of dreamers,
of Confucius, of Buddha, of Jesus, of the English Commons
fighting for the Magna Charta, of the Pilgrims, of the American
Revolutionists, of the Anti-slavery men and women. The seers and
leaders of all times have been dreamers. Every step of progress
the world has made is the crystallization of a dream into
reality. To look forward to a time when men shall be just, when
"fair play and a square deal for all" will include women, when
our republic shall in truth become what its dreamers have hoped
it would be, a government "of the people, by the people and for
the people,"--this _is_ a dream but it is a dream which we are
helping to make real, and the result will come not alone because
a vision has been revealed but by following it steadfastly to its
fruition. The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the
practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and
apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human
ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.

During the several business sessions the following action was taken:
It was directed that a letter be sent to the President-elect, Theodore
Roosevelt, asking him to recommend the submission of a 16th Amendment
in his message to Congress; that as many organizations of women as
possible be secured to unite in urging him to do so, following the
methods employed by the Protest Committee (a committee appointed to
wait upon him to present this request); that the Banker, Starr,
Underwood and Green bequests amounting to $3,801 be appropriated for
campaign work in Oregon and the Territories. Miss Clay announced that
Miss Laura Bruce had bequeathed $5,000 to her in trust for the
National American Woman Suffrage Association.

The work conferences established by Mrs. Catt during her
administration were held with the following among the questions
discussed: Must we supplement our present form of organization to
achieve our "argument of numbers"? How can we best spread our ideas in
other organizations? The field in 1904 and 1905. Our request in 1904
for a plank in the national platforms. These conferences, which had
been a feature of the conventions for eight years, were dropped after
this one but many of the practical subjects formerly discussed in such
conferences were placed on the regular program. Mrs. Catharine Waugh
McCulloch presided at the conference