the
convention.[24]

The reports at the executive sessions were possibly of more interest
to the delegates than the public addresses. Miss Gordon in her
secretary's report spoke of the 12,000 or 13,000 letters which had
been sent out since the last convention, many of them made necessary
by the International Conference of the preceding year, and of the
ending of its proceedings. To the 14,000 newspapers on the list to
receive the quarterly _Progress_ the names of legislators in various
States had been added, and to the latter leaflets attractively
prepared by Miss Blackwell also were sent. She described the new
suffrage postage stamp, a college girl in cap and gown holding a
tablet inscribed: "In Wyoming, Colorado, Utah and Idaho women vote on
the same terms as men," to offset the prevailing ignorance of this
fact. Resolutions endorsing woman suffrage had been secured from the
National Grange, the American Federation of Labor and a number of
large labor unions. For the first time in the history of the National
Education Association, three-fourths of whose members are women, a
woman had been invited to address their annual convention and the one
selected was the president of the National American Suffrage
Association. Mrs. Catt was cordially received by them in July at
Minneapolis.

Four of the five morning sessions were given over completely to Work
Conferences. The usual ones on Organization and Press were held with
Miss Mary Garrett Hay and Mrs. Elnora Babcock respectively presiding.
The conference on Enrollment gave way to one on Literature, Dr. Mary
D. Hussey presiding, and a new one on Legislation was added. A
president's and a delegates' conference completed the list. The Plan
of Work again presented by the Executive Committee emphasized the line
of action adopted in the first year of Mrs. Catt's presidency and
urged that the States endeavor to secure recommendations of their
Legislatures asking the submission of a 16th Amendment; that special
efforts be made to secure the appointment of a Commission to
investigate the working of full suffrage in States where it now
exists; that correspondence be taken up vigorously with all members of
Congress giving them the arguments in favor of a Federal Amendment and
of a Commission on Investigation; that the association aim to double
its membership the coming year and that a catalogue of woman suffrage
literature be prepared for libraries.

Only $3,000 in pledges were