,
James Z. George, George F. Hoar, Matthew S. Quay and William A.
Peffer--were addressed by Elizabeth D. Bacon (Conn.), Sallie Clay
Bennett (Ky.), Lillie Devereux Blake (N. Y.), Lucretia L. Blankenburg
(Penn.), Mariana W. Chapman (N. Y.), Mary N. Chase (Vt.), Dr. Mary D.
Hussey (N. J.), Mrs. Frank Hubbard (Ills.), Lavina A. Hatch (Mass.),
May Stocking Knaggs (Mich.), Helen Morris Lewis (N. C.), Orra
Langhorne (Va.), Mary Elizabeth Milligan (Del.), Caroline Hallowell
Miller (Md.), Julia B. Nelson (Minn.), Mrs. R. W. Southard (Ok.),
Ellen Powell Thompson (D. C.), Victoria Conkling Whitney (Mo.),
Virginia D. Young (S. C.).

[110] On April 23 Senator Call submitted the Bill for a Sixteenth
Amendment without recommendation, and for himself and Senator George
the same old adverse report which had begun to do duty in 1882, and
which, he said, expressed their views. It will be found in the History
of Woman Suffrage, Vol. III, p. 237. Senator Quay evidently allowed
himself to be counted in the opposition.

[111] The members of the committee present were Representatives David
B. Henderson (chairman), Broderick, Updegraff, Gillett (Mass.) Baker
(N. H.), Burton (Mo.), Brown, Culberson, Boatner, Washington, Terry
and De Armond. Absent: Ray, Connolly, Bailey, Strong and Lewis. The
speakers were Mrs. L. C. Hughes (Ariz.), Charlotte Perkins Stetson
(Cal.), Annie L. Diggs, Katie R. Addison (Kan.), Elizabeth Upham Yates
(Me.), Henry B. Blackwell (Mass.), Harriet P. Sanders (Mont.), Clara
B. Colby (Neb.), Frances A. Williamson (Nev.), Dr. Cora Smith Eaton
(N. D.), Caroline McCullough Everhard (O.), Anna R. Simmons (S. D.),
Emily S. Richards (Utah), Jessie G. Manley (W. Va.).

CHAPTER XVII.

THE NATIONAL-AMERICAN CONVENTION OF 1897.

This year the suffrage association took its convention west of the
Mississippi River, the Twenty-ninth annual meeting being held in Des
Moines, Ia., Jan. 26-29, 1897. Circumstances were unfavorable, the
thermometer registering twenty-four degrees below zero and a heavy
blizzard prevailing throughout the West. Nevertheless sixty-three
delegates, representing twenty States, were present. All the visitors
were entertained in the hospitable homes of this city, and the entire
executive board were the guests of James and Martha C. Callanan at
their handsome home in the suburbs. Receptions were given by the Des
Moines Woman's Club, by the Young Women's Christian Association and by
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Hu