ornia. The disbursements were $12,437. Miss Hauser
asked for the money for the next year's work and $4,614 were quickly
subscribed. A large number of $50 life memberships were taken. One
hundred one-dollar pledges were made in memory of Sacajawea. Mrs. Catt
guaranteed that Mrs. Upton and herself would raise $3,000 for the
Oregon campaign.

Henry B. Blackwell, chairman of the Presidential Suffrage Committee,
gave the welcome information that the U. S. Supreme Court through
Chief Justice Fuller had rendered a decision that "the power of every
State Legislature in the appointment of presidential electors is
plenary, exclusive and final." The report of Mrs. Ida Porter Boyer,
chairman of the Libraries Committee, was read by Mrs. Blankenburg and
showed that thus far a bibliography of 823 books, pamphlets, etc., on
woman suffrage had been compiled. One book bore the date of 1627.
Another had the title "No Female Suffrage; Theology, Logic, Anatomy,
Physiology and Philology United to Establish the Truism that Woman is
No Human Being." Mrs. Blankenburg went as fraternal delegate to the
convention of the National Libraries Association meeting in Portland
at this time and gave part of this report, which was received with
much interest and cooperation was promised.

The report of Mrs. Elnora M. Babcock, chairman of the Press Committee,
was as complete and valuable as usual. It said that 80,000 general
suffrage articles had been sent out and 6,000 papers supplied by the
chairman and committee since the last convention. Each paper in
Portland had been furnished with personal sketches of every officer
and speaker connected with the convention and copies of all the
reports and speeches that could be obtained, as was customary wherever
a convention was held. In referring to special articles she said that
5,000 copies from members of the association and residents of Colorado
had been sent out in answer to the charges that woman suffrage was
responsible for the recent election frauds in that State, which seemed
to be made by every opponent who could wield a pen. Answers were
widely distributed to the report of the Mosely Educational Commission
sent here from Great Britain, and the Male Teachers' Association of
New York, to the effect that women should not be employed to teach
boys over ten years of age and that teaching was interfering with the
marriage of many women and keeping them from their proper place in the
world. The article of f