ion many prominent visitors were introduced to the
audiences, among them Miss Mary Johnston, who had taken a leading part
in organizing the State Suffrage Association of Virginia, and its
president, Mrs. Lila Meade Valentine; Mrs. Elizabeth Upham Yates, the
new president of Rhode Island; J. H. Braly, president of the Men's
League of California; J. Luther Langston, secretary and treasurer of
the Oklahoma Federation of Labor, and Daniel R. Anthony, M. C., of
Kansas. Many greetings were received including one from the Finnish
Temperance organizations through Miss Maggie Walz of Michigan and
others from Mrs. Caroline M. Severance and Mrs. Elizabeth Boynton
Harbert, pioneer suffragists now living in California. Greetings were
sent to Miss Clara Barton of Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Julia Ward Howe
of Boston; Miss Blackwell; the Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell of
Elizabeth, N. J.; Mrs. George Howard Lewis of Buffalo; Mrs. Eliza
Wright Osborne of Auburn, N. Y.; Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller of
Geneva, N. Y., all pioneers in suffrage work, and to Mrs. Belmont in
New York. A vote of thanks was extended to Miss Belle Bennett (Ky.),
president of the Southern Home Mission, for her strong efforts to
secure the admission of women to the General Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.

Through the effort of the District Equal Suffrage Association the
spacious Belasco Theater had been secured for the Sunday afternoon
meeting. Dr. Shaw presided and Rabbi Abram Simon offered prayer.[68] A
large audience listened to forceful addresses by Miss Beatrice Forbes
Robertson, Miss Laura Clay, Miss Harriet May Mills, Mrs. Ella S.
Stewart and Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman. In the evening the officers
of the association received the delegates, speakers and members of the
convention in the parlors of the Arlington.

One of the most valuable reports given at the convention was that of
Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead, chairman of the Standing Committee on Peace and
Arbitration. The events of a few years later caused the delegates to
remember with renewed interest the extended work and fervent appeals
of Mrs. Mead and her associates for settling the world's disputes by
peaceful methods. On this occasion she made a special plea to those
who were working for the enfranchisement of women.

Professor Potter, Mr. Blackwell's successor as chairman of the
committee, presented a set of strong resolutions, international as
well as national in character, which wer