Show elect officers DS jan 23 special at this mornings session of the annual convention of the national comans womans association the report of the committee on federal suffrage was presented by ex chairman sarah clay bendott of kentucky it baid at v our last annual convention in washington city the members of our national american woman buff raae association adopted a ic solution to petition congress to secure to the women of this nation by appropriate legislation the full rights of citizenship guaranteed to them by the constitution of the united states and in compliance with this resolution the chairman of the federal suffrage committee ha written a memorial and had it presented to congress in behalf of the members of our national association the memorial petitions congress to protect the white and black women citizens of the united states with its men against the statutes of the states in the right to vote for members af congress and elector of the president and vice president of the united states by a law made in pursuance of the first section of the lath amendment of the Fei leral constitution in accordance with the combined minor vs happersett and carbaugh Var baugh decisions of the judges of the supreme court of the united states the report of the legislative committee was presented by mra lillie deavereaux Dav ereaux blake of new york it said the committee reports that a delegation went to the republican convention at st louis and secured a klauk favoring equal for equal work it also reports that the amendment to the federal constitution which provides for woman suffrage is pending in the senate in delaware iowa mon tana new york and probably in are now being or wiil be arced either before constitutional conventions or before the legislatures of those states new jersey has a constitutional amendment pro for school suffrage for women in nearly all the states where the legislature is in session this year bills for the benella of women will be intro the election of officers took place shortly before the noon receda elizabeth cady blanton Bt anton of new york waa unanimously reelected re elected honorary pent and the venerable susan 13 ao idony of rochester X Y president the remainder of the board of officers were also reelected re elected |