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President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CA'I‘T,

2008 American Tract Society Building, New York
Vice-PreSIdent-at—Large, Rev. ANNA H SHAW

18"0 Diamond Street, Philadelphia. Pa
Corresponding Secretary, RACHFL FhoER AVERY

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Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON

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jLAURA CLAY, Lexington Ky

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returning here in April to finish it.
ite, Miss Anthony hopes, as -. , ‘ : n, that she will be
Judgment on the UQTK. She is beginning to write
bending every energy toward garnering sufficient
to open the Suffrage Bazar December 3. The physician has pcsim

forbidFeL her to do this, hut her desire to appear once more in

public with her oli cowlaborer, Mrs. Stanton, 3 .. ;.Ji *1, doubtless

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 National-American Woman Suffrage Association.

MEMBER NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN.

Honorary President. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON. 250 West 94th Street. New York.
Honorary President, SUSAN B. ANTHONY. 17 Madison Street. Rochester, N. Y.

President, CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT.
2008 American Tract Society Building, New York.

Vice-Preside"t—at-Large, Rev. ANNA H. SHAW.
1830 Diamond Street. Philadelphia. Pa.

Corresponding Secretary, RACHEL FOSTER AVERY.
Philadelphia, Pa.

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS,

OFFICE OF HONORARY PRESIDENT.

f‘l ay .

should have acknowledged the

ago; but as you said in your letter

a three weeks trip, I did not do it

to slip by. I have had it

thony and I are very much pleased

Know that it is the one

sent, that did not require a single

etc. It has been a common thing f

chapter into

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cases nothing but a

which to prepare the chapter'myself.

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Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACKWELL.
3 Park Street. Boston. Mass.

Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON.
Warren. Ohio.

LAURA CLAY, Lexington. Ky

A'lditors’ ICATHARINE WAUGH MCCUyLLOCH The Rookery. Chicago. Ill.

2008 AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY BUILDING, NEW YORK.

ROCHESTER, N. Y.,
April

receipt of your Kentucky

that you were Just about

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and both Miss An—

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Member National Council of Women

Honorary President, SUS; N B. ANTHONY, 17 Madison Street, Rochester, N. Y.

President. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT, Recording Secretary, ALICE STONE BLACK\VELL,
16!) Bay 31$t St.. Bensonhurst, N. Y. 3 Park Street, Boston, Mass.

Vice-President-at-Large, REV. ANNA H. SHAW, Treasurer, HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON,
7443 Devon Street, Mt. Airy. Philadelphia. Pa. Warren, Ohio.

Corresponding Secretary. KATE M. GORDON,

_i LAURA CLAY, Lexington, Ky.
1500 Prytania Street, New Orleans, La.

)MARY J. COGGESHALL,
55! Seventh Street, Des Moines. Iowa.

NATIONAL PRESS COMMITTEE, ELNORA BABCOCK. DUNKIRK. N. V.

Auditors

NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, WARREN, OHIO.
OFFICE OF HONORARY PRESIDENT,17 MADISON ST.. ROCHESTER, N. Y.

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fy mind is much relieved by your letter of the 8th,

just received. For though I wrote you that I was still working on our
"brief", I have been so busy in Trankfort that I had done nothing more,
and I am now in the claws of "the grip”, and am unable to do work of any
kind. If I am well enough, I expect to go to Des *oines to the Kiss)
Vay.?uffrage Conference, and give a paper on the constitutionality of
our bill, which'will be pretty much what I would have tr tten for you,
I hope I shall see you at Des Ioines. I am most interested in that you
tell me of the situation in "ashington;— I see little ebéut it except what
appears in the ”oman's Journal. Under such circumstances I think it is well
that the suffragists should meet in non—organization consultat on like
these conferences.

I thank cu for the paper and the clippings yUuhave sent me. If I
felt better I would like to write you longer about the situation in
Kentucky; but as it is, I must close, with thanks for your continued inter—

est in our bill. I rely greatly on your judgment in this matter, and shall

hope to consult with you in Des Hoines.

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BRANCH OF INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE AND OF NATIONAL COUNCIL OF WOMEN

HONORARY PRESIDENT
DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW

PRESIDENT 3RD VICE'PRESIDENT RECORDING SECRETARY
MRS. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT MISS ESTHER G. OGDEN MRS. THOMAS JEFFERSON SMITH
LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY
IST VICE-PRESIDENT TREASURER

MRS. HENRY WADE ROGERS
MRS. WALTER MCNAB MILLER MISS HELOISE MEYER

1626 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE. WASHINGTON. D. c

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CORRESPONDING SECRETARY
2ND VICE-PRESIDENT

MRS. FRANK J. SHULER 2“” ““3”“
MRS. STANLEY MCCORMICK MRS. PATTIE RUFFNER JACOBS

ALTAMONT ROAD. BIRMINGHAM. ALA.

NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS cumwm

171 MADISON AVENUE. NEW YORK 17‘] MADISON AVENUE MRS. WALTER McNAB MILLER
PRESIDENT NEW YORK HEADQUARTERS

MIss ESTHER G. OGDEN TELEPHONE. 4818 MURRAY HILL 1626 RHODE ISLAND AVENUE. WASHINGTON, D. c

NATIONAL PRESS COMMITTEE Washingt on Headquarters,
CHAIRMAN

MRS. IDA HUSTED HARPER . . "
February 7, 1917.
1’1“” 139

My dear Miss Clay;

I am not answering your letter imnediately in order to make you indebted to me

again but only because it has several points that I think you would like to have answered.

In the fire place, all work for suffrage in the present Congress was abandoned by the

National Association as soon as the break with Germany occurred, as it Was u terly useless

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to expect any attention. In a way it was a good excuse as the*e was not a particle of

hope for theALmendment in either house. In all probability the Poindexter, the Porto Rican,

the Danish Islands and other bills in which we are specially inter sted are shelved for this

session. I do not know how far along Ehe Prohibitionists will . ' t' heir Federal Amend—
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ment, but I thin! noH very far. The amendment for prohibition the District may come to

a vote.

If there is an extra session, we will of course go to work on that, but we doubt

if there is one. There is no use in hoping that the National Association will give up the
Federal Amendment. Mrs. Catt expects to use the Leslie fund largely for this purpose. The

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Association was formed in 1869 to get this amendment and there is no more reason for giVing \*

it up now thar\at any time during the half century. I cannot understand how you can oppose

it as you do when you see the defeats that we have in State after State and you know the many

 

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and corrupt influences that are used against us. You cannot believe that the amendment if
submitted now~in Kentucky could be carried and yet you would be prohibited from trying again
for five years. then we do manage to Carry a State, we are counted outyes we have been six
or eight times and if we must wait for the State by State method, we will all be dead a long

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Even the bill for Presidential suffrage has just been voted down in Tennessee and
I will make the prophecy that it will not be curried in one Southern State, notwithstanding
the plank in the National Democretic platform. I doubt if it is Carried in another Northern
State. It only went through North deota because they have a big progressive movement there
and the reform party has got control of the Legislature; If just one Souths n State should
even so much as submit the amendment there might be some excuse for the opposition of Southern_
women to the Federal, but I think you will find that this winter will be merely a repetition
of past winters and not a Southern State will submit it. Then their women will have to wait
two years longer for another chance. The women of the whole country are rallying to the
support of the Federal Amendment and we may as well accept the fact that it never will be
dropped by the National. I do not think, however, that it will be submitted by the incoming

Congress, but I do believe that President Wilson will recommend it before the end of his

second term/ Md, [AWL/t M ‘64» W,

You know by this time that Ere. Catt has Called an emergency conference of the
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executive council, presidents of the States, chairmen of committees, etc., to meet here
February 23. Its primary purpose, as Ste ed, is to consider the action of the Association
in case of fer, but she is particularly anxious to have the council act in regard to the
States that are determined to have amendment campaigns when they are not ready for them.
The Oklahoma matter will come up then and/if it seems best’I am sure Mrs. Catt will help
that cempaign, but us it seems to be wholly a Democratic measure, she may decide to let that
party conduct it. I have not talked-with her on the subject as she is very seldom here.

Just now she has gone to Maine. we feel very hopeful indeed of carrying that State. As

 

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you know the amendment has again been submitted in horth Dakota and this new p