ciation to consider only subjects
relating directly to women and children.[38]

Under the pen name of Lucas Malet, Mrs. Mary St. Leger Harrison, a
daughter of Charles Kingsley who was a strong believer in woman
suffrage, had published an article in the London _Fortnightly Review_
attacking it and quoting President Roosevelt as an opponent. A long
resolution giving his favorable record for the past twenty-five years
on questions relating to women was presented and adopted, against the
judgment of many delegates. A committee was appointed to ask him for a
more definite expression on woman suffrage.[39]

Telegrams of greeting were sent to veterans in the cause--Mrs. Laura
de Force Gordon, Mrs. Caroline M. Severance, Mrs. Ellen Clark Sargent
of California; Mrs. Caroline E. Merrick of Louisiana; Mrs. Julia Ward
Howe, Col. T. W. Higginson, Mrs. Judith W. Smith of Massachusetts;
Mrs. Armenia S. White of New Hampshire; Miss Laura Moore of Vermont;
Mrs. Margaret W. Campbell of Iowa.

The Committee on Legislation for Civil Rights, Mrs. Blankenburg,
chairman, reported that among measures the suffragists had worked for,
the child labor laws had been strengthened in New York, Pennsylvania
and California; the "age of consent" had been raised in Illinois and
Oregon; laws had been passed in several States requiring that women
should be appointed to public boards and women physicians to public
institutions, California leading. In Massachusetts a petition that
women might take part in nominating candidates for the school board,
for which they were allowed to vote, signed by 100,000 women, was
refused by the Legislature. School suffrage was granted to women in
the first class cities of Oklahoma.

Mrs. Mead, chairman of the Committee on Peace and Arbitration seems to
outshine the preceding one but last night's was the one in Portland;
of the series of articles published in preparation for the
International Peace Congress in Boston in 1904 and the work she had
done in connection with it; of the many lectures given to universities
and clubs and of the arrangements to have the public schools observe
the anniversary of the first Hague Conference.

The _Oregonian_ said: "Each program given by the convention seems to
outshine the preceding one but last night's was the best thus far."
The speakers were Mrs. Ella S. Stewart, former president of the
Illinois Suffrage Association; the Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell (N.
J.); Mrs. Mary J. Cogge