Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-09-08
delegates at Atlantic City
Plan to Raise Million
Dollar Fund.
SEVERAL DEBATES
MARK DAY SESSION
Some Delegates Want State
Rights First and Some
Want Amendment.

A TLANTIC CITY, N j., Eept. T.
"a After a long debate, which car
ried the afternoon session OF the con-
yention we'll into the evening, the
National American Woman Suffrage
association today adopted a platform
outlining it's plan of campaign for Sc
curing the submission of the federal
suffrage amendment to the state leg
tslatures for ratification.
1t was decided that the next annual
convention in 1917 be held in March
or "thereabouts," that a lobby be con-
tinued at Washington and that the
association conduct nationwide
campaign of education, agitation, or
ganization and publicity In support
OF the federal amendment. A million-
dollar campaign fund is to be raised
between October, this year. and Oc-
tober, 1917.
Must Wait for Consent.
It was further agreed by the con-
Vention that no state association shaIi
ask the legislature of its state Tor the
submission OF an amendment or ref-
erendum to the people until the ma
tional board of the executive council
of the association shall have been
given the opportunity to investigate
conditions and give consent. ANY
state organization which proceeds to
such state campaign without consent
must be prepared to finance and con-
duct its campaign without help from
the national body. Other steps also
are to be taken to standardize ana
nationalize the woman suffrage move
ment.
The convention got into tangle
over the method OF considering the
platform. many parliamentary moves
being made to postpone immediate
consideration or to have the numef-
Gus items in it taken up separately.
Intjmations were made that steam
roller was being used to put the plat
form through the convention, but III
the end 1t was adopted without
amendment.
Tried to Put OFF Vote.
Then followed another debate on
the resolution of President carrie
Chapman Gait, presented YESTERDAY
which interprets the constitution 10
mean that the submission of the red
eral amendment is the immediate and
principal work of the association and
that all state work is merely in pre-
hardness to that end. This resolu-
tion had been made a special order
for the morning session and was
moved back until this afternoon.
When 1t did come before the conVen-
tion DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, former
president, endeavored to have con-
sideration again postponed until to-
morrow morning. ~
Some delegates said the resolution
was not worth the paper it was writ
change
sense of the associations constitution
and others felt it vitiated the action
of the convention yesterday when IL
was decided that the association
should work for both federal and
state suffrage legislation. Finally
many of the delegates became weary
of the long session and when another
motion was made to postpone cohslu ,
Grafton, 1t was quickly adopted anu
the resolution was fixed for the ilrs'
order of the business tomorrow morn
ing. 40
MANY delegates today explained TO
the convention the difficulties of get
ting proposed constitutional amend
. ments through the legislatures.
It Was Dixie Evening.
The evening session of the conven-
ton was given over to listening TO
speeches by southern women. 1t was
called "Dixie evening" Those who
were on the program as speakers were
Mrs. B. ]. Cunningham, president
Texas Suffrage association; MIS-
Thomas jefferson Smith, president
Kentucky Equal Rights association;
Mrs. Guilford Dudley, president Ten
nessee Equal Suffrage association;
Mrs. T. T. Cotman, vice-president Ar
kansas Woman Suffrage association.
President Wilson. who will address
the delegates tomorrow night VIII
have a guard of honor Of yellow pc
ribboned women as he enters the
board walk theater, where ne VIII
sneak