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Naﬂd Decembar bilia. most of which i was in the cith, do not Show thaﬁ I
added anything t6 the bills, though I am charging myself aﬁ the rate of"
59oents per month for the-ﬂan moﬁtha in which I was in the city. 1 am sendigj
thig sama account by this mail to Mf.Graves; an& if you and he do not think‘
it is equiﬁable; pleagg let me know wherain you do not agree with iﬁ, and I
will try to adjust i? rightly. Your bill for niheteen months amounts to
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OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL
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PRESIDENT

MRs. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT
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FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT

MRS. MILLICENT GARRETT FAWCETT. LL.D.
2 GOWER STREET. LONDON. ENGLAND

SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT

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SECRETARIES

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MISS ANNA LINDEMANN BOSTON‘ MASSACHUSETTS 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITv
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MISS LAURA CLAY

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TELEPHONE 4—717 BACK BAV MISS ALICE STONE BLACKWELL
TREASURER 585 BOYLSYON STREET. BOSTON. MASS.

MRS. ADELA STANTON COIT LEGAL ADVISER
LONDON. ENGLAND MRS, CATHARINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH

March 3, 1911.

Miss Laura Clay, '
189 North Hill St.,
Lexington, Ky.

Dear Miss Clay:-

On March 15 I am to make before a Notary Public a
sworn statement as to our circulation the week ending March
18. Of course, I am going to include in that the number of
Journals we send to the news stands in Boston and New York.

I wish, of course, to have just as large a subscription list
as is physically possible with the assistance of everyone.
Will you therefore do your utmost to help us swell our sub-
scription list for that date?

If you willspeak a few words for The Journal at
every public meeting where you possibly can be allow an op-
portunity I am sure it will help greatly, especially if you
mention the date and tell what we are trying for.

Yesterday I sent out a letter to the 60 people Who
are working for the 100 subscription mark in different states
in the Union. I asked them to bend their energy to turn in as
many subscriptions as possible by March 15.

This figure which I shall swear to will probably
be published in all of the guides to circulation which are
put into the hands of advertisers. The figure found in these
books is what settles whether an advertiser will give us busi-
ness or not. You can therefore see how anxious I am.to have a
large figure.

Yours sincerely,
WA

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PRESIDENT, ANNA HOWARD SHAW. MOYLAN. PA.

151' VICE-PRESIDENT. CATHARINE WAUGH MCCULLOCH. TREASURER. JESSIE ASHLEY.
EVANSTON. ILLS. 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY

1800 FRVTANIA STREET. NEW ORLEANS. LA. LEXINGTON. KY.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. MARY WARE DENNETT, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL,
505 F|FTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY 6 BEACON STREET. BOSTON. MASS.

2ND VICE-PRESIDENT KATE M. GORDON, LAURA CLAY. 169 NORTH MILL STREET.
AUDITORS

RECORDING SECRETARY. ELLA S. STEWART. CHAIRMAN PRESS COMMITTEE. IDA HUSTED HARPER.
5464 JEFFERSON AVENUE. cmcnco. ILLS. AUXILIARIES 505 FIFTH AVENUE. NEW YORK CITY

COLLEGE EQUAL SUFFRAGE LEAGUE
PRESIDENT. MIss M. CAREY THOMAS, BRYN MAWR. PA.

FRIENDS EQUAL RIGHTS ASSOCIATION
PRESIDENT. MARY BENTLEY THOMAS. EDNOR. MARYLAND

AFFILIATED SOCIETY
THE EQUAL FRANCHISE SOCIETY
PRESIDENT. MRS. MACKAY. I MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK

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Kiss Laura Clay,

Lexington, Ky.
My dear Miss Clay:

I can almost cry "Eureka", is Miss Ashley has written
me a letter in which she promises me a statement dated as of March

lst. In this letter she gives me save-.1 items of interest, but
I shall have to summarize them before I can realize the situation

just as it is. Her letter is very kindly ari apologizes for wait—
ing so long.

I think you are all right about the trust mOney. You
should have a definite receipt to show with your other vouchers.
Of course, no one will ever criticise Laura Clay or believe that
she could ever dishonestly divert One cent from its proper place,
but you shruld always have your vouchers at hand so that it some
crazy person should criticise you, you car prove it.

When she writes you, she probably will apologize po-
litely as she did to me. Her letter to me of €ive long pages
was written by hand so she may be doing C‘orythins herself.

I wrote hrsﬁ Shaw about the Kansas situation that she

did right in withdrawing Laura Gregg and I relieve that the ey should

be encouraged in selfmsupport and independence. I believe the Sci;
aLkZu£M~xaﬂornia Suffrage women ought to show a little more personal indepenl—

ence in wanting to pay their own bills and it is a comfort to feel

that there will be enough wealth in California to carry their own

campaign, but if any other states gets an amendnent submitted, I

do not know what we shall do.

Our own affairs in Illinois are critical now. Our
enemies are out in the open. The Liquor Dealers' Ass'n are sending'
twenty men to Springfield next week. I had to cancel my enga gemrnt
to go to Wisconsin before their legislature, ~or notviths tending
my lack of length and breadth, Yrs. Stewart thinrs that thor e legis-
lators are afraid of your humble servant.

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SUFFRAGE.

Section 1. The following classes of persons shall not be allowed to vote in
this state, to-wit:

First-Persons under twenty-one years of age.

Second-Idiots and lunatics.

Third-All paupers supported by any county.

Fourth-All persons convicted of any felony, subject to such exceptions as
the legislature may make.

Fifth-All soldiers, marines and seamen employed in the service of the army
or navy of the United States.

Sec. 2. Every male person subject to none of the foregoing disqualifications,
who shall have attained the age of twenty-one Years, and who shall be a citizen
of the United States, and who shall have resided in this state one year next
preceding an election, and the last six months within the district or county in
which he offers to vote, shall be deemed a qualified elector; and every male
person of foreign birth, subject to none of the foregoing disqualifications, who,
at any time before an election, shall have declared his intention to become a
citizen of the United States, in accordance with the federal naturalization laws,
and shall have resided in this state one Year next preceding such election, and
the last six months in the county in which he offers to vote, shall also be
deemed a qualified elector.

ARTICLE Vll.
EDUCATION-THE PUBLIC FREE SCHOOLS.
Sec. 3. One-fourth of the revenue derived from the state occupation taxes,
and a poll tax of one dollar on every male inhabitant of this state between

the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, shall be set apart annually for the
benefit of the public free schools.

An exact copy taken from The Constitution of the State of Texas.

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OFFICERS CHAIRMEN SPECIAL COMMITTEES

RUTH A. GAY. Oklahoma City, President COMMITTEE ON CHURCH WORK
JENCE O. FUQUAY, Chandler, First Vice Pres. . h. MRS. H. L. CLOUD, Wellston
WINNIE O. BRANSTETTER, Second Vice Pres. LITERATURE

MRS. ROSWELL JOHNSON. Bartlesville, Third Vice Pres. MRS. DORA KIRKPATRICK
JESSE NOURSE. Enid, Recording Sec’y. PRESS WORK

ADELIA C. STEPHENS. Oklahoma Corresponding Sec’y. JANET C. KROECK

KATE H. BIGGERS. Marlow, Treas. CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT

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Vy dear Kiss Clay:-

I have received your kind favor of March 15
and thank you for the same.

I am obliged to go to Atlanta next week, leaving
Monday morning. I return from Frankfort at midwnight Sunday the
19th and leave here for Frankfort on Saturday afternoon, the 18th.
I cannot tell when I shall be able to return from Atlanta except
that I must be in Covington Sunday after next, Karch 26. So that
I fear I shall not be able to have a conference with you until week
after next.

With reference to the Constitution and Canons
of the Church, I do not find that there is anything in the letter
that requires,in our Diocesan Canon covering eligibility to the
Diocesan Council, the word, "male". There are however those who
hold with reference to the spirit and significance of the Constitua
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are based upon the idea of male members only in the various Diocesan
Councils and Conventions. I am.not now stating my own views with
reference to the matter one way or the other, but simply reporting

to you the result of my inquiries so far as this point is concerned.

So far as the petition is concerned I do not feel

that I can consistently advise you upon that matter,lest I should
appear to favor the object in view. I am_not at all prepared to
do that. I am frank to say to you that I do not believe that the

time is ripe for our Council to take this action at this time. If

 

 necessary I wish to feel that I am at liberty to oppose the pro~
position which your petition will lay before the Council. With
that thorough understanding of my position I may say that I should
think that the petition would naturally come from those who sympa—
thize with your views and unite with you in desiring the enactment
which you request from the Council. Since you have asked me the
question I would say that I believe it would be wiser for the
petition to come from individual women. To make it representative
of congregations or of Church Societies would pﬁxcipitate debate
and probable dissension in them. How would it do to introduce into
the programme for the Council such a clause as this for example,'—-
at such and such an hour make provision specifically in the pro—
gramme for "memorials and petitions" and allow half an hour for
that order of the day. I do not mean to say that the Council would
be limited to that half hour for disposition of the matter. I
promisedyou that you should have opportunity specifically to
present this petition in person and I promised you that I should
insist upon the Diocesan Council giving it respectful consideration
as Opposed merely to pigeonrholing it or indefinitely postponing
it. Of course you understand that when I say"insist" I mean merely
that I shall urge. The Council of course is not the creature of
the hishop. Fe is its President, and all that I can undertake is
to exercise the parliamentary rights of a presiding officer. My
idea would he that you should appear in person at the hour proposed.
The petition need not he signed by anybody but yourself. In many
respects it would be preferable to heme it so. The circulation of a
petition through the Dioce‘a, as I remember remarking to you one

Sunday evening in the Cathedra17is likely to promote dissenSdon

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in the Diocese. I am thoroughly convinced that there women in
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the Diocese decidedly opposed to the proposition to make women eligi-

 

 ble to the Diocesan Council. On the afternoon of Epiphany there
were women present at the WOman's Auxiliary meeting who were then
opposed to the prOposition. There is a possibility that a counter
petition might be circulated among the women which also would have
to be received by the Diocesan Council. Our Councils are so entire~
1y free from any influence suggestive of legislative lobbying and . ,
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have been so entirely free from the presence even of any persons,
the objects of whose presence is to express a desire for certain
action by the Council, that I should very much deprecate at the
Diocesan Council even so much of that as occirred at the Woman's
Auxiliary meeting on Epiphany. I believe it would injure the cause
8that you desire to present.

To repeat myself, would it seem to you to be in entire
fulfilment of my promise, and would it be entirely in accordance
with your own ideas to have the Committee set apart in its programme
for the Council an half hour in which "Memorials and Betitions"

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would be the order of .he day, you to be present in person at the
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beginning of the half hour and be recﬂéved by the Council and heard
by them with such arguments in support of your petition as you are
disposed to lay before the Council? If the Council could diSpose
of the Hatter within that half hour, well and good; but it would be
entirely within the province of the Council to make the subject the
special order for discussion at some subsequent hour so as to give
the fullest time necessary to the fair and respectful disposal of
the proposition.

Whether we shall print the programme only in the Diocesan
News or have leaflets in addition containing the programme has not

yet been decided upon.

Now, my dear hiss Clay, I trust that the arrangement I am

making will seem to you entirely fair and sufficient, not only a

 

 fulfillment of my promise, but that impartial position which I wish

always to take without respect to the direction in which my summa—
thies or my opinions or even my,“ judgment may run.
Sincerely yours,

all ,,

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March 27th, IQII.
Miss Jean Gordon,
new Orleans, La,a
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