an and Mr. Phillips; and Mrs. Livermore
paid a warm tribute to Mr. Phillips and Mrs. Doggett.

The plan of work adopted was in part as follows:

1. That the officers of this association memorialize Congress in
behalf of a sixteenth constitutional amendment prohibiting all
political distinctions on account of sex.

2. That while we do not undervalue any form of agitation, State
or national, we hold that practical woman suffrage can at present
be best promoted by urging legislative as well as constitutional
changes, and by appealing to State as well as national authority;
therefore we urge the establishment of active State societies,
with their working centers in the State capitals and their
corresponding committees in every representative district.

3. That in every State, at each session of its Legislature,
petitions should be presented by its own citizens asking for
woman suffrage by statute in all elections and for all officers
not expressly limited by the word "male" in the State
constitution.

4. That School Suffrage having been secured for women by statute
in twelve States, our next demand should be for Municipal
Suffrage by statute; also for Presidential Suffrage by statute,
under Article 2, Section 1, par. 2, of the United States
Constitution.

5. And, whereas, in three Territories, viz., Wyoming, Utah and
Washington, our cause is already won by statutes, therefore a
special effort should be made to secure similar statutory action
in the remaining Territories, viz.: Dakota, Montana, Idaho,
Arizona and New Mexico.

Addresses were made by the Rev. S. S. Hunting, Mrs. Margaret W.
Campbell of Iowa and Dr. Thomas. Mr. Foulke, Mrs. Mary E. Haggart of
Indiana, Mrs. Livermore and Lucy Stone addressed the evening meeting,
and the singing of the Doxology closed a memorable convention.

_1885._--The Seventeenth annual meeting was held in Minneapolis,
October 13-15, in the Church of the Redeemer (Universalist), the
finest in the city, which was given without charge. Here, as the daily
papers said, "the most brilliant audiences that ever assembled in
Minneapolis" gathered evening after evening until the last when crowds
of people went away unable to find even standing room. The pulpit
steps were occupied, extra seats were brought in, the aisles were
crowded, and as far as one could see over th