Show AT COLOR QUESTION AND VIRTUALLY SETTLE PRESIDENCY I Seductive Shade of Los Angeles Palms Lures Lures' Them From Serious Business of Convention LOS ANGELES May The second day of the convention emphasizes emphasizes em em- two t-o Important points important points In that the race f fr oT r the presidency and the color color color col col- or question promise to be mild mUd issues The biennial has a fiesta flavor in fact and delegates instead of being serious all the time e are content to sit under the palms and swap stories Neither candidate for the first office is making an active campaign but it looks today as if Mrs Denison would get the presidency with Mrs Burdette of California and Mrs Buchwalter of or Ohio first and second vice After Alter two years of agitation the color question is quiescent Some of the leaders expressed the belief it will wUl not come before the convention at all It Itis ItIs Itis is not scheduled at any rate though itIs itis it itIs Is likely some delegate will attempt to introduce It at the first occasion on Monday 1 The Massachusetts crowd is not aggressive on the subject and of course the South is glad enough that it be left alone This situation has precipitated precipitated precipitated pre pre- a a. report that Mrs Ruffin of or Boston being apprised of the color apathy Is sending on a representative If this is so said Mrs Irs Anna D. D West Vest a prominent Boston delegate Massachusetts knows or has nothing to do with it The business session at Simpson Simps-on auditorium opened this morning with a a. brilliant array of women on the rostrum rostrum rostrum ros ros- trum including Mrs Alice Allce Bradford Wiles of Chicago who has figured so conspicuously in the recent unpleasantness unpleasantness unpleasantness in the Chicago Chicag Womans Woman's club and whom Mrs Lowe has has' nored honored by asking her to sit on the p platform during the convention This meeting was given to Important reports and greeting from foreign clubs Color Question Reviewed Miss Emma A. A Fox recording secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary in her report reviewed the color question as follows The application of the New Era club of Boston a club composed largely of Continued on l Page age 6 Shy Continued from pa Page e 1 1 I women of the negro race has caused so 0 much agitation al and amid there Is so much misunderstanding in regard to the action action acton ac ac- ac- ac tion ton of the board upon the application that a statement of the facts in the case seems due to t the fed federation raton IThe The application was wa presented to the pre president ident of the general federation before before before be be- fore the fifth bien biennial lal at a time when a club could only be admitted by a majority majority ma ma- vote of the board of directors The dues were sent to the treasurer and the president of the club was in itt Milwaukee expecting to be seated in inthe the convention The application was presented presented presented pre pre- to the board at Its is meeting in Milwaukee waukee 1 June 4 1900 and a motion moton was made that the club be admitted to membership Afraid id of Pr Precedent The he fact tact that the admission of such sucha a club cub would be establishing a precedent precedent prece prece- dent made the board unwilling t tot to act Without carefully considering the question ques ques- tion flon ton and a motion moton to lay ay on the table was made and carried The delegates at atthe the fifth biennial understood that the board had neither neither voted to admit the Club nor to refuse admission but the impression on went abroad that the board had voted upon the application and had refused admission to the club No hardship was imposed upon the member who represented the New Era club cub by the f failure lure ot of the board to act upon the application as she was entitled entitled en en- titled to a se seat r i li the convention in another capac capacity ty Resolutions Received During the week of the fifth biennial and the two years that ha e have elapsed since that tm time tim the board has received many comm communications n beang bearing upon this question queston The communications have for the n most most- st part been resolutions passed by the cubs clubs and the federations expressing their views on the question queston and include at lea least t one expression of confidence that the wisdom and moderation moderation mode mode- ration which have directed moe- moe raton the administration admin admin- i it of the general f federation Inthe in inthe t the the ue past will wi continue e to control its fu fu- fu ture These communications are a part of the proceedings proceedings-Of ot the board and will be preserved in the archives archives' which wi make up the history of the general f fed fed- d- d Adjourned for Fi Fiesta sta Mrs Denis Denis Denis' Denison first ui vice-president vice called caled the convention to order today with most moat of the delegates present There was an evident desire on the theart part art of the women to carry carryout out the mme without 5 t delay so that that they they free tree to enjoy the floral pa parade na- na rade rade- The first firt t report ItO TO be made was r report that of the bi biennial local board beard by Mrs wa J James mes me Evans Evans Cowles ims was as fol lot lowed by the l ort of the recording secretary tary Miss Fox corresponding sec sec- secretary sec sec- Mrs rs Kendrick treasurer Mrs Van Vechten auditor auditor- Mrs Noyes At 11 1 o'clock the convention adjourned to witness winess the flora 1 parade At this afternoons afternoon's Session reports of Sta State t e presidents presidents' vee vere read |