ments and fraternal delegates
from the International Council of Women, ten National Councils, seven
non-affiliated national associations for woman suffrage and eleven
national organizations in sympathy with it. Mrs. Catt introduced Mrs.
Henry Dobson, sent by the Commonwealth of Australia; Miss Gina Krog,
sent by the government of Norway; Dr. Romania Penrose, Mrs. Helen L.
Grenfell and Mrs. Harriet Q. Sheik, appointed by the Governors of
Utah, Colorado and Wyoming, U. S. A.

The following countries had their full quota of six delegates:
Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden,
United States, and nearly all had six alternates. Russia had five
delegates; Finland, Switzerland and South Africa two each; Italy,
Bulgaria, Australia and Canada one each. Miss Chrystal Macmillan of
Scotland represented the International Council of Women; Dr. C. V.
Drysdale, the Men's League for Women's Enfranchisement of Great
Britain; Mrs. Marie Lang, the Austrian Committee for Woman Suffrage;
Miss Franciska Plaminkova and Miss Marie Stepankova, the Czechish
Woman Suffrage Committee of Bohemia; Mrs. Alice M. Steele, New
Zealand--the last three countries not yet affiliated. All kinds of
organizations sent fraternal delegates, from the Union of Ethical
Societies in London, whose delegate was Stanton Coit, their leader, to
the Society of Peasant Women in Balmazujvaros, Hungary.

This was doubtless in many respects the most remarkable and important
gathering of women ever assembled up to that time. English, French and
German were adopted as the official languages. The wise and
sympathetic management of Mrs. Catt convinced those of all nations
that impartiality and justice would prevail without exception; a
common bond united them; they learned that in all countries the
obstacles to woman suffrage were the same and that in all women
were oppressed by the inequality of the laws and by their
disenfranchisement, and they understood the influence which could be
exerted through an international movement. There were occasional
misunderstandings on account of the varied parliamentary procedure in
different countries and because of the necessity for interpreting much
that took place but on the whole the delegates were satisfied. They
had intense admiration for the great executive ability of their
president and showed their confidence in her again and again.

Switzerland, Bulgaria and South Africa having announced through thei