0 for work in
Montana, $50 in Vermont, $25 in Wisconsin and $15 in New York.

Memorial resolutions were adopted for Louisa M. Alcott, Dr. Mary F.
Thomas and James Freeman Clarke, D. D.

The following committee was chosen to continue the negotiations for
union with the National Woman Suffrage Association, which had been
entered upon in pursuance of the resolution adopted at Philadelphia:
the Hon. William Dudley Foulke, Indiana; the Rev. Anna H. Shaw,
Michigan; Miss Laura Clay, Kentucky; Mrs. Margaret W. Campbell, Iowa;
Prof. W. H. Carruth, Kansas; Miss Mary Grew, Pennsylvania; the Rev.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, New Jersey; Mrs. Sarah C. Schrader, Ohio;
Mrs. Catherine V. Waite, Illinois; Mrs. May S. Knaggs, Michigan; Miss
Alice Stone Blackwell, Massachusetts.

_1889._--In January these delegates met with those from the National
Association at the convention of the latter in Washington, D. C., and
arrangements for the union of the two societies for the following year
were practically completed.[146]

In the summer an appeal was addressed by Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe
and Mary A. Livermore to the constitutional conventions which were
preparing for Statehood in Dakota, Washington, Montana and Idaho. It
said in part:

The undersigned, officers of the American Woman Suffrage
Association, though not properly entitled to address your
convention, nevertheless ask its courtesy on account of the great
interest they feel in the question of the status you will give to
women.

You, gentlemen, felt keenly the disadvantage you were under when
you had only Territorial rights. If you will consider how much
greater are the disadvantages of a class that is wholly without
political rights, you will, we feel sure, pardon our entreaty
that in building your new constitution you will secure for women
equal political rights with men.

The men of the older States inherited their constitutions, with
the odious features which the common law imposes upon women. But
you are making constitutions. You have the golden opportunity to
save your women from all these evils by securing their right to
vote in the organic law of the new State. By doing this, over and
above the satisfaction which comes from having done a just deed,
you will win the gratitude of women for all time, as our fathers
won the gratitude of the race when they announced the pri