g and protested
against unjust taxation, but finally their cows went into the
treasury to satisfy the tax-collector.

ELIZABETH BOYNTON HARBERT of the Chicago _Inter-Ocean_, spoke on
the temperance work being done in Chicago, in connection with the
advocacy of the sixteenth amendment.

LILLIE DEVEREUX BLAKE reviewed the work in New York in getting
the bill through the legislature to appoint women on school
boards, which was finally vetoed by Governor Robinson.

Dr. MARY THOMPSON of Oregon, and Mrs. CROMWELL of Arkansas, gave
interesting reports from their States, relating many laughable
encounters with the opposition.

ROBERT PURVIS of Philadelphia, read a letter from the suffragists
of Pennsylvania, in which congratulations were extended to the
convention.

MARY A. S. CAREY, a worthy representative of the District of
Columbia, the first colored woman that ever edited a newspaper in
the United States, and who had been a worker in the cause for
twenty years, expressed her views on the question, and said the
colored women would support whatever party would allow them their
rights, be it Republican or Democratic.

Rev. OLYMPIA BROWN believed that a proper interpretation of the
fourteenth and fifteenth amendments did confer suffrage on women.
But men don't so understand it, and as a consequence when Mahomet
would not come to the mountain the mountain must go to Mahomet.
She said the day was coming, and rapidly, too, when women would
be given suffrage. There were very few now who did not
acknowledge the justice of it.

ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER gave her idea on "A Reconstructed
Police," showing how she would rule a police force if in her
control. Commencing with the location of the office, she
proceeded with her list of feminine and masculine officers, the
chief being herself. She would have a superintendent as aid, with
cooerdinate powers, and, besides the police force proper, which
she would form of men and women in equal proportions; she would
have matrons in charge of all station-houses. Her treatment of
vagrants would be to wash, feed, and clothe them, make them
stitch, wash and iron, take their history down for future
reference, and finally turn them out as skilled laborers. The
care of vagrant children would form an ite