n Federal
Suffrage;[114] Mrs. Lillie Devereux Blake, chairman, on Legislation;
and Miss Laura Clay on the Suffrage Convocation at the Tennessee
Exposition the preceding year. The Plan of Work, offered by the
chairman, Mrs. Mariana W. Chapman, and adopted, represented the best
result of many years' experience and exemplified the aims and methods
of the association. The old board of officers was almost unanimously
re-elected.

The afternoon Work Conferences, to exchange ideas as to methods for
organizing, raising funds, etc., which met in a small hall, aroused so
much interest and attracted so many people that it was necessary to
transfer them to the large auditorium. The Resolutions Committee
presented by its chairman, Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, a brief summary of
the results already accomplished and the rights yet to be secured, in
part as follows:

The National-American Woman Suffrage Association, at this its
thirtieth annual meeting, celebrates the semi-centennial
anniversary of the first Woman's Rights Convention, held in 1848
in Seneca Falls, N. Y., and reaffirms every principle then and
there enunciated. We count the gains of fifty years. Woman's
position revolutionized in the home, in society, in the church
and in the State; public sentiment changed, customs modified,
industries opened, co-education established, laws amended,
economic independence partially secured, and equal suffrage a
recognized subject of legislation. Fifty years ago women voted
nowhere in the world; to-day Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho
have established equal suffrage for women, and have already in
the Congress of the United States eight Senators and seven
Representatives with women constituents. Kansas has granted women
Municipal Suffrage, and twenty-three other States have made women
voters in school elections. This movement is not confined to the
United States; in Great Britain and her colonies women now have
Municipal and County Suffrage, while New Zealand and South
Australia have abolished all political distinctions of sex.
Therefore,

_Resolved_, That we hereby express our profound appreciation of
the prophetic vision, advanced thought and moral courage of the
pioneers in this movement for equality of rights, and our sincere
gratitude for their half century of toil and endurance to secure
for women the privile