Catt closed the meeting with references to the successful
campaign of 1893, seventeen years later.

A resolution presented by Mrs. Mead was adopted urging Congress to
take the initial steps toward inviting the governments of the world to
establish an International Advisory Congress, and impressing upon
equal suffragists that they should create local public sentiment in
favor of arbitration treaties between the United States and all
countries with which it has diplomatic relations. On motion of Mrs.
Grenfell the convention endorsed the bill before Congress for a
national board of child and animal protection. It rejoiced in the
voting of 850,000 women in Australia and in the fact that woman
suffrage existed throughout 300,000 square miles of United States
territory and eight Senators and nine Representatives were sent to
Congress by votes of both men and women. Mrs. Mary Church Terrell (D.
C.), a highly educated woman, showing little trace of negro blood,
said: "A resolution asks you to stand up for children and animals; I
want you to stand up not only for children and animals but also for
negroes. You will never get suffrage until the sense of justice has
been so developed in men that they will give fair play to the colored
race. Much has been said about the purchasability of the negro vote.
They never sold their votes till they found that it made no difference
how they cast them. Then, being poor and ignorant and human, they
began to sell them, but soon after the Civil War I knew many efforts
to tempt them to do so which were not successful. My sisters of the
dominant race, stand up not only for the oppressed sex but also for
the oppressed race!"

Resolutions of regret were adopted for the death of many pioneer
suffragists during the year, among them Sarah Knox Goodrich of
California; Sarah Burger Stearns of Minnesota; Judge J. W. Kingman of
Iowa; Ellen Sully Fray of Ohio; Eliza Sproat Turner and Samuel Pennock
of Pennsylvania; Henrietta L. T. Wolcott, Lavina A. Hatch, Alice
Gordon Gulick, Richard P. Hallowell and the Hon. Henry S. Washburn of
Massachusetts. Telegrams of remembrance were sent to the veteran
workers, Mrs. Martha S. Root of Michigan and Mrs. Caroline E. Merrick
of Louisiana, and a letter to Mrs. Ellen Powell Thompson of the
District. Mrs. Kate Trimble Woolsey of Kentucky, author of Republics
vs. Women, was introduced to the convention and showed how republics
disfranchised half of their citizens.

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