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 THE INTERNATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ALLIANCE 817 of Finland the preceding May. The delegates from Norway received a message from the Prime Minister that it was the in- tention of the Parliament to enlarge the Municipal franchise which women had possessed since 1901. Designs for a permanent badge were submitted by several countries and the majority vote was in favor of the one designed by Mrs. Pedersen-Dan of Denmark, the figure of a woman holding the scales of justice with a rising sun in the background and the Latin words Jus Suffragii. It was decided to publish a monthly paper under the name of Jus Suffragii and in the Knglish language. Afterwards Miss Martina G. Kramers was apiK>intcd editor and the paper was issued from Rotterdam. The invitation was accepted to hold an executive meeting and con- ference in Amsterdam in 1908, as a new constitution was about to be made for The Netherlands and there would be a strong effort to have it include woman suffrage. Mrs. Catt's closing words to the delegates were to encourage agitation, education and organization in their countries. "The enfranchisement of women is as certain to come as the sun is sure to rise tomorrow," she said. "The time must depend on political conditions and the energy and intelligence with which our movement is conducted." Thus ended happily and auspi- ciously the first Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. FOURTH CONFERENCE OF THE ALLIANCE. The Executive Meeting and Fourth Conference of the Inter- mal Woman Suffrage Alliance was held in Amsterdam, June 15-20, 1908, in the spacious and handsome Concert Hall, in <>nse to the Call of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president, and Mrs. Rachel Foster Avery, secretary. No one lio was present r forget this meeting in the most fascinating of countries. ith every detail of its six days' .sessions carefully planned and nothing left undone for the comfort and entertainment of tin- ton ho had come from most of the countries of Kumpe. from Canada, the t T nitc<l States and far-away Australia and Ne d. The follo .1 ii HIM the