s of papers and giving the oath of
allegiance. _State_--Adoption of the Australian ballot; reduction of
number of ballots printed to not more than 5 per cent. more than
registration; for "military" and "poll tax" substitution of "election
tax," to be remitted to persons voting and collected from those
failing to do so when not unavoidably prevented by illness; adoption
of absent voter law--Montana or Minnesota statutes recommended;
discontinuance of vehicles except for sick or feeble or crippled
persons; even division of Judges between major political parties,
examination required, more latitude in appointment and removal for
cause; election of judicial, legislative and educational officers at a
different time from that for national and State.

Miss Jessie R. Haver, legislative representative of the National
Consumers' League and executive secretary of the Consumers' League of
the District of Columbia, read a paper on The Government and the
Market Basket, after which she presented a resolution urging the
chairman of the Senate and House Interstate Commerce Committee to
re-introduce and pass the bill drafted by the Federal Trade Commission
in reference to the Packers' Trust.

During the convention sectional conferences were held on the
department subjects. Out of these conferences came many suggestions
and two resolutions were adopted: 1. That the League of Women Voters
supports the Federal Trade Commission in its efforts to secure
remedial legislation in the meat-packing industry. 2. That the
convention endorses the principle of federal aid to the States for the
removal of adult illiteracy and the Americanization of the adult
foreign born.

In June, 1919, the initial conference of the president, Mrs. Brooks,
and the committee chairmen of the League of Women Voters, was held at
the headquarters of the National Suffrage Association, 171 Madison
Avenue, New York City, and plans were made to render the league
effective throughout the United States.

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The record of the action of the Official Board of the National
American Woman Suffrage Association in 1919 on questions pertaining to
the League of Women Voters is as follows: In April it was voted that
the Americanization Committee and the Committee on Protection of Women
in Industry of the association be united with the committees of the
same name in the league. In May the following chairmen for new
committees were selected, sub