ngress of the
International Suffrage Alliance in Stockholm. We have established
an exchange of propaganda with the International Shop in London.
At the suggestion of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt we have cooperated
with the Women's Enfranchisement League of Cape Colony, South
Africa, by asking a large number of American women writers to
send copies of their books to an exhibition and sale there of
women's work.
Since our last convention there have been two annual meetings of
the House of Governors, the first in Kentucky, at which Miss
Laura Clay obtained a hearing and presented our cause in a most
admirable address; the second in New Jersey, at which a hearing
was obtained for Dr. Shaw, who was accorded every courtesy and
received with heartiest enthusiasm by the Governors and
afterwards by their wives. In Kentucky Governor Wilson was
largely instrumental in securing the hearing; in New Jersey,
although the governor is also a Wilson, he is unfortunately an
"anti," but by the efforts of Governor Shafroth of Colorado, a
place on the program was made for Dr. Shaw.
Two valuable compilations have been made, one showing how many
times and when and what sort of suffrage bills have been
introduced into Legislatures in the last ten years, and the other
showing the exact procedure necessary for amending the
constitutions of the various States. Under the direction of Mrs.
Catharine Waugh McCulloch, our legal adviser, a series of
questions on the legal status of women has been printed and sent
with letters to the various States. The returns will be published
in pamphlet form. At the suggestion of Miss Clay, letters were
sent to all members of Congress urging their effort to include
women as electors in the bill providing for the direct election
of U. S. Senators. Copies of _Hampton's Magazine_ for April were
sent to special lists of people in Wisconsin, Kansas and
California, which contained Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr's article on
Colorado Women Voters.
We have published 30,000 copies of the "What to Do" leaflet,
which have been sent out gratis, some States applying for 3,000
at once; California sent for 10,000 and evidently learned "What
to Do" effectively. We issued 45,000 of the little convention
seals and the supply has hardly held out. The dr
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