heodore Tilton is President, has appointed a committee of
eleven persons with full power to agree upon a basis for the
union of the two national associations, now, therefore, be
it

_Resolved_, That the convention for the purpose of carrying
out the object of said association, as expressed in said
Article II., and concentrating the efforts of all the
friends of woman suffrage throughout the Union for national
purposes, do hereby appoint.... who, with the eleven persons
heretofore appointed by said Woman Suffrage Society, shall
compose a joint committee with full power to form a union of
the American Woman Suffrage Association and the Union Woman
Suffrage Society under one constitution and one set of
officers. It is further provided, after notice to all, that
a majority of said joint committee shall have power to act.

The above was referred to the Committee on Resolutions.

At the afternoon session Vice-President Higginson invited the
Vice-Presidents of the associations of different States to seats
upon the platform.

Mrs. LUCY STONE was introduced, and gave an interesting account
of the course pursued by her and Mrs. Livermore in a
Massachusetts convention. Here the two ladies were received as
delegates, took their places among the regular delegates of the
convention, and voted with them. After that they urged their lady
friends to attend the ward meetings. The women of Massachusetts,
she said, paid taxes on $100,000,000 of property, the women of
Boston on $40,000,000. She thought it good policy to work inside
the parties.

Mrs. Dr. FERGUSON, of Indiana, thought it necessary to begin by
sowing the seeds of the doctrine. Meetings had been held in
different parts of the State. One was held on the sidewalk, was
well attended, and was followed by a large meeting. Soon after,
conventions were held, and though many women were afraid to take
hold of the subject, others advocated it with full force. We have
organized fourteen local societies. Some of these are sending out
their lecturers.

Col. T. W. HIGGINSON reported that the Rhode Island Society was
endeavoring to obtain the appointment of women as superintendents
of reform institutions. We should have matrons i