Women -- Suffrage -- History; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History; Women's rights -- History; Women's rights -- United States -- History
What was the result? Under date of Dec. 16, 1904, Senator
Beveridge notified headquarters that the Senate Committee had
unanimously voted to strike out the objectionable word "in
accordance with your very reasonable request." It was a great
victory and more than paid for the labor. Mrs. McCulloch was as
good as her word and raised the money to defray all the expenses,
giving $100 herself and securing from her friend and ours, Mrs.
Elmina Springer of Chicago, $500; Mrs. Mary Wood Swift of
California, president of the National Council of Women,
contributed $50; our own president, Miss Shaw, gave $25 and there
were some small contributions. The work was most economically
done, the printing and envelopes costing $118, the postage over
$300 and a balance was left.[37]
The report of Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, national treasurer, showed
receipts for the year to be $14,662, including bequests of $4,237 from
Mrs. Henrietta L. Banker of New York and $500 from Mrs. Armilla J.
Starr of Michigan; $2,000 from Mrs. Charlotte A. Cleveland of New York
and $100 each from Mrs. Jonas Green of Virginia and Mrs. Helen J.
Underwood of California. 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.
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