to be
held in such state, such question shall
be so submitted, and If, upon such sub
mission, a majority Of the legal voters
of the state voting on the question
shall vote in favor of granting to wo-
men such equal rights, the same shall
thereupon be deemed established, any
thing in the constitution or laws of
such state to the contrary notwith-
standing