nses of printing, postage, etc., but the financial
obligation should be left to its own discretion. It was decided that
the plan of organization adopted by the conference be read to the
convention of the National Suffrage Association then in session. To
make the conference still more international in character a
vice-chairman representing Germany was added and the appointment was
left to the German societies. It was arranged that the committee
should hold office till the meeting in Berlin. It was moved by Mrs.
Friedland, seconded by Miss Fensham, that the foreign delegates accord
their warmest thanks to the National American Suffrage Association for
inviting them to the International Conference and for the many
kindnesses shown them.

Mrs. Catt had sent out a list of twenty-eight questions to most of the
countries and she reported that answers had been received from
thirty-two. These questions covered property rights of women,
occupations, wages, education, guardianship of children, divorce,
office holding, suffrage and other legal and civil rights. The full
and comprehensive answers, some of them from Consuls and other
government representatives, were published in the official report of
the conference and formed an invaluable collection of facts and
statistics such as had never before been made. They gave a striking
object lesson in the strong necessity for women to have a voice in the
laws and the governments under which they live.

It had been suggested by Mrs. Catt that this conference should
consider issuing a Declaration of Principles, expressing briefly the
demand for independence and individuality which women are making
today. Mrs. Fenwick Miller warmly supported the suggestion and a
committee of three was appointed to draw it up--Mrs. Avery, Mrs. Evald
and Miss Fensham. As finally submitted, discussed and accepted it
formed the platform of the international organization and was adopted
at each meeting for some years afterwards. It was called a Declaration
of Principles and read as follows:

1. Men and women are born equally free and independent members of
the human race, equally endowed with intelligence and ability and
equally entitled to the free exercise of their individual rights
and liberty.

2. The natural relation of the sexes is that of inter-dependence
and cooperation and the repression of the rights and liberty of
one sex inevitably works injury to the other and