Rescinded Resolutions
| Year | Resolution |
Reason for Rescinding |
| 1897 | Founding of a National Training School for Women |
Relevance |
| 1897 | Influence Congress to raise age of protection of girls to eighteen years |
Relevance |
| 1899 | Request that Congress repudiate result of November election in Utah (expelling polygamist Brigham Roberts) |
Relevance |
| 1899 | Training for girls in the theory and practice of the kindergarten and domestic science |
Relevance |
| 1899 | Establishment of Committee on Household Economics to petition Congress for the establishment of a National Health Bureau |
Accomplished - Health & Human Services |
| 1899 | Mothers’ Clubs make special study of punishments and rewards in their relation to child training |
Relevance |
| 1902 | Request that the governor of Missouri make an appropriation to assist in maintaining a model nursery at St. Louis exposition |
Accomplished |
| 1906 | Urges Senate to report on Smoot case, declare his seat vacant; Constitutional amendment be enacted giving the Federal Government power to deal with polygamy |
Relevance |
| 1910 | Endorse the undertakings of the National Committee on censoring and recommend that local organizations of mothers cooperate with this committee |
Relevance |
| 1910 | Thanks to Denver for hospitality |
Relevance |
| 1912 | Oregon Congress requested to investigate and deal with matter of actions of Mrs. H.Hawkes,Vice-Pres.Of Oregon Congress |
Relevance |
| 1915 | Emergency Schools - recommends that each state take necessary steps to provide adequately for the education of all children in construction camps operated by Reclamation Service |
Relevance |
| 1918 | Ask President Wilson to answer Germanic proposals to legalize polygamy by placing his approval on the anti-polygamy amendment before Congress |
Relevance |
| 1920 | Help to children of Austria suffering from tuberculosis and starvation |
Relevance |
| 1920 | Give more thoughtful consideration to the kind of motion pictures children see |
Current position urges use of ratings systems |
| 1921 | Urge Congress to take steps towards securing District of Columbia institution for the feeble minded and the establishment of a court of domestic relations, including a juvenile court |
Accomplished |
| 1922 | Resolution of Courtesy - Thanks to city of Tacoma and state ofWashington |
Relevance |
| 1923 | Work for hot lunches and supervision during noon hour at rural schools |
Accomplished - Free and Reduced Lunch Program |
| 1923 | Protest the practice of filming the classics |
Relevance |
| 1925 | Condemnation of commercialized Round-Up and Rodeo |
Relevance |
| 1925 | Police Women - endorsement of International Association of Policewomen, support of Senate Bill 4308, making permanent Women’s Bureau of Metropolitan Police Department of DC |
Relevance |
| 1927 | Separate classification of mail matter for books and flat rate for mailing of books to all parts of US (Senate Bill 5641) |
Accomplished |
| 1931 | Prohibition and Narcotics - Eighteenth amendment is national benefit in curtailing the distribution and use of alcoholic beverages, support education of youths in homes and schools as to the deleterious effects of alcoholic beverages and narcotics upon health, working ability and morale |
1) The 18th amendment was repealed by the 21st amendment. 2) Education on alcohol and narcotics is covered by more recent resolutions. |
| 1931 | A Federal Department of Education - support movement to create Federal Department of Education with a Secretary in the President’s Cabinet |
Accomplished |
| 1933 | Federal Agencies - Belief in value of US Office of Education, the Children’s Bureau, the Bureau of Home Economics; urge that these Federal Research Bureaus be maintained at a high degree of efficiency and usefulness |
Relevance - two of the three agencies no longer exist |
