stimation, is
invaluable and cannot be dispensed with.

The legal adviser announced the settlement at last of the bequest of
Mrs. Sarah J. McCall of Ohio, including 100 shares of Cincinnati
Street Railway stock, worth from $5,000 to $6,000, and $705 interest;
also the receipt of a legacy of $4,750, after the inheritance tax was
paid, from former U. S. Senator Thomas W. Palmer of Michigan.

Miss Elizabeth Yates said in her report on Presidential suffrage: "The
favorable decision the past year by the Supreme Court of Illinois
leaves no room for any further contention regarding its
constitutionality. It can be granted by any Legislature by a bare
majority vote and this can be obtained by many States that could not
secure the large vote necessary to submit a constitutional amendment
for full suffrage." She strongly urged that any State contemplating a
campaign for full suffrage should first secure the Presidential
franchise. In her usual excellent report on Church Work, Mrs. Mary E.
Craigie told of her visits to the Methodist Ministerial Associations
of Atlanta, Tampa and New Orleans with most gratifying results, as a
friendly spirit towards woman suffrage was developed and the last
named recommended the General Conference to give laity rights to
women. In cooperation with Dr. Nina Wilson Dewey, her chairman for
Iowa, arrangements were made during the Mississippi Valley Conference
in Des Moines with the clergymen of eighteen Protestant churches to
have their pulpits filled at some service on Sunday by women delegates
and the combined audiences by actual count numbered 6,000. Four
thousand copies of the annual letter asking for a mention of the need
of women's influence in State affairs in their Mothers' Day sermons
were sent to as many clergymen.

One of the most valuable sessions was Voters' Evening, under the
auspices of the National Men's League, with its president, James Lees
Laidlaw (N. Y.) in the chair. The opening address was made by U. S.
Senator Luke Lea (Tenn.), who received a great ovation when he began
and the audience rose with cheers and waving handkerchiefs when he
finished. He said in the course of his speech:

I am embarrassed by not knowing how to address this distinguished
audience.... Much as I regret it I must address you as "my
disfranchised friends," who, in spite of your learning, your
cultivation and your intelligence, under our enlightened and
progressive civiliza