The Washington times., 1915-12-14
Welcoming Speech Of Veteran
President Assumes Aspects
Of Farewell to Workers.
RUM0RS AS TO SUCCESSOR
Committee Reports Read and
Routine Matters Considered
At Opening Session.

With an address of welcome that
also partook of the nature OF fare
we'll speech. DR.. Anna Howard Shaw.
president of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association, opened
tho forty-seventh annual convention
of that body In the ball room Of the
New Willard Hotel this morning.
pr. shaw recalled that she had at
tended every convention stree 1883,
and after saying that she now could
count upon her fingers the faces be-
fore her that were present then, she
concluded:
so. in greeting you today. all / can
say is all hail to the new. and thank
As DR.. Shaw arose to make her
speech the large" ball room of the
New willard presented brilliant
spectacle. state delegations had been
and colors of the States. the official
yellow OF the woman suffrage colors
being the pred0minating hue Young
girls acting as pages. fitted about.
nr; ShaWs hntS iS.S personal page Is Miss
All the pages wore yellow streamers.
and those attached to the informat ton
booth had printed on these streamers
tho invitation. ASK me-
President To Receive.
Just before making her address DR..
Shaw announced that delegates were
to be received al the White House this
afternoon at 3 O'Clock. When the ap-
plause subsidized. Mrs. John McClintock,
OF MeadVille. Pa. inquired: Madam
ception as a pleasure or a duty?"
THE President of the United States
has cCurteously consented to receive
the delegates to this convention" re-
In the course of her address DR..
Shaw e erred to Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait. \,.,o has been suggested as a pos
siole successor to DR.. Shaw as president
that, when she accepted the presidency
OF the association. It the request Of
the late Susan B. Anthony. her one de-
sire was to fill the office as creditably
porters Of Mrs. Gait for the presidency
loudly applauded at this point
Rumois In regard to the presidency
hew thick and fast before the sessions
former president of the Pennsylvania
state AssUcia don, VINO had been mem
Toned for the office. announced she
LOUD not be a candidate. Friends of
Mrs. Gait also said she had tod them
shc would not accept IL i1uer any cir
cumstanccs. There was further re-
port thdt DR.. shaw again might take
'he olnce If large majority We're not
"Srced upon some othef candidate.
st. Luis Wants Convention.
Announcement was mad that st
Louis had offered tnat city = large con-
Fenlion haii ioI The next con ,ei!I)n Of
the association. At n mee.Ing of the
eAeEutlNe council This nIoIn.ns 1t was
ucrlucd TO ASK for bCdget OF $50 yUO
Tor next years expenditures. or this
Alo.OUO Is to be devo,ed IC a nat,Cn. wlde =
pLolichy camDai@n.
chances ui reaching an agreement
with the Congressional Union for Wom-
an Suffrage so the national body and
that oreaiii@stion can work in the same
fold wee discounted by delegates 90
day. 1t was said that the "ant-party
policy of the union had ali.nated them
ton.
Recommendation also will be made
that special campaigns be carried IN in
Iowa, South Dakota, West Virginia,
and perhaps in Missouri
Mrs: Medill Mccormick reported for
the program committee in the absence
IF its Chairman, Mrs. Sherman NJ.
Booth. Mrs. Winston Churchill, chair
man, and Mrs. Raymond B. Morgan.
vice chairman. reported for the local
ARRANGEMENTS committee. Other reports
this morning We're those of Miss Mary
Nab Miller. for the auditors: Mrs
Henry Wade Rogers. treasurer and
hnance: Charles 7. liallinan. publicity.
and Miss Gratia Erickson. election.
rangements had been made for a hea' =
Ing before the Senate Suffrage Com
mittee on Wednesday. The date For
the hearing before the House Judici-
airy Committee has not vet been set
by the chairman of that committee.
Miss Margaret Wilson had been ir.-
Vited to speak at the mass meeting
next Sunday, Mrs. Winston Churchill
said. She declined to make an adj
dress but will be on the platform.