uragement to those of California. Mrs. Sperry was persuaded to
take the presidency.[11] An interesting event reported was a suffrage
meeting of the Sierra Club of mountain lovers one summer evening in
King's River Canyon, where it was encamped. In the audience of over
two hundred prominent men and women were Professor Joseph Le Conte,
John Muir, William Keith, Dr. C. Hart Merriam, head of the U. S.
biological department and Dr. Gannett, of the geological department.

The State convention of 1903 met in Golden Gate Hall, San Francisco,
November 18, 19. Among the addresses of welcome was one by the Rev.
Bradford Leavitt of the Unitarian church and one by President Benham
of the city Labor Council. Mrs. Sargent and Mrs. E. O. Smith paid
tributes to the memory of the association's honorary president, Mrs.
Sarah Knox Goodrich, a devoted supporter of the cause for the past
thirty-five years. Greetings were read from Miss Anthony, Henry B. and
Alice Stone Blackwell, Mrs. Upton and Mrs. L. F. Darling, president of
the State Federation of Women's Clubs. Miss Gail Laughlin, a young
lawyer from the East, who was now State organizer, was among the
speakers, and Albert H. Elliott, a San Francisco lawyer, gave an
instructive talk on California Laws for Women. The executive board
made the excellent appointment of Dr. Alida C. Avery of San Jose as
historian. One hundred dollars were sent to the national board for use
in the New Hampshire campaign. The State association endorsed Mrs.
Sargent's protest against a referendum vote on the issuing of San
Francisco's city bonds in which women were not allowed to take part.

A question considered at many board meetings had been the advisability
of trying to obtain from the Legislature another submission of an
amendment. The Los Angeles Suffrage League was waiting to know what
action would be taken. Mrs. Catt had written that it might be well to
make the effort and so a resolution was unanimously adopted to ask
this of the session of 1905. A letter had been sent by Mrs. Catt
suggesting plans of work to this end for the coming year and one was
received from Miss Anthony asking that Mrs. Stanton's birthday be
celebrated on November 12.

The Los Angeles Equal Suffrage Society had not affiliated with the
State Association because of the long distance to San Francisco and
the announcement by Mrs. Sperry that the affiliation had now been made
was enthusiastically received. The movement had been acti