The Woman's Tribune

NEW JERSEY.

The New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association held a special meeting on April 2d. in Newark. Mrs. Florence Howe Hall, presiding, Mrs. Ella B. Carter acting secretary pro tem. A graphic report of the Atlanta Convention was read by Miss Louise Watts, one of the delegates from New Jersey. The Corresponding Secretary, Dr. Mary D. Hussey, reported for the Executive Committee on the petition to the Legislature for full suffrage. New Jersey women have a stronger claim to the ballot than those of other States, because they voted for 31 years until the Legislature unconstitutionally denied them the exercise of the franchise in 1807. The petition though only circulated about a week, received the signatures of over a thousand persons. The State Grange signed it by its officers. But it was presented so late in the session that the Legislature took no action upon it. The President stated that the bill permitting women to practice law in the State had passed. Miss Mary Philbrook secured the names of 300 lawyers to a petition in favor of it. As there had been several changes made in the law regarding the voting of women at school meetings, it was voted that a leaflet on the subject be prepared for circulation. Mrs. H. L. Coolidge, and Mrs D. W. Pond, chairmen of the Committees on School Suffrage and on Distribution of Literature, were appointed to prepare it. A new standing committee was formed on the Progress of the Cause, to report at each meeting of the Association. Mrs. Hester M. Poole, of Metuchen, chairman: Mrs. W. A. Huston, Orange, and Mrs. E. S. Hunt, Newark, were elected to serve on it. Dr. Hussey urged members to secure the services of Mrs. Annie L. Diggs as a speaker while she was in the State, and to plan to hold a succession of inexpensive parlor meetings.