on How can we nationalize our
request for a 16th Amendment? At its conclusion it was voted to refer
to the Business Committee the idea of asking the suffragists of the
four free States to instruct their Senators and Representatives in
Congress to move for the submission of a 16th Amendment. It was her
thought that all the State suffrage associations should send petitions
to their respective Congressmen asking for a 16th Amendment to the
National Constitution enfranchising women; that earnest efforts should
be made to have other organizations take similar action and every
means employed to bring the question before them.

The reports of the standing and special committees and those from the
various State presidents, which occupied the morning and afternoon
sessions, were excellent and valuable as usual. Miss Kate M. Gordon
(La.) in her corresponding secretary's report called attention to the
conspicuous triumph for woman suffrage when the great International
Council of Women, whose delegates represented practically the whole
civilized world, at its meeting in Berlin the preceding year
unanimously endorsed woman suffrage and appointed a standing committee
on Citizenship and Equal Rights, with Dr. Shaw as its chairman. She
read letters from the Governors of the four equal suffrage States
regretting their inability to be present for Woman's Day at the
Exposition and giving the strongest possible endorsement of the
practical working of woman suffrage.

The report of Miss Elizabeth J. Hauser, headquarters secretary, of the
first year's work in its new home at Warren, O., was most interesting.
The letters sent out numbered 14,000 and included three during the
year to the president of every local club, giving information, plans
of work and encouragement. The bureau had over 1,200 individual
correspondents. Nearly 44,000 copies of _Progress_ went to newspapers,
public men, delegates to the political conventions and subscribers.
About 65,000 pieces of literature exclusive of _Progress_ were
distributed, going to every State and Territory, to Canada, England,
Holland and Australia. In addition thousands of booklets, political
equality leaflets and souvenirs of various kinds were sent forth as
propaganda. The report of Mrs. Catt, chairman of the Committee on
Literature, showed that it had provided 62,000 of these pieces and had
printed about 100,000 during the year. Miss Anthony had presented to
the association ten sets of the H