een defrayed by special contributions of $900 of
the $1,000 given to Miss Anthony by Mrs. Southworth, and $400
through the New York State Association, from the bequest of Mrs.
Eliza J. Clapp of Rochester to Miss Anthony.

Mr. Blackwell, as usual, reported for the Committee on Presidential
Suffrage, suggesting a form of petition as follows:

WHEREAS, The Constitution of the United States, the supreme law
of the land, expressly confers upon the Legislature of every
State the sole and exclusive right to appoint or to delegate the
appointment of presidential electors, in article II, section 1,
paragraph 2, as follows: "Each State shall appoint in such manner
as the Legislature thereof may direct a number of electors equal
to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the
State may be entitled in the Congress;" and

WHEREAS, In some of the States said appointment has been
repeatedly made by the Legislature; and

WHEREAS, Women equally with men are citizens of this State and of
the United States; therefore,

_The undersigned_, citizens of the State of ----, 21 years of age
and upwards, respectfully petition your honorable bodies so to
amend the election laws as to enable women to vote in the
appointment of presidential electors.

The report of the treasurer, Mrs. Upton, showed that the receipts had
risen to $11,825 during the year just passed. It ended thus: "In
closing this report the treasurer would like to say that no one person
has ever been to the treasury what Miss Anthony has been and is. Every
dollar given to her for any purpose whatever, she feels belongs to the
work and is most happy when she turns it in. On the other hand the
association does very little for her. She pays her own traveling
expenses and her own clerk hire. It is to be hoped that this is the
last year we may be so neglectful in this direction."

The Congressional Committee, Mrs. Ellen Powell Thompson, acting
chairman, reported as a part of the work done: "To still further
advance the matter we determined to address a letter to each member of
the House and Senate, asking his opinion on the proposed amendment to
enfranchise women. At least three-fourths of these letters were
promptly answered in most gracious terms, and in many of them hearty
sympathy with the purpose of the amendment was expressed. Not a small
number declared they were