istory of Woman Suffrage and eighty
copies of the new Volume IV to be sold, Miss Hauser said. Headquarters
were maintained at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. The
work inaugurated by Miss Anthony of securing resolutions for woman
suffrage from conventions of various kinds was successfully continued.
Fraternal delegates were sent to national conventions and the U. S.
National Council of Women had created a Committee on Political
Equality. Nineteen State organizations adopted resolutions endorsing
woman suffrage; fraternal delegates from suffrage associations were
sent to eighteen other State gatherings and the question was given a
hearing at six Territorial conventions; greetings were sent to three,
literature distributed in four and woman suffrage day observed in
three State gatherings. Add to these the 283 societies (not suffrage)
which reported adopting resolutions on the Statehood Protest and there
is positive knowledge that the question was before and received
favorable action from 339 societies in 1904. A full report was given
of the effort to obtain woman suffrage planks in the platforms of the
political parties, delegates from the association being sent to all.
[See Chapter XXIII.]

An outstanding feature of the year's achievements was what was known
as the Statehood Protest. At the beginning of the 58th Congress a bill
passed the Lower House providing for the admission to Statehood of
Oklahoma, Indian, Arizona and New Mexico Territories under the names
of Oklahoma and Arizona. It contained a clause saying that "the right
of suffrage should never be abridged except on account of illiteracy,
minority, _sex_, conviction of felony or mental condition." The
association's legal adviser, Mrs. Catharine Waugh McCulloch of
Chicago, was consulted by Mrs. Upton and Miss Hauser the preceding
June as to how the word "sex" could be eliminated. She took the matter
under consideration and laid her plan before the Business Committee in
September. It called for a nation-wide protest from women's
organizations and individuals. The committee approved but did not feel
able to make a sufficient appropriation. The report continued:

When the result was communicated to Mrs. McCulloch by letter she
answered post-haste: "We dare not let this work go undone. I will
raise the money for it myself." The headquarters undertook to do
the work. We appealed to the president or the corresponding
secretary