shall be made
of (a) the files of data; (b) the property; (c) the funds, if any
remain?

6. In the event that the association shall be dissolved what agency
shall become the auxiliary of the International Woman Suffrage
Alliance?

7. What plan for the intensive education of new women voters is
possible and shall it be recommended that the League of Women Voters
take up this work or shall it be conducted under the National American
Woman Suffrage Association?

At the beginning of the afternoon session Mrs. Catt said that for
twenty-eight years the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw had opened the national
conventions with prayer and she asked that in memory of her the
delegates rise and join in silent prayer. They did so and many were
in tears. The Rev. Herbert L. Willet then offered the invocation. Mrs.
Trout, president of the Illinois Suffrage Association, cordially
welcomed the delegates to Chicago. The greeting from the Canadian
Woman Suffrage Association was brought by its president, Dr. Margaret
Gordon. Mrs. Catt made a gracious response and resigning the chair to
the first vice-president, Mrs. Katharine Dexter McCormick, gave a
brief address, reserving a longer one for the League of Women Voters.
She said in part:

When we met at St. Louis a year ago in the 50th annual convention
of our association, we knew that the end of our long struggle was
near. We comprehended in a new sense the truth of Victor Hugo's
sage epigram: "There is one thing more powerful than Kings and
Armies--the idea whose time has come to move." We knew that the
time for our idea was here, and as State after State has joined
the list of the ratified we have seen our idea, our cause, move
forward dramatically, majestically into its appropriate place as
part of the constitution of our nation. We have not yet the
official proclamation announcing that our amendment has been
ratified by the necessary thirty-six States, but thirty-one have
done so and another will ratify before we adjourn; three
Governors have promised special sessions very soon and two more
Legislatures will ratify when called together. There is no power
on this earth that can do more than delay by a trifle the final
enfranchisement of women.

The enemies of progress and liberty never surrender and never
die. Ever since the days of cave-men they have stood ready with
their sledge hammers to st