of the Ladies of the Maccabees, the
largest business organization of women in the world, by Mrs. Emma S.
Olds, (O.); and from the Central Socialist Club of Indiana. The report
from the Friends' Equal Rights Association, an affiliated society, was
made by its president, Mrs. Mariana W. Chapman (N. Y.). In the report
for New York by its president, Mrs. Ella Hawley Crosset, she called
attention to the completion of the Fourth Volume of the History of
Woman Suffrage by Miss Anthony and Mrs. Ida Husted Harper. During the
convention word was received that the Territorial Legislature of
Arizona had given full suffrage to women but before they had time to
rejoice a second telegram announced that the Governor had vetoed it!

The resolutions presented by Mr. Blackwell, chairman of the committee,
and adopted, rejoiced over the extension of national suffrage to all
the women of the newly federated Australian States; noted the granting
to Kansas women of the right to vote on issuing bonds for public
improvement and of an equal guardianship law in Massachusetts;
protested against "the recent action of the Cincinnati board of health
in introducing without legal warrant the European system of
sanctioning the social evil ... the object of a strong and growing
opposition wherever it prevails and favored the settlement of all
national and international controversies by arbitration and
disapproved of war as a relic of barbarism." Mrs. May Wright Sewall
(Ind.), president of the International Council of Women, who had come
to New Orleans to attend the executive meeting of the National Council
of the United States, as chairman of the International Committee on
Peace and Arbitration, spoke earnestly in favor of this resolution.
Miss Nettie Lovisa White (D. C.) was appointed a delegate to represent
the association at the Council meeting.

The Saturday evening public session, with Mrs. Catt presiding, was
opened with prayer by the Rev. R. Wilkinson, in which he said:
"Almighty God, Thou hast always been pleased with consecration. We
pray Thee to look down upon these people gathered here--the women
whose lives have been devoted to a great cause. Send forth Thy light
so that they may achieve still more for Thee. In this work, men and
women, animated with a noble purpose, are combining their forces to
bring about the reign of righteousness and when that comes it will
take all that both can do to eradicate the great evils which men have
already wr