NAWSA Subject File Congressional Committees MRS. MEDILL MCCORMICK CHAIRMAN TELEPHONE MAIN 3597 OFFICE National Congressional Committee OF THE National American Woman Suffrage Association MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. January 26, 1914 Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City. My dear Mrs. Dennett:- Please pardon me for not writing earlier an acceptance of my appointment on this committee by the National Board. I appreciate the honor very much and trust that I may be of real service to our organization. For the last week Mrs. McCormick, Mrs. Booth and myself have put in every minute of the day at the Capitol; the situation there is urgent, and I think most hopeful of good results. As I think I wrote Doctor Shaw before, the topsoil has not been scratched; there will be nothing further done by way of action from the Committee or on the floor until we give the word, and we have been trying so hard to get the situation in the best possible shape that we have all seriously neglected our sorrespondence. There is a long story to tell you; I consider that this is an important period in the life of our national association. I think now we are going to have to recognize that an attempt will be made - more or less successful - to organize another national society under militant tactics: I am enclosing to you an editorial from the Post, the most influential paper here. Mrs. McCormick is spending this afternoon negotiating for a publicity man, something we very, very seriously need. Will you please give Doctor Shaw a word of personal greeting from me. An invitation has been extended to Mrs. McCormick to address the Women's Republican Club in New York February 12; she cannot be there at that time, but has offered me as a substitute, so it is possible that I may have an opportunity for closer acquaintance with you then. Yours most sincerely, Antoinette Funk AF-LA Enclosure WOMEN QUIT UNION Wash. Post Fifteen Fair Vote-Seekers Follow Mrs. MacLennan. Jan. 26 - 14 MRS. BELMONT TO RESCUE Large Checks Solace the Deserted Suffrage Leaders. Seceders Adopt Resolution Denouncing Political Purpose of Miss Paul and Her Allies - Mrs. McCormick Welcomes Them Into Association With Congressional Committee and Promises to Aid New Organization - Miss Burns' Views. Secession has thinned the ranks of the Congressional Union for Woman's Suffrage, a rival organization having been instituted and the tactics of the union denounced in resolutions adopted censuring the avowed purpose to defeat members of Congress in campaigns for re-election in retaliation of the Democratic party's failure to pass equal suffrage legislation. This revolt was led by Mrs. Russell Malcolm MacLennan, and fifteen dissenters from the union answered her call to a meeting in the Munsey building yesterday afternoon. Union Gains Wealthy Allies. But the union last night received two new allies that more than offset for the time being at least the disaffection of Mrs. MacLennan's followers. Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, of New York, swung her prestige and a $5,000 contribution to the union, and Mrs. Ella S. Stewart, past president of the Illinois Equal Suffrage Association, also promised her active support and a large contribution for campaign purposes. This resolution, presented by Dr. Sarah Siewers, was adopted by the rival convention: "Resolved, That it is the sense of this meeting that we condemn the partisan policy of the Congressional Union for Woman's Suffrage, and indorse the nonpartisan policy that the National Woman's Suffrage Association has always maintained." A committee consisting of Mrs. John O. Moque, Mrs. L. H. Engle, Dr. Siewers, Mrs. G. A. Mosshart, Mrs. Edwin C. Reid, and Mrs. MacLennan was appointed to formulate plans for organization of the new branch. At a subsequent meeting the committee decided to confer Wednesday night at 7:30 o'clock in the Interstate Clubs' headquarters, 1306 G street northwest. Friends of Union at Meeting. Although there were no dissenting votes when the resolution was passed, seven members of the Congressional Union, who declined to give their names, stated that they were not in sympathy with the action, and that they attended [?] learn Among those present at the meeting were Mrs. Medill McCormick, chairman of the national congressional committee; Mrs. Antoinette Funk, a member of that committee; Mrs. Sherman Booth, also a member; Mrs. Russell M. MacLennan; Miss L. N. Douglas, Mrs. W. H. Weed, chairman of the legislative committee, of Norwalk, Conn.; Mrs. E. S. Tenney, Mrs. Edwin C. Reed, Mrs. A Darsch, and Mrs. F. Ehling. Mrs. McCormick Attacks "Autocracy." Mrs. McCormick pledged the support of the national congressional committee to the new organization, and though paying tribute to the work of Miss Lucy Burns and Miss Alice Paul, of the Congressional Union, she strongly condemned the policy and government of that organization, and concluded by saying: "We must decide whether we shall be members of the Congressional Union or of the National Woman Suffrage Association; whether we are for an autocratic or democratic organization." One of the serious dangers of belonging to the Congressional Union, Mrs. MacLennan contended, was the fact that those women in the government departments, since that organization was now avowedly a political organization, were in danger of violating the civil service rule prohibiting political activity among the clerks. Where They Put Responsibility. Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs yesterday issued a statement regarding the differences of the two sets of suffrage workers, and also from the union came a statement of that organization's purposes from Miss Lucy Burns, who said: "The policy of the Congressional Union is to ask of the party in power in Congress the passage of a constitutional amendment enfranchising women, and to hold that party responsible for its answer to the request. This policy is entirely nonpartisan, in that it applies with perfect impartiality to all political parties. If the Republicans were in power we would regard them as responsible for the enfranchisement of women. The Congressional Union cannot make it too clear that it is not opposed to any party. We are asking the Democrats to help us and we are awaiting their answer." Crowd Hears Dr. Walker. Dr. Mary Walker addressed several hundred persons yesterday afternoon in the Leader Theater, on Ninth street, on "The Crowning Constitutional Argument for Women." d'anaires at Mexico City, with Mrs. [?sy] and their son. TRIBUTE TO CAPT. CHANCEY House Special Committee to Attend Funeral This Afternoon. Pages and Former Pages to the Number of 200 Will March Behind Body to the Grave. With a delegation of seven members of the national House of Representatives, of which body he had been a faithful employe for more than 58 years, in attendance, and with about 200 pages and former pages marching, the funeral of Capt. John Chancey, aged 84, will be conducted this afternoon by the Association of Oldest Inhabitants at 2:30 from his home, 458 M street northwest. Burial will be in Congressional Cemetery. A resolution offered by Representative Austin, of Tennessee, read into the Congressional Record a tribute to the services that the veteran employe had given the House, and Speaker Clark named the following to represent the House at the funeral: Richard W. Austin, Tennessee; J. Fred C. Talbott, Maryland; Sereno E. Payne, New York; William A. Jones, Virginia; Richard Bartholdt, Missouri; James Lloyd, Missouri, and Michael E. Burke, Wisconsin. the pages of Congress into the National Fraternity of Pages, and there are more than 3,000 pages who have seen service under him. Since his death a guard of honor has been kept by the pages' fraternity at the bier, the guard today being Christian Eckloff and Charles S. Sloane, the two oldest former pages in the District. The home is crowded with floral tributes. MANY SEE TABLET TO BUTT. Few Had Known of Unveiling of Titanic Memorial Week Ago. Many personal friends and admirers of Maj. Archibald W. butt, U. S. A., military aide to former President Taft, who lost his life in the Titanic disaster, yesterday viewed the memorial tablet, which has just been unveiled in the south cloister of Bethlehem chapel, in the crypt of the new SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, which is under construction. The tablet is a bronze bas-relief, with a medallion portrait of Maj. Butt, draped with flags, at the top. It measures three feet six inches by five feet six inches. It was designed by George T. Brewster, of New York, a famous sculptor, and carries the following inscription: TO THE MEMORY OF ARCHIBALD W. BUTT, MAJOR, U. S. A., MILITARY AIDE TO THE PRESIDENT. HE LOST HIS LIFE APRIL 15, 1912, WHEN THE BRITISH STEAMSHIP TITANIC SANK AND THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN WERE SAVED, OF HIM PRESIDENT TAFT SAID: "THE CHIEF TRAITS OF HIS CHARACTER WERE LOYALTY TO HIS IDEAL, HIS CLOTH, AND HIS FRIENDS. HIS CHARACTER WAS A SIMPLE ONE. HE WAS INCAPABLE OF INTRIGUE OR INSINCERITY. HE WAS GENTLE AND CONSIDERATE TO EVERY ONE AND A SOLDIER EVERY INCH OF HIM." This tablet is to be placed in the cathedral proper, when the building is completed in about three years. The memorial is the gift of former President Taft, Miss Mabel Boardman, and other personal friends of Maj. Butt. It was uncovered a week ago, with only Miss Boardman, her mother, Mrs. W. J. Boardman, and the pastor of the Cathedral present. Few knew until yesterday that it had been temporarily placed in the chapel. It eventually will be placed in that section of the cathedral which is to be devoted to soldiers. DANCING TANGO; [M] MUSIC FOR THEM The "dance" took place in the large cage at the south end of the monkey brown Ca- Three Democrats Must Quit Senate Say Suffragists Candidates for Re-election i n Arizona, Colorado, and Oregon, Where Women Have Vote, Will Be Opposed "Prefer not to Destroy President Wilson." Mrs. Dorr Balames Caucus Rule and Will War Even on Democrats Favoring Suffrage. (Special to The World.) Philadelphia, Feb. 15. -Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr, editor of the Suffragist, the organ of the "insurgent suffragettes." which recently criticised the policy of the National Association of Woman Suffrage, to-day said women in suffrage States will organize to defeat Democratic Senators who have opposed their cause and who will be candidates for re-election next fall. These are: Marcus Aurelius Smith of Arizona. Charle Spaulding Thomas of Colorado. They are the only Democratic Senators in the ten suffrage States who will come up for re-election this year. "The Democratic Party is in complete control," said Mrs. Dorr. "It dominates the country. The Democratic party is dominated by the caucus. Whatever the caucus favors the men will vote for, though they may be opposed to the measure in principle. "The caucus has refused to indorse the creation of a committee on suffrage, although they have committees on waste paper and stationery. the Democrats have a voting majority of only six in the Senate, and if we can defeat several Democrats for re-election in the Senatorial elections that are coming, we will paralyze the Democratic programme and the caucus will see a new light. "I prefer not to destroy President Wilson. I like him. I think he is all right. But they won't give us the ballot until we force them to do it. It's a shame to go out and defeat Democratic Senators who have fought for us, but we will have to do it. "We will not make our campaign exclusively in the suffrage States, but if we defeat a man hostile to suffrage in other States we will not be given the credit for it. If a man is defeated for re-election in one of the suffrage es when we oppose him the only usion that will be drawn is that omen have done it." said the National Association also participate in a nation- at Washington MRS. MEDILL McCORMICK CHAIRMAN TELEPHONE MAIN 3597 OFFICE National Congressional Committee OF THE National American Woman Suffrage Association MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. February 16, 1914. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City. My dear Doctor Shaw:- Since writing you this morning I have read the enclosed clipping from the editor of the "Suffragist", the official organ of the Congressional Union. Again a situation has arisen in which there is no time to take counsel of the National Board, and I have given to the press the enclosed statement. Senator Thomas is the senior Senator from Colorado, the chairman of the Woman Suffrage Committee, the strongest, wisest and most devoted friend that we have in the Senate. He has labored for us early and late. You of course remember that he elected with considerable difficulty, that his margin of preference is probably narrowing his State, so this friend has been chosen as announced by them, for slaughter. Senator Smith of Arizona is a colleague of Senator Ashurst, and is working manfully for our measure. He has tendered us his good offices and his services and we have taken advantage of both. Senator Chamberlain of Oregon is the friend who rose to our defense when the bill came up for a hearing two or three weeks ago. A titter of amusement ran around the Senate Chamber when it was announced that Senator Ashurst desired to speak on suffrage and Senator Chamberlain arose to his feet and told the Senators there assembled that the suffrage movement was the most important movement of the day and could not be laughed into a solution. In taking this action I believe I am acting in accord with the feeling of the Board. I am not trying to criticise the Union, but to make clear the reasons why we cannot endorse such a policy as this. If even by silence we endorse this action it is utterly useless for us to pursue our work here in Congress. Mrs. Booth and myself have consulted earnestly over this situation and we feel that the very life of our movement is threatened -2- by any such action. I have not forgotten that certain of the Board members criticised what appeared to be an unnecessary criticism of the Union and its methods. Mrs. Booth and I feel that this is not an unnecessary criticism. We believe that it is putting ourselves in a position which makes it possible for us to continue our work in the future. I am sending a copy of this letter to each of the Board members, together with a clipping, which is enclosed to you. I also add draft of the article to be given to the press. Very sincerely yours, [Antoinette ???] AF-LA Enclosures [*new Medical [?]*] Mrs. Medill McCormick Chairman Telephone Main 3597 Office National Congressional Committee Of The National American Woman Suffrage Association Munsey Building Washington, D. C. January 21, 1914. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City. My dear Doctor Shaw:- Your letter received today. Although there is much to be done here I do not feel the least bit discouraged with the outlook; I think we are simply going to have to recognize that the Union will take our organizations for their purpose wherever they can and we must make it our business to speak first and make the situation plain in all the states. There is no question at all about this fact: whether the avowed policy of the Union is responsible for the adverse action of the Rules Committee I could not of course say, but the Democrats here are claiming that it is; it gives them a weapon to beat us with. If we approach a Democratic member, say from Michigan, who is not in his heart favorable to suffrage and point out to him that there is a strong suffrage sentiment in his state and district and ask him to vote with us he is in a position to refuse to do so on the ground that we are seeking the destruction of his party. When we tell him that we, the National, are seeking nothing of the sort, he simply waves us away and says he does not care anything about distinctions in the matter of organization. The vote had no sooner been taken in the Democratic caucus of the Rules Committee than I heard of this from Democratic friends in the House bitterly regretting the situation. It is my firm opinion that five years of good suffrage work has been undone by this action; their parades and meetings are not worth a farthing in the light of the mischief in their policy. I want to acquaint you with what is occurring here in this District. Monday night I received a confidential communication from one of the officers of the District Association that Mrs. Allender was calling a meeting of the officers of -2- the association, and that in all likelihood there would be an attempt to get at least an endorsement for the Union, and possibly for the entire District organization, or at least the Stanton Club, to secede from the National. I went to work quietly with persons I knew to be friends and verified the report and decided to send word to Mrs. Allender that I desired to come to the meeting. Before I had telephoned, however, one of the city editors called me up and repeated in substance what I had already heard; I then called Mrs. Allender to the phone and told her quite frankly what the report was: said that I relied on her sense of honor and justice to see to it that we had a hearing and that I desired to attend the meeting to represent the National Association and make clear their position. She said - rather too hastily and cordially - that I would be most welcome, and then with evident embarrassment explained elaborately that she had met Miss Burns on the street, that Miss Burns had asked her about the meeting and she had told her that she proposed to read your letter and the statement of Mrs. McCormick to her officers, and that she told Miss Burns that she might be there to present her side of the question. Mrs. Booth and I will both attend this evening and I do not apprehend that there will be any adverse action. Mrs. Allender is trying, I think, to be fair, but her ideas of fairness are along somewhat peculiar lines; she is doing everything that she can now to build the Union, and is trying to induce others who are your close friends and strong adherents of the National to take up organization work for the Union and get members in other states. The other women, I mean the little set that have their headquarters on G Street, while they have not much strength, should in my opinion be treated very well by us, because after all they are the nucleus around which we can get organized opposition to the Union in the District. We will have at least three presidents of the five clubs here with us tonight, and then if there is any publicity we can show that four out of the five clubs here stand by the National; the fact that these four are small and unimportant, and that the women are somewhat difficult at times will not appear in the press reports, and it is essential, I think, that there should be no adverse action taken against the National here in the District. Mrs. Booth and I have gone very carefully into the situation at the capitol; we feel that it is a fine and fertile field, and that much may be done up there. I am on very -3- friendly terms with Representative Henry, chairman of the Rules Committee; I learned from him that opposition to the appointment of our committee is localized down in Alabama, and nowhere else. There is a bitter fight on there for the U. S. Senatorship between Underwood and Hobson; Hobson is so strong an advocate for suffrage that Underwood deems it his duty to show the people of his state that there is no sentiment for it at the national capital. Mr. Henry is strongly of the opinion that Mr. Underwood does not understand the extent of suffrage sentiment in the west and middle west, but recognizing that Underwood has aspirations towards the presidency which he hopes will be realized some day in the future, Mr. Henry thinks it will be advisable for me to go personally to see him and lay before him and make him understand the scope and extent of this sentiment, and the value to himself of an attitude of fairness and consideration toward over three million voters. Fifty Democrats in the House have signed the necessary petition asking the Democrats on the Rules Committee to reconsider. Mrs. Booth and I are going to meet this afternoon with Representatives Taylor, of Colorado, Raker, of California, Keating, of Colorado, and decide whether it will be best to push this at this time or to wait until the first action has been somewhat forgotten and get cur plans together for pressure. I am glad, indeed, that Mrs. McCormick is going to be with us tonight. On Friday afternoon there will be a meeting at the home of Mrs. Huntington Wilson, and we are privileged to invite about fifty people; the list so far made up includes many antis; we hope for a good attendance. I find that Miss Anthony's birthday falls on Saturday, and it will be very difficult for us to get a theatre at that time. What would you think of Sunday, the 16th, the event being held in honor of Miss Anthony's natal day? With my most cordial regards, I am, Yours sincerely, Antoinette Funk P. S. I think I told you in my last letter that Mrs. Dodge had decided not to permit the members of her organization debate with me. Mrs. Medill McCormick CHAIRMAN Members MRS. ANTOINETTE FUNK CHICAGO, ILL MRS. HELEN GARDENER WASHINGTON, D.C. MRS. MARY C. BRADFORD DENVER, COLO. MRS. SHERMAN M. BOOTH GLENCOE, ILL. MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE LEXINGTON, KY. MRS. JOHN TUCKER SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. MRS. EDWARD DRIER BROOKLYN, N. Y. Office National Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. TELEPHONE MAIN 3597 Officers National Association DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW President MISS JANE ADDAMS First Vice-President MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE Second Vice-President MRS. CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES Third Vice-President MRS. SUSAN W. FITZGERALD Recording Secretary MRS. MARY WARE DENNETT Corresponding Secretary MRS. STANLEY McCORMICK Treasurer MRS. JAMES LEES LAIDLAW First Auditor MRS. JOSEPH TILTON BOWEN Second Auditor April 29, 1914. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Hotel Quirinal, Rome, Italy. My dear Dr. Shaw:- Your good letter dated the day nefore you left reached me in due season, and I have been saving up to write you at length. By this time you have landed, and we all hope that this change will bring you much by way of strength. I am always slow to advance my own ideas as to a general situation because it may be wrong, but I do not believe that I am over optimistic. Looking at our situation here, considering the details, what is going on in various localities and then taking a broad survey in the fact of all existing conditions I feel perfectly satisfied. We cannot of course consider our own situation without taking stock of what those opposed to us are saying and how much weight they carry. I am going to say now, and I believe that events as they come about in the next six months will bear out my judgment, that the Union has reached its flood-tide, and that that tide has commenced to recede. The reason for that is that they have not built on a sure foundation. In the first place, the underlying structure that is necessary to great organizations is wanting, i. e., numbers; and in the second place, the principle by which they work and have their being is not sound. Red fire, the blare of trumpets and a certain kind of publicity is exceedingly valuable on a spurt, but the great cause of suffrage is Dr. Shaw -2 4-29-14. not going to be carried over the goal by a spurt, not at this time. Perhaps when we reach the very end and there are only a few more laps these things will be valuable aids, but not now. The Union is able to make a great deal of noise, and they have hurt us in some quarters. They have been able to come in and pick up various dissatisfied elements and they have made the most of them. For instance they lately have loudly proclaimed that at the Mississippi Valley Conference delegates from nine out of twelve states condemned us. When people find out, as they will find out, that this is not the fact, that no delegates as such had anything to do with the matter, that certain disgruntled individuals sent telegrams, etc., a lot of ground slips from under the Union. When a woman like Mrs. Glendower Evans makes wholesale charges against people, calling them liars, traitors, etc., the really sound women in a community may be stampeded for a moment, but not for long, and even now the Ways and Means Committee, which as you know gets together the money in Massachusetts, is making a determined stand against that sort of thing. Also they have introduced some democratic measures into their convention, which means that delegates, etc., will be elected at primaries instead of pushed into place by three or four women. It is not necessary for me to go into the Connecticut situation except to say that where they thought they were strongest they have failed to carry the organization; the most they could do would be to split it, and that the sober ones would not stand for. One or two of the little states, Delaware and Maryland, where there is but little general activity, and where the presidents have come directly under the influence and work [with] of Miss Paul and her followers, we have undoubtedly lost out in. In Illinois Mrs. Trout would like to do something but I have no fear of that situation. We can take care of it when the proper time comes. Mrs. Trout, as I have told you before, is a friend to no person, she is looking for her own advancement. She wants to be national president, also above everything else she desires to eliminate Mrs. McCormick and Mrs. Booth, and I think now myself. She has always been against Mrs. McCormick because Ruth is what she regards as a dangerous type of woman, and because she (Ruth) along many lines has opposed her. She hates Mrs. Dr. Shaw -3 4-29-14. Booth; there is some old trouble between them that goes back to Springfield days. I had always been very friendly with Mrs. Trout, made many allowances for her and liked her, but I think I told you that at the last moment I refused to come to the National convention and take the leadership on the floor for Illinois to the end that she go on the National Board, because she did so many things between the time she was elected president the last time and the time of the convention that I could not square my conscience with these matters. I would not come down and oppose her because that would have created trouble in our ranks in Illinois, so I stayed away. Now we are going to have a new constitution, which will be adopted by the Illinois convention before our National convention. I don't care anything about the constitution except in this particular. I am determined that the delegates shall be elected by the convention. I am going to that convention wherever it is held and take the floor for this measure. I have recently seen in Washington one of the strong women on the committee for the drafting of the constitution, and we will arrange to have that done. I think too that a fine thing for us to do would be to commence at an early date to boom some woman like Harriet Taylor Treadwell for a place on the National Board, and when matters come before the convention we can carry it off with a rush. All I ask is a month back in Chicago to go before the various suffrage organizations. I am positive that any effort that Mrs. Trout will make against us I can counteract, and you know she will never come into the open and make any kind of a fight, she will simply do little underhanded things. I have just come from Michigan. We had a perfectly splendid meeting there of eleven counties. I hope you will keep your eye on Mrs. Clark, she is a coming woman, and loyal to the middle of her being. When the Union found that I was going to speak they sent and asked a Mr. McDowell and his wife to attend the conference and asked him to speak for the Anthony Resolution. Mrs. Clark was not going to permit him, but I urged her to do so. His speech was a very good one indeed along constitutional lines, and I hooked right on to the end of it and demonstrated to the audience that we endorsed every single thing he said in favor of the Anthony resolution and that the Shafroth resolution was the open door, the entering wedge. To make a long story short before the meeting was over both Mr. and Mrs. McDowell had come into our bandwagon. Dr. Shaw -4 4-29-14. They invited me to be their guest at Hillsboro, and the last thing they said to me was that before they formed any opinion on any statement of facts that came to them they would write to me. Throughout Illinois, Nebraska and other states the women don't know what the Union is. You know we always hear the yells, but there is no noise made over the strong, silent, study support our friends are giving us, and that is what counts. Now for the immediate situation. The Mexican war has knocked the wind out of the publicity sails, and between you and me I am not sorry. We do not exist by publicity but by work. But the Union has flattened out terrifically. They have been aiming their big guns toward May 9th. I don't know what they expected from it except that it would be a monster demonstration that would astonish the world. Well, the demonstration is not going to be so very big. I have no doubt it will be pretty, the women will be in white, and if the weather is fine a procession of women is always attractive, but it will not be large, no anywhere near so large as the former one, perhaps not half as large. The women over the country are not responding in large numbers, nor coming in large delegations. I think at an outside figure two or three or perhaps five hundred will represent the delegation that will be here outside of those within trolley reach of Washington. There will be no exciting crowd to witness the pageant. Even the usual number of visitors to Washington thin out as the warmer weather comes. For a week or ten days past there has been, I might say absolutely no publicity. Even the suffrage ball got only a paragraph. Just this very minute with a lull in war proceedings owing to the attempt to bring about peace there is a little more doing, but not much, and the papers generally are carrying very little suffrage news. The May 2 demonstrations will get the most. After May 9 I do not see what the objective point of the Union can be, and I am of the opinion that they are not very flushed with money. They have sent out 125,000 circulars, etc., and the amount they have collected must be nearly gone. This is a poor time for money raising. I want to tell you the College League held its election night before last. Elsie Hill and the entire Union bunch were buried. Our friends are in control of the Dr. Shaw -5 4-29-14. situation. Our new committee has a membership of from 125 to 150, which will speedily be increased, so that at the next convention from the District of Columbia we will have the College Suffrage League and the new committee to represent matters here. This week the Suffrage Committee of the Senate will report out the Shafroth Resolution. I am enclosing you a copy of the report they will make. We have decided not to have a hearing before then. This report may be somewhat changed, but not very much, and I want to tell you that I have every reason to believe that we will go through the Judiciary Committee; that if we do we have a plan to turn the tables that I am not going to write about, but will wait and tell you of when the time comes. Mrs. Booth has been ill out in Chicago and has not yet returned. Mrs. McCormick will be here within a few days, I think. Her husband has gone to Mexico as a special war correspondent for the London Times and some other paper here, Collier's Weekly, I think. I am going to Indianapolis on the 6th to speak at a big meeting and at the state convention on the 7th. Spent last Sunday in New York with Mrs. Katharine McCormick. We went over the entire situation very calmly together, and she agreed with me in the conclusions I have written you. We want you to forget everything here and devote yourself to absorbing Italian sunshine into your constitution. It will always be a great gratification and honor to me to have worked with a general like yourself. You are really a militant suffragist, not in a brick-throwing sense, but in the same sense we use the word militant in connection with Christians. Do not think of answering this letter unless there is something you particularly want me to do. I will write you again, but you must not feel that you have to look after correspondence. Upon your return perhaps we can spend a whole half day some time talking things over. Yours with much love, Sincerely, [?] AF-LA Enclosure MRS. MEDILL McCORMICK CHAIRMAN TELEPHONE MAIN 3597 [*Answered FEB 231914 Samples*] OFFICE National Congressional Committee OF THE National American Woman Suffrage Association MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. February 23, 1914. Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett:- 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City. My dear Mrs. Dennett:- Your letter received, also Dr. Shaw's telegram. Of course on the whole the position is the best one, and as I have written the Board we are glad to have strict orders and then there will be no temptation to step aside. We will do everything in our power to get an early vote, though I am not at all certain that we will be able to get our bill in in time for a hearing before March 3. If we don't what do you think we had better do. shall we just let the Union run the bearing or shall we break in with a suffrage speech from somewhere and run the risk of being told that it is not our show? Will you please write me on this point? Mrs. McCormick will be here at noon today and I know she will be much relieved that you have been able to fill Miss Bates' place so satisfactorily; will deliver your message. I think the Gridley joke is on all of us, I am quite sure I have never heard of the man before. Sincerely yours, AF-LA [*Antoinette Funk*] [*MRS. MEDILL McCORMICK CHAIRMAN*] MEMBERS MRS. ANTOINETTE FUNK CHICAGO MRS. HELEN GARDENER WASHINGTON, D.C. MRS. MARY C. BRADFORD DENVER TELEPHONE MAIN 3597 MEMBERS MRS. SHERMAN M. BOOTH GLENCOE, ILL. MRS. DESHA BRECKENRIDGE LEXINGTON, KY. MRS. JOHN TUCKER SAN FRANCISCO MRS. EDWARD DRIER BROOKLYN OFFICE National Congressional Committee OF THE National American Woman Suffrage Association MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. February 26, 1914. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Hotel McAlpin, New York City. My dear Dr. Shaw:- I started to wire you but decided that this letter would reach you in the morning, which would be in time enough. Now the Congressional Union has asked for this hearing before the Judiciary Committee next Tuesday. We can break in there if we want to; I don't know if we could preside. We could probably put our own chairman in the chair for such time as our speakers held the floor, but this hearing will be nothing but a post mortem held in a morgue, nothing will come of it. Resolution No. 2 will not be introduced at that time as I will explain later. I wired Mrs. Breckinridge and asked if she could be here for the hearing, but find she cannot. Of course Mrs. Booth could preside and I could speak, and we could probably get other speakers. Mrs. Gardener is too ill to take part, and after going fully into the situation from every angle we believe it will be a mistake for us to have anything to do with that hearing. We believe that we should let the Union blow its little tin horn and get turned down. This is the judgement of Mrs. Booth, Mrs. Gardener and myself. Between now and the 18th of March there will be a number of arguments made upon Resolution No. 1, and on the 18th it will, we expect, come to a vote - not until then. Immediately that is over we will have the resolution introduced in fine form in both Senate and House and we will get a hearing all our own before the Judiciary Committee. We may not have to ask for a whole day, but will simply take time to speak to the bill and be cross- examined upon it. We can get plenty of publicity and perhaps at the same time or before that time we can have Dr. Shaw--2--2--26--14. a hearing before the Suffrage Committee in the Senate, so we are writing to ask your consent to let us follow this program. I went to the Senate today and found Doris Stevens, of the Union, there. Had quite a long talk with her. She is a sensible sort of person and I get on with her pretty well. She was up to the Senate for the purpose of getting them to postpone the vote on No. 1 until after the parade on the 9th. Senator Ashurst, who is somewhat easy where women are concerned, was all ready to ask the Senate to postpone it until the 10th of April, but I put a spoke in that wheel, you bet, and arranged to have it set for the 18th, as I have told you. It is impossible to get a vote upon it tomorrow, because so many of the Senators wish to speak to it. Senator Shafroth is most enthusiastic about the new measure and will speak to it. He sends special greetings to you and is most anxious to serve you and your organization in any way possible. He was quite determined that the bill should be introduced at once and allowed to lie in the Senate and then parhaps made a substitute when the original bill (No.1) is voted upon. He fears that otherwise it might not get through the committee. We have talked the question over from all sides and agree with your decision that we must have No. 1 voted upon in the Senate before we take up the new matter. Will you please wire us at once upon receipt of this, and we do most earnestly urge you that you consent to pur staying out of that Judiciary hearing on Tuesday next. Miss Stevens asked me today what resolution we intended to present when No. 1 was defeated in the Senate and I told her I did not know. herewith please find a revised copy of the new resclution. We seem to be able to improve it a little every time we tinker with it. With best wishes, Sincerely yours, AF--LA MRS. MEDILL McCORMICK Chairman MEMBERS MRS. ANTOINETTE FUNK Chicago MRS. HELEN GARDENER Washington, D. C. MRS. MARY C. BRADFORD Denver Office National Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association 517 Munsey Building WASHINGTON, D. C. Telephone Main 3597 MEMBERS MRS. SHERMAN M. BOOTH Glencoe, Ill. MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE Lexington, KY MRS. JOHN TUCKER San Francisco MRS. EDWARD DREIER Brooklyn March 4, 1914 Dr. Anna Shaw, Hotel McAlphin, New York City. My dear Dr. Shaw:- This letter is going off to you whether anything else is done or not. I have sent you a telegram, but there is so much to tell by way of news, and please be assured that it is all going satisfactorily and that everything is progressing in the right way. Mrs. McCormick arrived with the baby safely. Her goods and chattels are strung along between here and Chicago but everything will catch up in time, I daresay, and she will be all right. We didn't have any time to make plans for the hearing yesterday morning after her arrival, but we went up there and saw Judge Clayton. It was decided that Mrs. McCormick should preside and I should speak. We told Judge Clayton that owing to the storm and other things we have only one speaker, and he said he was delighted. I did m best and I will say to you quite frankly that we had the attention of the Committee. We had been aching to have the matter settled in the Senate so we could introduce our new resolution. Of course that was out of the question but I spoke to it somewhat. Didn't say a word about a resolution being introduced but asked them to give us some legislation this session and suggested this. They were all ears and asked the most intelligent kind of questions. There was great consternation among the Union people. Not because I am prejudiced, but because it is a fact, I want to tell you that their hearing was - if you will pardon the slang - "punk". They announced in the most threatening way what their policy was, and it was not well received in any quarter. They made the announcement of their antagonism to the Democratic party so pronounced that after a hasty consultation between Mrs. McCormick, Mrs. Booth and myself we decided that Mrs. McCormick should make a statement I cannot tell you what a good impression she made. She was dignified, brief and to the point, and said that this organization -2- ization, with its great membership, was non partisan, etc. They asked how many members the Union had. Mrs. McCormick told them that the Union officers were there - to ask them. They did ask them. Mrs. Benedict arose and said "our membership is not our strong point, but we have enormous financial resources." She was asked what the resources were but refused to say. They are speaking in the Senate this afternoon. I have just left there. Immediately the hearing is closed I will send you the speeches; they are fine. I do hope we will get over a majority vote and think we may. If it loses our second resolution will be introduced at once. I have thought of you and we have talked of you daily. There is a newspaper man waiting on the outside and a Congressman waiting down below who is going to do some work for me. I send you my love. Sincerely yours, Antoinette Funk per L.A AF--LA MRS. MEDILL McCORMICK Chairman MEMBERS MRS. ANTOINETTE FUNK Chicago MRS. HELEN GARDENER Washington, D. C. MRS. MARY C. BRADFORD Denver Office National Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association 517 Munsey Building WASHINGTON, D. C. Telephone Main 3597 MEMBERS MRS. SHERMAN M. BOOTH Glencoe, Ill. MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE Lexington, KY MRS. JOHN TUCKER San Francisco MRS. EDWARD DREIER Brooklyn March 4, 1914. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Hotel McAlphin, New York City. My dear Miss Shaw:- The hearing yesterday proved to be most successful from our point of view. As you know, we were given the first hour and as the Judiciary Committee is worn out with its succession of hearings and the men tired and peevish we decided that since we hadn't a list of brilliant speakers it was better to concentrate on our one good speaker, and so Mrs. Booth and I refrained from bursting into eloquence. I stated that I represented the National Association at the opening and introduced Mrs. Funk, who made her usual brilliant speech, short, concise and to the point. Toward the end she introduced the idea of Number 2, and it would have even pleased you if you could have seen the Committee straighten up and take notice. After she had finished they pelted questions at her for some time, showing that they had grasped the meaning of it, and were interested. We were followed by the Federal, who made their usual la-de-da speech, but it was soon over and then Mrs. Glendower Evans took the floor in charge of the Union's time. She was agressive and did not please them. The first speaker she introduced was Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict. They all began to straighten their neck-ties, leaning forward in anticipation of what this beautiful woman was about to say, and were all smirking attention. This continued for some time until she announced the Union policy clearly and definitely as going out to defeat the Democrats if they failed to pass legislation by this session of Congress, and then even her beauty + charm of speech faded into oblivion and they grouched into their chairs and cast surly looks first at the speaker and then at each other, and bit their lips with impatience. [*Ruth McCormick per L. A.*] [*MRS. MEDILL McCORMICK CHAIRMAN*] [*MEMBERS MRS. ANTOINETTE FUNK CHICAGO MRS. HELEN GARDENER WASHINGTON D.C. MRS. MARY C. BRADFORD DENVER*] [*TELEPHONE MAIN 3597*] [*MEMBERS MRS. SHERMAN M. BOOTH GLENCOE, ILL. MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE LEXINGTON, KY MRS. JOHN TUCKER SAN FRANCISCO MRS. EDWARD DREIER BROOKLYN*] OFFICE National Congressional Committee OF THE National American Woman Suffrage Association 517 MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. [*March 5, 1914.*] Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Hotel McAlpin, New York City. My dear Dr. Shaw:- I wrote you so hastily yesterday that I will try and get a coherent few lines off today. Isn't it a wonderful thing that the Senate of the United States is spending a full week debating suffrage? The speeches have been splendid, not one on our side that wasn't first class. We keep careful count of every man on the floor in the hope that we might by some chance pass the measure. I think I wrote you yesterday that there was one day when it might have been done. The Republicans had decided to vote with the suffrage Democrats as a whole and put the Democratic party in bad but they changed their minds next day and I fear will not go back. I think, however, we are going to get a good vote, better perhaps than a majority. Yesterday we had two more than a majority in the Senate. The Union is doing everything on earth it can to prevent us taking a vote at this time. They want a resolution to present to the Senate urging them to vote for this measure which they can carry up on the 9th of May, but it would be a very unwise and even dangerous thing after the 9th of May, because then they will be in the very midst of trust legislation, which may run the session well into July. I am anxious to see you and tell you in person about the hearing before the Judiciary. Mr. Dunn has interviewed a number of members of that Committee and they have all told him that we were the ones that made the food impression. I can feel that this is true and I almost dare to hope that we can get something out of them and that they may send our second resolution on to the floors of the House perhaps without a recommendation. Anyway, we will strive to that end. I am sorry that I cannot make the southern trip with Dr. Shaw -2- 3-5-14 you; I have looked forward to it, but it is simply impossible to leave this situation at this time. Mrs. McCormick will go and Mrs. Booth and I will have all we can do to take care of matters on the hill. We are trying to get Senator Ashurst to go to South Carolina for us. If he cannot I presume one of us can go at the last moment. Since writing the above have been up to the Capitol. Senator Sherman of Illinois has just concluded a very fine speech, and Pomeren of Ohio is making a speech against us. There are three or four more speeches to be made tomorrow. I think we should get to a vote tomorrow. Ashurst cannot go to South Carolina but I think we can arrange for Borah togo, which will help some. Had a talk with Miss Stevens of the Union. The Union is very much displeased with us along general lines but I do not think we need worry much more about them. They are making we want him to and not following their requests. I am so glad that you are going to be able to go down into the South; you certainly are needed there. trust you will be very careful and not overdo; you know to do too much work at once. I am sure you will get lots of tender care, however. With much love, Sincerely yours, AF-LA Antoinette Funk [*MRS. MEDILL MCCORMICK CHAIRMAN*] [*Members MRS. ANTOINETTE FUNK CHICAGO, ILL MRS. HELEN GARDENER WASHINGTON, D.C. MRS. MARY C. BRADFORD DENVER, COLO. MRS. SHERMAN M. BOOTH GLENCOE, ILL. MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE LEXINGTON, KY. MRS. JOHN TUCKER SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. MRS. EDWARD DRIER BROOKLYN, N.Y.*] OFFICE National Congressional Committee OF THE National American Woman Suffrage Association MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. [*TELEPHONE MAIN 3597*] [*Officers National Association DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW PRESIDENT MISS JANE ADAMS FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. SUSAN W. FITZGERALD RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. MARY WARE DENNETT CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MRS. STANLEY MCCORMICK TREASURER MRS. JAMES LEES LAIDLAW FIRST AUDITOR MRS. JOSEPH TILTON BOWEN SECOND AUDITOR*] [*1913 Alaska*] [*WHITE STATES . . FULL SUFFRAGE SHADED " . . PARTIAL " DARK " . NO "*] [*March 13, 1914.*] Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Hotel McAlpin, New York, N.Y. Dear Doctor Shaw: I am enclosing you a letter written by Miss Mary Towle and my answer to her, and I have a bit of news which I think will please you. A month or two ago the Union triumphantly announced that Ella Flagg Young had joined their ranks, Mrs. Stubbs having secured her as a member. Now Mrs. Young is one of my very closest friends, and I could not understand, so I wrote her a letter and wired Mrs. McCormick to see her. She was unable to do so, but I have today received a reply from Mrs. Young together with an enclosure which you will note she desires us to send to the Union. Mrs. McCormick is going to deliver it in person. If you do not tell us the next time you write how your ankle is I am going to appoint myself a committee of one to visit you and examine it for myself. Now with that threat I feel that you will let us know the exact status. Yours devotedly, [Aut???tte L????] 4 Enclosures. AF-LB [*MRS. MEDILL MCCORMICK CHAIRMAN*] [*Members MRS. ANTOINETTE FUNK CHICAGO, ILL MRS. HELEN GARDENER WASHINGTON, D.C. MRS. MARY C. BRADFORD DENVER, COLO. MRS. SHERMAN M. BOOTH GLENCOE, ILL. MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE LEXINGTON, KY. MRS. JOHN TUCKER SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. MRS. EDWARD DRIER BROOKLYN, N.Y.*] OFFICE National Congressional Committee OF THE National American Woman Suffrage Association MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D.C. [*TELEPHONE MAIN 3597*] [*Officers National Association DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW PRESIDENT MISS JANE ADAMS FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. SUSAN W. FITZGERALD RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. MARY WARE DENNETT CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MRS. STANLEY MCCORMICK TREASURER MRS. JAMES LEES LAIDLAW FIRST AUDITOR MRS. JOSEPH TILTON BOWEN SECOND AUDITOR*] [*1913 Alaska*] [*WHITE STATES . . FULL SUFFRAGE SHADED " . . PARTIAL " DARK " . NO "*] [*April 14, 1914*] Mrs. Oakes Ames, 260 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. My dear Madam:- At the request of Mrs. Stanley McCormick I am forwarding you some statements prepared by our organization, bearing upon the policy of the National Association, action of the National's Committee at Washington with reasons for the same, and a copy of the Shafroth-Palmer resolution together with an analysis of its merits. Will you permit me to say that this amendment is not in any sense a substitute for the Susan B. Anthony amendment, but is in aid of it. Recognizing, as we have been forced to recognize, that it is impossible to pass the Anthony amendment at this session and probably for a good many years to come, we have endeavored to draft a resolution that will give aid to the states and in the next ten years bring into the suffrage column at least fifteen more states, recognizing that when that day is here suffrage will be an accomplished fact. It will then only be a question of the easiest way of writing it into law. I shall take the liberty of sending you from time to time such literature as we may prepare upon the subject. I will send you also as soon as copies are made in the office, a statement issued by Mrs. Glendower Evans, of your city, wherein she characterized Mrs. Medill McCormick as a liar and myself as a Judas, together with a letter she wrote me about the same, my reply to her and her reply, also a copy of a speech I made before the Judiciary Committee of the House March 3. AF-LA Very truly yours Enclosure Antoinette Funk [ke?? a] COMPARISON OF THE POLICY OF THE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION AND OF THE CONGRESSIONAL UNION. THE POLICE OF THE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN. The policy of the National American Woman Suffrage Association is absolutely non-partisan, as established by the constitution which has governed it for half a century. The same policy was reaffirmed by the unanimous adoption of a similar article in the constitution recently adopted at the last national convention in Washington in December, 1913. The convention was composed of representative women from practically every section of the United States. This non-partisan policy means that the women shall neither endorse nor condemn any party. It means that suffrage shall be won by the co-operation of all parties alike; that members of every political party shall be solicited, as individuals, to support suffrage. In every one of the ten suffrage states, suffrage has been won by the co-operation of all parties. The National Congressional Committee's policy is to hold individuals responsible. THE POLICY OF THE CONGRESSIONAL UNION. The policy of the Congressional Union, as stated by Miss Paul and Mrs. Beard before the National Board at the meeting of Feb. 11, 1914, held in New York, is "to hold the Democratic party, being the party in power, responsible." Miss Paul further elucidated that it was the policy and intention of the Union to go out and defeat any and all Democrats in their power "if the Democratic party fails to pass the pending suffrage amendment -1- at this session of Congress." This policy is to apply even to those Democrats who favored us in the recent Democratic caucus and who favor suffrage both at home and in Congress. It would apply also to Democrats who may have previously, in their state legislatures, voted for suffrage or who helped pass suffrage in the suffrage states. The policy maintains that the sole reason for defeating a man, if suffrage fails, is that he is a member of "the party in power," in other words, the Democratic party. This is the reiterated policy, stated verbally and in the press, of the Congressional Union. -2- [*O*] REASONS WHY THE NON-PARTISAN POLICY OF THE NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION IS PARCTICAL. 1. Because it holds individuals responsible. Every man must answer for himself to the women of his constituency. 2. A Democratic vote is as good as a Republican vote for suffrage. 3. Suffrage is not a partisan question but one of fundamental justice and can be considered by individuals regardless of party. 4. The policy of the National Congressional Committee is to oppose those men who by their vote clearly disregard the wishes of their constituents in opposing suffrage. This makes their defeat a practical possibility and does not make the National amusing by making empty threats. 5. It is obviously absurd to attempt to defeat men because they belong to the majority party. Suffragists must depend upon their suffrage supporters to defeat any member of Congress, and it is doubtful whether even in the suffrage states the women can be induced to vote against a man because he is a Democrat. Moreover, the majority party, being in the saddle, is the most difficult party to defeat. 6. It makes suffragists ridiculous to attempt to defeat the best friends they have in the Senate. For example, Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, who is a Democrat and up for re-election in 1916, introduced the suffrage amendment. - 1 - Senator Thomas, of Colorado, who is Chairman of the Woman Suffrage Committee, also a Democrat, himself actively conducted the consideration of woman suffrage in the Senate. It has been stated in several Washington papers, and in other cities, that the Congressional Union, through the women voters in these two suffrage states, expect to defeat these two Senators, our good friends. 7. If the suffragists should be successful in defeating such Senators as Chamberlain and Thomas, they would deprive themselves of the most active suffrage supporters in Congress. - 2 - WHY THE NATIONAL CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE FELT IT NECESSARY THAT A VOTE OF SUFFRAGE BE TAKEN IN THE SENATE AT THE CLOSE OF THE DEBATE. 1. The National Congressional Committee did not hurry or urge a speedy vote on suffrage. We encouraged every senator to speak on the measure and hoped ample time would be given to all speakers as there could be no better propaganda than that. 2. However, the National Congressional Committee did not want the vote postponed but wanted it taken when the speeches were finished, because soon after the trust legislation, the repeal of the Panama tolls, etc., would be "up," and then no time would be given our resolution. It is my opinion that this was the political time to consider the amendment as it had the order of "unfinished business" and came up automatically at two o'clock every afternoon. If we had lost this position, we would either have had to set a time to vote, thus stultifying debate, or would have been obliged to run the risk of being crowded out by other legislation and being unable to bring it up at all. 3. The Senate was ready to vote. Every mind was made up. The entire body had grown weary of suffrage. Delay was losing us votes. Two southerners, to my knowledge, that week received telegrams from their state suffrage presidents not to vote for this resolution because of states' rights. Doubtless, Senators from other southern states received the same instructions. _2_ 4. Some time ago, before our resolution had climbed to the place of "unfinished business," the Committee tried to hold back consideration of suffrage until the Committee had been able to complete the canvass of the Senate. At that time we were told by the Senators themselves that members of the Union were crowding them to take a vote. Later, when we had completed the canvass and were satisfied that every possible vote had been gained, our positions were reversed. The Union then wanted to hold up the vote until after May 2nd. The May 2nd demonstration, which is propaganda and not politics, will be better addressed to the Judiciary, where the suffrage amendment is now being considered, which by that time will have disposed of the trust legislation, and may be even then discussing suffrage. The Senate, on the other hand, will be so absorbed in trust legislation, that they would scarcely grant any courtesies to suffrage. We were guided purely by the expediency of the political situation. MRS. MEDILL MCCORMICK OFFICE TELEPHONE MAIN 3597 ------- CHAIRMAN -------- National Congressional Committee Officers National Association Members OF THE DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW MRS. ANTOINETTE FUNK National American Woman Suffrage Association PRESIDENT CHICAGO, ILL MISS JANE ADDAMS MRS. HELEN GARDENER MUNSEY BUILDING FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT WASHINGTON. D. C. MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE MRS. MARY C. BRADFORD WASHINGTON, D. C. SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT DENVER, COLO. MRS. CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES MRS. SHERMAN M. BOOTH THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT GLENCOE, ILL. MRS. SUSAN W. FITZGERALD MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE RECORDING SECRETARY LEXINGTON, KY. MRS. MARY WARE DENNETT MRS. JOHN TUCKER CORRESPONDING SECRETARY SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. MRS. STANLEY MCCORMICK MRS. EDWARD DRIER TREASURER BROOKLYN, N. Y. MRS. JAMES LEES LAIDLAW FIRST AUDITOR MRS. JOSEPH TILTON BOWN SECOND AUDITOR [*Cong. Com] April 2, 1914 Answered ………………….. Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, 505 Fifth Avenue, APR 2 1914 New York City. Supplies My dear Mrs. Dennett:- I am sending you a copy of a telegram we have just received from Mrs. Booth. It throws much light on the telegram sent out to various Board members. I know some of the women who signed that telegram and I felt positive that they were under a misapprehension. This of course is not of great importance, but I thought it might be of interest to you. Sincerely yours, AF-LA Antionette Funk. Enclosure [*Please see letter ?ather to Dr. Shaw.] COPY Des Moines, Iowa, March 31, 1914. Mrs. Medill McCormick, Munsey Bldg., Washington, D. C. Misrepresentations used to get signatures to telegrams sent to every member of Board by Union. Campaign states sympathetic and Union has lost standing because all fairminded people concede they came to make trouble and I to prevent trouble. Nebraska, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota favor Number Two but urge no controversy gets to press. My judgment National gains sympathy and support by making no newspaper fuss at this time and assures cooperation from campaign states. Best material at conference with us and indignant at Union. National has gained much backing by this intrusion here. (Signed) Mrs. Booth. National American Woman Suffrage Association President, REV. ANNA HOWARD SHAW, Pa. Recording Secretary, MRS. SUSAN WALKER FITZGERALD, Boston 1st Vice-President, MISS JANE ADDAMS, Chicago. Treasurer, MRS. KATHERINE DEXTER MCCORMICK, Boston 2nd Vice-President, MISS C. ANITA WHITNEY, Cal. 1st Auditor, MRS. HARRIET BURTON LAIDLAW, N. Y. Corresponding Secretary, MRS. MARY WARE DENNETT, N.Y. 2nd Auditor, MRS. J. T. BOWEN, Chicago. Congressional Committee MISS ALICE PAUL, N.J., Chairman Answered...…………………. MRS. CRYSTAL EASTMAN BENEDICT, Wis. MISS LUCY BURNS, N. Y. DEC 17 1913 MRS. LAWRENCE LEWIS, JR., Pa. MRS. MARY BEARD, N. Y. HEADQUARTERS CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE: 1420 F STREET N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. Supplies...…………………….. [*Cong. Com] December 16th, 1913 [I] Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, 505--Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y. Dear Mrs. Dennett: I am not sure what the terms were of the constitution which was adopted, but understand that "Auxiliary Association" now means one which pays annual dues of $100. The Congressional Union wishes to be an Auxiliary and not Affiliated, since we could not afford to pay the amount which an Affiliated Society is compelled to do. Please let me know whether the fact that we were admitted as an Auxiliary, makes us an Auxiliary under the new Constitution or whether we have to take any action to be changed into the Auxiliary class under the present Constitution. Very sincerely yours, Alice Paul Chairman Congressional Committee. AP/KH. MRS. MEDILL MCCORMICK TELEPHONE RANDOLPH 5748 CHAIRMAN OFFICE National Congressional Committee OF THE National American Woman Suffrage Association 1505 CITY HALL SQUARE BUILDING CHICAGO, ILL. Feb. 3, 1914. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City. My dear Miss Shaw:- I feel that we are facing a very grave situation in regard to the Congressional Union, and I frankly confess that I find myself in a very embarrassing position, but I wish to be perfectly frank and to put before you at this time what I believe to be a fair presentation of the facts. When I accepted the Chairmanship of this Committee, I did so innocently confident that I should be able, in representing the National American Woman Suffrage Association, to work out if not a completely satisfactory plan certainly a compromise plan with the Congressional Union that would be satisfactory to both organizations. If I had not felt this confidence in the future of the work, I certainly should not have accepted the position as Chairman as it has been one of the most disagreeable tasks I have ever performed. I wish just here, however, to express my deep gratitude to you personally for your loyal support of the work so far done by my Committee and your confidence in me personally. Miss Addams has sent to me this morning copy of the resolutions passed by the Equal Franchise Society of Philadelphia requesting the National Board to have Miss Burns and Miss Paul appear before them, and also your letter of Jan. 31st. I want to again thank you for your support in this letter, and I am only writing you at this time because I feel this matter is of such extreme importance. If the Congressional Union is elected by Executive Council a member of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, it will place us in a perfectly ridiculous position, particularly in Washington, and I cannot, under any circumstances whatsoever, continue as Chairman of this Committee in Washington, if that is the decision of the Executive Council. I had hoped that the members of the Board would realize the danger of their association in regard to this Democratic policy, but if they do not realize it, I cannot be a working part of such a blunder. I know your realize the importance of this situation, and I do not want this letter in any way to be misunderstood by you, but I feel that I must express this opinion to you officially so that it can be taken under consideration by the Board and I am enclosing a signed statement of the history of my dealings with the congressional Union as accurately set forth as I can remember them so that a copy of them can be sent to the members of the Board or you can read it at the meeting on Feb. 11th, whichever you think best. The harm already done in Washington cannot be exaggerated in regard to the policy adopted by the Congressional Union. It is political suicide at the present time for any group of suffragists to adopt such a policy, and the Dr. Anne Howard Shaw, -3- Feb. 3, 1914. only way that the harm can be undone is by the National taking a stand of repudiation of this action by the Congressional Union. You know that I am accurate in the statement that two or three days after it becomes known that the Congressional Union has been accepted as an auxiliary member of the National Association they will be sending out appeals for money and support as an auxiliary of the National, and as they are doing the same sort of work that we are in Washington, the confusion will continue and we will be in a "Kilkenny cat fight" for another year. The lobbying that is being done by the Congressional Union at the Capitol is conducted very differently from ours, and that is really why it is so essential for us to have a new resolution to introduce so that the two things may become entirely separated. I hope to be able to report to you in regard to this suggestion in a very few days. In regard to the public demonstration in May, I want to urge again the plan which I wrote you about the other day of having a mass meeting in every town in the United States at 12:30 on a particular day. The more I think of this idea the more wildly enthusiastic I become. I can work out the details for you in a couple of days, and will do so anyway, and mail them the end of the week so that in case you do consider adopting this plan, you will be able to send it to the states as a suggestion at once. The parades will cost $50,000 Miss Paul says, and this scheme of ours will reach about ten times as many people and cost 100% less. If you want me to appear before the Board on Feb. 11th, I am yours to command, as always, but I am opposed to such a meeting, as you are, because it will resolve itself, I am afraid, into a row which would be most unfortunate. If, as Chairman, you could absolutely prevent any discussion of personalities and stick to the policy argument, it might prove to be a good thing, but just the minute that we begin to allow Miss Burns to say "I said so-and-so at such-and-such a time," or "I did not say so-and-so at such-and-such a time," we will waste the entire day building up a feeling of antagonism among the individuals present that will never be eradicated. Faithfully yours, Ruth McCormick MRS. MEDILL McCORMICK CHAIRMAN TELEPHONE RANDOLPH 5748 OFFICE National Congressional Committee OF THE National American Woman Suffrage Association 1505 CITY HALL SQUARE BUILDING CHICAGO, ILL. Feb. 3, 1914. Statement. Two days after I accepted the Chairmanship of the National Congressional Committee, I went to Washington to confer with Miss Shaw, Mrs. Dennett, Miss Paul and Miss Burns in regard to the legislative work for the coming year. At the first conference held at the Shorem Hotel, Miss Shaw, Mrs. Dennett, Miss Burns and I all decided that it would be advisable for me, representing the National in my capacity as Chairman of one of its standing committees, to meet with the Executive Committee of the Congressional Union to work a plan to be adopted by both organizations for the legislative campaign. As nearly as I can remember, the following plan was submitted to the Congressional Union: The plan of the National Congressional Committee was divided into three parts: Publicity, Lobbying and Organization work. I proposed that in the states where my Committee failed to complete a Congressional Committee organization, that the Congressional Union should go into those states and try to do the organization work. I argued that, of course, the National organization is already equipped to do this branch of the Committee's work much more expeditiously, and to this they replied that the state organizations were not alive enough and had failed to respond to them with sufficient minority to enable them to have satisfactory Congressional work accomplished during the year that they had been at work. I replied that what had been done in the past I knew nothing about, but that I wanted very much to try my hand at -2- organizing them, and that if I failed in a certain length of time, I was sure that the National would be glad to have the Congressional Union appoint one of their women to undertake the organization work. In regard to publicity, I suggested that the publicity department be divided into two parts, — that of Press work and Publicity work. As the Congressional Union already had established in Washington a press bureau, it seemed to me that it would be more efficient and economic for us to cooperate with them in maintaining this bureau. I went into details on this question and suggested that at the end of every month an account should be rendered and that we should pay one-half of the bill. the publicity should be divided between two committees, one for the Congressional Union and one for the National Congressional Committee, because the propaganda work would be separated and the publicity work could go on more efficiently on this basis. The lobbying should be done by a joint committee composed of an equal number of representatives of the Congressional Union and the National Congressional Committee, that we should hold a meeting as soon as possible to decide upon a policy for the lobby to be adopted for the coming year and that that this should be submitted to the National Board for its consideration and adoption. There was not a suggestion of irritation during the entire period of negotiation between us, and the personnel of the lobby must have been agreeable to the Congressional Union members because each individual who was to be a member of this joint lobby Committee had been invited by Miss Burns and Miss Paul to assist them in their work at Washington this winter. The Congressional Union decided that they could not accept this proposition and made two objections. They did not wish to share the press bureau with the national Congressional Committee, and they were not willing to have the National Board appealed to for the purpose of adopting a policy for the lobby committee. When I discovered this fact, there was nothing left for me to do but sever -3- connections with the Congressional Union, as I understand the importance of submitting questions and outlines of work to the official Board elected by the National Convention. In my judgment it is of no consequence what I said during these negotiations or what Miss Paul or Miss Burns said or what any other member sitting in that conference said. There are just two facts in regard to the Congressional Union to be considered. First, the fact that after four days negotiations with their Executive committee they refused to accept the decisions of the National Board in regard to their work; if the National Board happened to agree with their policy plans, all well and good, but if the National Board did not approve of their policy or their plans, they intended to continue with their policy and their plans. The second fact is that after the first vote of the Rules Committee this session, they publicly announced over the signatures of their Executive Committee that if the Democratic party did not pass the woman suffrage amendment now pending in Congress at this session, they would try to defeat for office every Democrat, friend and foe alike, in the coming Congressional elections. A divided house cannot stand, and if we are to have within the National American Woman Suffrage Association two committees lobbying at the Capitol in Washington using diametrically opposite methods of lobbying and campaigning and advocating a diametrically opposite policy, what is to become of the woman suffrage cause in the near future? K. D McCormick [?]. 1913 [?] Statement by Treasurer N.A.W.S.A. in regard to financial affairs between National Association and Congressional Committee during year 1913-1914. I started at the Washington Convention (December 1913) during the course of my report and also in reply to a question from the floor that I had been seriously embarrassed in my work during the year by the lack of financial reports from the National Congressional Committee. It had,- I further stated, - been quite understood from the beginning that the National Association was unable to finance its Congressional Committee but that such committee might raise money in the National Association's name. On January 24th, 1914 the National Treasurer addressed a letter to Miss Paul (Chairman of the Congressional Committee) a copy of which is appended hereto, asking her to indicate in what manner she wished the National Treasury to co-operate with her in the business of the Parade Committee and asking what plan she would suggest for handling the financial operations of her office. Miss Paul's answer to this letter is appended hereto. As indicated in Miss Paul's letter the Washington Parade was the first work undertaken by the New Congressional Committee and one of the principal objects for appointment of Miss Paul and Miss Burns as the nucleus of the Congressional Committee. Nevertheless, as stated in this letter from Miss Paul, an account was opened in Washington in her name as Chairman of the Congressional Committee in which account she "deposited the money which was received before the procession was decided upon, and a few small sums which have been received since." The next sentence in Mss Paul's letter was a significant one from the National Treasurer's viewpoint. It reads: "This small fund has been used for Congressional work and is now about exhausted." This sentence indicated either unwillingness to establish financial connections between the Congressional Committee and the National Treasury or else a failure to understand what is meant by financial connections. The latter alternative was not assumed by the National Treasurer, but the absence of all basis of financial accounting between the National Association and the Congressional Committee was considered sufficiently grave to warrant bringing the entire matter before the National Board for their decision. The National Board reviewed the situation and decided that neither they nor I should take any further steps in the matter because they feared that if such were taken the Congressional Committee and their allied workers would accuse the National of trying to wind them up in what had been called "its red tape" and that their enthusiasm and interest would be crushed if they were not permitted to handle matters in their own way. The argument was made that as long as they had been given the Washington end of the National Association's work they ought to be allowed to conduct it unhampered in their own way. I was not the only member of the Board who objected to this — saying that inasmuch as the Congressional Committee was raising money in the name of the National Association a complete accounting of all the financial operations of the Congressional Committee should be made to the National Association. This was answered by the statement that undoubtedly a full accounting of all of their financial operations would be made to the National Association at the end of the year and would be incorporated in the -2- Treasurer's report made at the Convention but that in the meantime the Board and officers of the National Association should be patient and not interfere with the Congressional Committee. I again brought the matter to the attention of the Board later on saying that I had received a letter asking why the National Association was trying to raise money to meet the expenses of the National Convention at Washington when it was understood that the local Association was to meet such expenses. As I had not known that money was being raised by the National Association for such an object and explained to the Board how awkward I considered such a situation was both for me as Treasurer and for the National Association. As Treasurer of the Association it is of course part of my duty to know if money was being raised by the Association and to account for it on my books. Another incident which served to heighten my anxiety occurred when a friend asked me why she hay received no receipt from my office for the check for $250.00 which she had contributed to the National Association. I told her that we had not received the check and asked her where she had sent it. She answered that she had sent it to our Washington Headquarters in F Street. She asked me if that was not the National Congressional Committee Headquarters, and I replied that it was. She then asked me if checks for $250.00 were so small to us that did not either send a receipt or know anything about them. I could only say that it must have been an oversight. I could not state that the National Security did not know anything about the financial operations of one of its standing committees (which was indeed the case) for of course we were responsible for any money raised or spent in the National Association's name. However, the attitude of the majority of the National Board was that the Congressional Committee should be allowed to go their one way and -3- not be interfered with by the National Board. When the time approached for preparing the reports for the National Convention the National Corresponding Secretary wrote to the Congressional Committee on October 21st and asked them to forward a copy of their report. In April or May, 1913 a statement of the expenses and expenditures of the Parade Committee was sent in (without vouchers) by the treasurer of the Parade, Miss E. Gillette. This financial statement is appended hereto. It was the only financial report received from the Congressional Committee during the entire year 1912-1913, and it was not a report of the regular expenses and receipts of the Congressional Committee but merely of one piece of propaganda work undertaken by the Congressional Committee. Therefore it was that when the National Treasurer made her annual verbal report at the Convention in Washington in December 1913, it was incomplete for it gave no account of the money raised and spent by the most important of the National Association's standing committees, namely - the Congressional Committee. At the time the National Treasurer was making her report to the Convention some one inquired from the floor as to why money had had to be raised by the National Association to meet the expenses of the (National) Convention when the local association was supposed to do this. In replying I stated that until shortly before I had not known that money was being so raised and had been greatly surprised to find it was me. The inquirer from the floor then stated that the request for money to meet the expenses of the National Convention had come to her, at least, written on paper bearing the letter head of the National Congressional Committee. In answering this the Treasurer made the statement referred to at the beginning of this review, namely,- that she had been seriously embarrassed in her work during the year by the lack of financial relations -4- with the Congressional Committee. At the Convention (in Washington 1913) the Chairman of the Congressional Committee read a verbal report of the year's work of the Committee. This report was on the program for Monday but was postponed until Friday at the request of the Chairman of the Congressional Committee. This report did not relate solely to the Congressional Committee but was a combined report of the Congressional Committee and the Congressional Union, because the Chairman of the Congressional Committee stated that it was impossible to separate the two reports. However, the Convention was not satisfied that the two reports should be this merged and directed the Chairman of the Congressional Committee (see Mrs. Catt's motion, 7th session, clause 2, p. 113) to separate them, in order that the National Association might accept and have a report and account of the work of its Congressional Committee during the year 1912-1913. On February 11th there occurred a conference at National Headquarters between the Congressional Union and the National Board. At this conference it was suggested by a member of the Congressional Committee that the National Treasurer had made unwarrantable statements concerning the financial operations of the ex-Congressional Committee. The National treasurer then repeated what she had said at the Washington Convention and subsequently, namely,- that there had been no financial relations during the year past between the National Association and the Congressional Committee and that the National Association had never received any financial report from the Congressional Committee. (The only report [as noted above] that had been received was a report from the Parade Committee which was a joint committee of the Congressional Committee and the Parade Committee.) -5- The remarks above given as made by the National Treasurer were the only ones ever made by her in connection with the Congressional Committee, and they were founded upon the facts of the case. At the end of the conference of February 11th the ex-Chairman of the Congressional Committee presented the National Treasurer with a financial report which she stated was the financial report of the Congressional Committee for the year 1912-1913. This report is appended hereto and may else be found in the annual report of the National Association for 1912-1913. KATHARINE DEXTER McCORMICK MRS. MEDILL MCCORMICK CHAIRMAN OFFICE NATIONAL CONGRESSIONAL COMITTEE OF THE AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. TELEPHONE MAIN 3597 MEMBERS MRS. ANTOINETTE FUNK CHICAGO, ILL MRS. HELEN GARDENER WASHINGTON, D. C. MRS. MARY C. BRADFORD DENVER, COLO. MRS. SHERMAN M. BOOTH GLENCOE, ILL. MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE LEXINGTON, KY. MRS. JOHN TUCKER SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. MRS. EDWARD DRIER BROOKLYN, N. Y. WHITE STATE . . . FULL SUFFRAGE SHADED " . . PARTIAL " DARK " . NO " Officers National Association DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW PRESIDENT MISS JANE ADDAMS FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. CAROLINE RUUTZ-REES THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. SUSAN W. FITZGERALD RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. MARY WARE DENNETT CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MRS. STANLEY MCCORMICK TREASURER MRS. JAMES LEES LAIDLAW FIRST AUDITOR MRS. JOSEPH TILTON BOWEN SECOND AUDITOR April 2, 1914. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Hotel McAlpin, New York City. My dear Dr. Shaw:- I think the letter received today from Mrs. Booth will interest you so I am sending you a copy, [*see [?]*] and I want to tell you too that we are getting such fine and encouraging letters from the state presidents. You know weekly letters have been sent out explaining in full the happenings here. This morning's mail brought letters from the presidents of Virginia, and West Virginia, saying that the Shafroth Resolution would advance suffrage in the south by years and make extensive and practical work possible, also that with that in view they could boom the May 2 demonstrations. The president in Pennsylvania wrote to Representative Palmer, whom we have asked to introduce the Shafroth Resolution in the House, that it had the most enthusiastic support of the Pennsylvania women. The president from Main writes that it meets her entire view as the wise and sensible course. We are sending out explanations, etc. all the time and in the course of the next month should have heard from every one of the state presidents on the question. I will mail you tomorrow the letter prepared to send out for this week. I hope you were not over-fatigued by your trip to Boston. I shall await with great interest Mrs. McCormick's report on her return today. With much love, I am, Yours most sincerely, Antoinette Funk AF-LA Enclosures Dr. Shaw -2 4-2-14. P. S. Since writing the above the enclosed telegram has come from Mrs. Booth. I am sure it will be of interest to you. A.L. P. S. -2 There was something further that I wanted to write you about, and that is the situation in South Dakota. You know Senator Crawford has just been beaten in the primaries and the report is here by those who have been campaigning in the state that there is very little said about suffrage; that it appears to be almost a dead issue. I mention this thinking it is a bit of information that you ought to have. A. L. Antoinette Funk [*Natl. Star 4/13/14*] 12 CIRCULAR EMBRACES PLEA OF SUFFRAGISTS Promoters of Cause Supply Copies of Bristow-Mondell Congressional Resolution. Plans for Nation-Wide Demonstration May 2 and for Washington Parade May 9. In response to hundreds of queries received at Congressional Union headquarters by Miss Alice Paul, originator of Suffrage day, who is in executive charge of the nation-wide demonstration May 2, and of the pageant parade here May 9, the executive secretary, Miss Doris Stevens, is today sending out nearly 20,000 circular letters giving the wording of the resolution that is to be adopted at these May 2 ceremonies. This resolution calls upon Congress to pass immediately the Bristow-Mondell resolution, which is now before it, proposing an amendment to the United States Constitution, enfranchising women, and that a copy of the resolution be sent to every member of the United States Senate and House of Representatives. Provisions of the Resolution. The Bristow-Mondell resolution, which the demonstrations over the the country May 2 and the culminating procession in Washington May 9 are designed support provides that- The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. The Congress shall have power by appropriate legislation to enforce the provisions of this article. Mrs. Frances Munds, president of the Arizona Suffrage Association, has sent word the the Governor of Arizona has been asked to make May 2 a national holiday in that state. Criticises Anti-Suffrage. Anti-suffragette methods were censured by Julian Pierce, chairman of the lecture committee of the Study Club in Economics, in Pythian Temple last night. Speaking on the "Capitalist State agt. Socialist State," he asserted that everything- government, army, police - are owned by the capitalists. Miss Ernestine Evans, recently returned from the Mississippi valley conference at Des Moines, and Miss Emily K. Perry, who has just come to Washington after suffrage campaign work in Rhode Island and Pennsylvania, were speakers at the suffrage tea in Congressional Union headquarters, 1420 F street, yesterday. The hostesses were Mrs. T. J. Holmes and Miss Rose Berrell. Miss Evans told of her campaign work with Miss Marion H. Drake, the first woman to run for an elective political office in Chicago, against "Bathhouse" John Coughlin, when they canvassed the aldermanic district and were defeated 7,000 to 3,000. Open-Air Rallies Nightly. Among the meetings planned for this week by the Congressional Union are open-air rallies every night. Thursday afternoon Mrs. Frank H. Snell will speak at the home of Mrs. J.A. Breckins, 1814 G street northwest. Miss Doris Stevens will speak Friday at the home of Mrs. S. B. Mercier, 1775 T street northwest. Miss Elizabeth Lord will address a meeting Friday night in the home of Mrs. Caleb Miller. That his suffrage bill will win out in Congress is the assertion made by Senator Shafroth in an interview issued by the Washington board of the National Woman's Suffrage Association. He is quoted as saying: "My proposed amendment will be reported, and we will find that it is ten votes stronger in the Senate than the measure voted down on March 19. Just think of the number of senators who said they were in favor of woman suffrage, but would not vote for the suffrage amendment because it interfered with the rights of states to control the franchise." 11 DUELS WITH REVOLVERS IS HARMONY RESTORER Chicago Newspaper Men, Following Bloodless Encounter, Again on Friendly Footing. CHICAGO, April 13.--A bloodless revolver duel, fought yesterday morning in a grove near Riverside Park, reestablished friendship between the participants, two Chicago newspaper men, according to stories told by their friends and seconds. Christian Botker, editor and publisher of the Reyven, a Danish-Norwegian newspaper, and Edward Peterson, the local correspondent of the Chicago Posten, a Danish paper, published in Minneapolis, were said to be the principals. An article published in the Reyven, attacking Peterson; was said to have led to the ill feeling, and to have resulted in a challenge from Peterson. Shots Twice Go Wild The challenge was accepted, and Easter Sunday morning was set as the time. Accompanied by their seconds, the men went to the grove in automobiles about 7 o'clock in the morning. Each was given a revolver, placed with his back to the other. At a given word each walked ten paces, wheeled and fired. Both shots went wild, according to the witnesses. A second time the men stood back to back, walked ten paces, turned and fired. A second time the shots went wild. The principals are then said to have clasped hands and to have retired for refreshments. Anton Kvist acted as second for Botker and Thorvald E. Sommer and Peter Pram for Peterson. Peterson last night refused to discuss the affair, and Botker could not be found by his friends. Discovers New Use for Radium. Foreign Correspondence of The Star. PARIS, April 3, 1914. A new use for radium has been discovered by M. Szilard, whose invention was described at a recent meeting of the Academie des Sciences. M. Szilard has found that by attaching a sort of screen treated with from one to three milligrams or radium to a lightning conductor the protective power of the latter is increased to an extraordinary degree and its radius of action is multiplied vastly. Not only is the conductibility of the conductor improved, but the air all round is affected in such a way as to become a sort of extension of the apparatus. " [?]are-- [?] cause head far [?]g drink is Salt" [?]g, delicious. [?]sily corrected by this [?]eeps the blood pure, [?]ehe, biliousness, con[?] [?], ever popular house[?] old and young. [?]ondon, S. E, Eng. St., New York City; and of Hanover St., Baltimore, Md. ENOS FRUIT SALT [O????ATIVE] COMPOUND WHERE QUALITY COUNTS Mrs. Medill McCormick Chairman Members Mrs. Antoinette Funk Chicago, Ill Mrs. Helen Gardener Washington, D. C. Mrs. Mary C. Bradford Denver, Colo. Mrs. Sherman M. Booth Glencoe, Ill. Mrs. Desha Breckinridge Lexington, KY. Mrs. John Tucker San Francisco, Cal. Mrs. Edward Drier Brooklyn, N. Y. Office National Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association Munsey Building Washington, D. C. Officers National Association Dr. Anna Howard Shaw President Miss Jane Addams First Vice-President Mrs. Desha Breckinridge Second Vice-President Mrs. Caroline Ruutz-Rees Third Vice-President Mrs. Susan W. Fitzgerald Recording Secretary Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Stanley McCormick Treasurer Mrs. James Lee Laidlaw First Auditor Mrs. Joseph Tilton Bowen Second Auditor [*Cong Con*] April 14, 1914. [*Answered APR 15 1914*] Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City. My dear Mrs. Dennett:- I hope Miss Thompson will come to Philadelphia. As I wrote you yesterday, I cannot get to Paterson. I can leave at any time Sunday morning and meet you early in Philadelphia. Will you let me hear from you at once, telling me at what hotel you will stop? I don't want to be entertained by anybody. I am enclosing you a clipping from last evening's paper. How many resolutions have we sent out? I probably will not want to use this information but would like to have it in case it should become necessary. 4 p. m. I hope these few lines will reach you in time for Dr. Shaw to read. I will write to her directly but don't know just where I might reach her, as the time of her departure is so near. I have been up to the Senate this afternoon. Things certainly are looking well for us. The Senators are very much disgusted because Resolution No. 1 was reintroduced. They say such a move on the part of anybody shows lack of political understanding. When a measure has been introduced, has been fully discussed and acted upon, it is not presumed to be introduced again until the following session. Mrs. Dennett -2 4-14-14. Some of the Senators claim that it makes them look ridiculous, as though they had not been made ridiculous enough by being opposed because they were ready to vote at a certain time and did not want to wait until a later date in order to hit or hitch with some parade. Following that Senator Bryan of Florida made a motion to declare the introduction of the Anthony amendment out of order. The Vice President ruled that immediately there was an attempt to take some action in behalf of this amendment he would then rule, and there isn't much question but what it is out of order at this time. I have seen Senator Sanfroth today. HE is going to speak at Carnegie Hall the evening of May 2. He may be a little late in arriving, if he is I will speak first and he will answer anything Miss Paul will say. We hope, however, that he will be there in time to speak before Miss Paul and I will come later. I am very glad indeed of this. He is most enthusiastic over the amendment, feels that it is the thing that is bound to advance our cause. We have been considering what we had best do with reference to a senatorial vote. there are two or three things that we can do. We can get our amendment reported out simply upon a poll of the committee. I would favor that plan if I were sure we could get discussion and a vote upon it later on. If, however, we are not going to be able to reach a vote, and I have some doubt about whether we can or not, it would be of great advantage to have it discussed by men like Borah, Vardaman, etc. Senator Shafroth has pointed out that we may draw up a statement to go out with a recommendation in place of a hearing, and after he has consulted with Senator Thomas we will decide upon the best course of action. I am having a very hard time working with Representatives. Now that there is nothing of interest in the House there is scarcely a corporal's guard present at any session, and I waste a great deal of valuable time trying to see Representatives who are absent. Coming back to the Shafroth Resolution, Senator Shafroth believes it will pass the Senate if we can get a hearing. We have just had a call from a Georgia lady who had been in to call upon the Union people. She had known Miss Paul some time ago. She asked Miss Paul whether they were still adhering to their policy of defeating the Democratic Mrs. Dennett -3 4-14-14 party. Miss Paul flushed and was evidently embarrassed. The lady pursued the subject and said that it would hurt suffrage in the south. Miss Paul replied that at this time they were not caring about the south, only about getting the women in the suffrage states to defeat the democrats. I just thought these few lines with reference to the capital situation might be of interest to Dr. Shaw before she left. I send her my love and every good wish for a pleasant voyage and a safe return. Please say to her that she isn't to worry about the situation here, things are straightening themselves out in good shape. Sincerely yours, Antoinette Funk ker R. 9. AF-LA Enclosure P. S. I requested the Union to send me something that I might enclose in letters regarding the parade. With great reluctance they sent me these folders. I have not, however, sent any of them out. What do you thing about sending it out in next week's letter? I am most anxious, now that we are cooperating at all, to do the thing thoroughly, and will be guided by what you suggest. Mrs. Medill McCormick Chairman Members Mrs. Antoinette Funk Chicago, Ill Mrs. Helen Gardener Washington, D. C. Mrs. Mary C. Bradford Denver, Colo. Mrs. Sherman M. Booth Glencoe, Ill. Mrs. Desha Breckinridge Lexington, KY. Mrs. John Tucker San Francisco, Cal. Mrs. Edward Drier Brooklyn, N. Y. Office National Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association Munsey Building Washington, D. C. Officers National Association Dr. Anna Howard Shaw President Miss Jane Addams First Vice-President Mrs. Desha Breckinridge Second Vice-President Mrs. Caroline Ruutz-Rees Third Vice-President Mrs. Susan W. Fitzgerald Recording Secretary Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Stanley McCormick Treasurer Mrs. James Lee Laidlaw First Auditor Mrs. Joseph Tilton Bowen Second Auditor June 10, 1914. Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City. My dear Mrs. Dennett: - In regard to the enclosed clipping, Mrs. Funk asked me to write you making the suggestion that you write Mrs. Belmont a letter asking her who is representing the National at this proposed meeting, so that we may call their bluff. Very truly yours, Lena F. Afflestein SUFFRAGISTS TO HOLD GET-TOGETHER SESSION ---------------- Leaders of Two Factions Will Meet July 3 at Mrs. Belmont's Home ----------------------- DIFFER ON MEASURES --------------------- WASHINGTON, June 7. July 3 has been agreed upon as the date, and Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont's Newport home, Marble House, the place for a get-together meeting of the woman suffrage leaders of the United States in an effort to concentrate support for a suffrage measure in congress. Two bills, one by Senator Shafroth and the other by Senator Bristow, are now before congress. The suffrage leaders are divided as to which is better, but they hope to settle all differences at the Newport meeting. Suffrage workers from nearly all states, and representatives of both the Congressional Union and the National American Woman Suffrage Association will participate. Miss Doris Stevens, executive secretary of the Congressional Union, will leave Washington for Newport in a short time and open headquarters there for the purpose of conducting an educational campaign from there throughout the summer. Miss Mary Doyle Brennan, will undertake a similar work at Atlantic City, where daily meetings will be held throughout the season on the boardwalk. Workers also will be sent to virtually all the other large summer resorts, hundreds of college girls having been enlisted in the movement to hold meetings for woman suffrage on yachts, steamers, pleasure piers, or wherever recreation crowds assemble. National Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association Munsey Building Washington, DC July 8, 1914 Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, 505 Fifth Ave, New York City My dear Dr. Shaw:- Your letter to myself and Mrs. Gardener just arrived, and we are glad to have your opinion upon the matter, which really accords with our own. I see in the new organization a power that will eventually straighten everything out in the District. You perhaps cannot realize the antagonism that the action of the Union in going to the President has stirred up. Congressman Baker of California, one of the strongest suffragists in the United States, is simply frantic over the attitude of the Union, and says it is injuring the cause of suffrage everywhere beyond repair. He is in consultation with us as to what is best for him to do. We have advised him that his record as a suffragist is such that his advice and warnings must be heeded. I think he will write a letter probably to you and the Board, asking you as head of the great [national?] organization to take steps to discredit militancy in any form. When our plans are a little better worked out I will write you for your approval before any final action is taken. It is as you say, a disheartening thing to spend time, energy and money in fighting something or somebody when we should be doing a big piece of constructive work, but the real progress is heartening and encouraging. Dr. Shaw -2 7-8-14 I did not realize that Ohio was going to become a campaign state this fall. What do you think of the chance for success there? If it is not too much trouble would you mind writing me, or have somebody else at the office who is in touch with the situation do so, giving me a short statement of the situation in each campaign state. You ask me what state I am going into. I do not know that. Mrs. McCormick will arrange the itinerary through the campaign state committee. I am an unfortunate victim of hay fever, which means that for six weeks from the middle of august I could not possibly be either in Missouri or Nebraska. I can go into those states in October, if necessary. I have always been able to do hard work along the speaking line, i.e. my voice lasts pretty well, and I ought to be able to take care of two meetings a day for ten weeks anyhow, and get through. I did that during the Progressive campaign, indeed I have averaged I think three a day at that time. Mrs. McCormick has sent to Washington for Miss Engle, the organizer she kept in the south to come to Chicago for three weeks, then she is going [???] into the campaign states, I don't know yet which ones. I don't get any letters from Mrs. McCormick, just a telegram occasionally. She is so busy there and there is no pressing necessity for her to write me here. I am delighted with the publicity your letter to the President received. The reaction here against the Union, as I told you before, is enormous. An Ohio representative told me yesterday that the action of the suffragists here in Washington was indecent. I spent an hour with him drawing the line. I guess he understood when he was through, but of course we are all more or less tarred with the same stick. I hold to my faith that the thing that is right cannot be defeated, - it may be stopped for a time, but that is the worst. With much love, Sincerely yours, Antoinette Funk AF-LA National American Woman Suffrage Association President, REV. ANNA HOWARD SHAW, Pa. 1st Vice-President, MISS JANE ADDAMS, Chicago. 2nd Vice-President, Vice-President, MISS C. ANITA WHITNEY, Cal. Corresponding Secretary, MRS. MARY WARE DENNETT, N. Y. Recording Secretary, MRS. SUSAN WALKER FITZGERALD, Boston. Treasurer, MRS. KATHERINE DEXTER McCORMICK, Boston. 1st Auditor, MRS. HARRIET BURTON LAIDLAW, N. Y. 2nd Auditor, MRS. J. T. BOWEN, Chicago. Congressional Committee MISS ALICE PAUL, N. J., Chairman. MRS. CRYSTAL EASTMAN BENEDICT, Wis. MISS LUCY BURNS, N. Y. MRS. LAWRENCE LEWIS, JR., Pa. HEADQUARTERS CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE: 1420 F STREET N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. April 25th, 1913. Dear Suffragist: The Woman Suffrage Amendment is now before the Woman Suffrage Committee of the Senate. Will you not aid in its passage by having the enclosed Resolution passed at as many meetings as possible and forwarded to every member of the Senate Committee? It will also be helpful if you will write a personal letter to every member of the Committee urging the course of action outlined in the Resolution. The members of the Committee are as follows: Charles S. Thomas, Chairman. Robert L. Owen, Henry F. Ashurst, Joseph E. Ransdell, Henry F. Hollis, George Sutherland, Wesley L. Jones, Moses E. Clapp, Thomas B. Catron, The address of each is Senate Office Building. Washington, D. C. Very sincerely yours, ALICE PAUL, Chairman Congressional Committee. RESOLVED: That this Meeting urges the SENATE COMMITTEE ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE to make a favorable report immediately on SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 1, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States extending the right of Suffrage to women. RESOLVED: That a copy of this Resolution be sent to every member of the Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage. PASSED at Meeting held at................... ........................................................................... Chairman of the Meeting. National American Woman Suffrage Association President, REV. ANNA HOWARD SHAW, Pa. 1st Vice-President, MISS JANE ASSAMS, Chicago. 2nd Vice-President, MISS C. ANITA WHITNEY, Cal. Corresponding Secretary, MRS. MARY WARE DENNETT, N. Y. Recording Secretary, MRS. SUSAN WALKER FITZGERALD, Boston. Treasurer, MRS. KATHERINE DEXTER McCORMICK, Boston 1st Auditor, MRS. HARRIET BURTON LAIDLAW, N. Y. 2nd Auditor, MRS. J. T. COWEN, Chicago. Congressional Committee MISS ALICE PAUL, N. J., Chairman. MRS. CRYSTAL EASTMAN BENEDICT, Wis. MISS LUCY BURNS, N. Y. MRS. LAWRENCE LEWIS, JR., Pa. MRS. MARY BEARD, N. Y. HEADQUARTERS CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE: 1420 F STREET N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. May 15th, 1913. Dear Suffragist: The proposal to create a Woman Suffrage Committee in the U. S. House of Representatives is now before the Rules Committee of that body. Please write to every member of the Rules Committee urging him to do everything in his power to secure the formation of such a Committee. It will also be helpful if you will have the enclosed resolution passed at as many meetings as possible and sent to the members of the committee. The Rules Committee consists of the following: Robert L. Henry, Edward W. Pou, Thoma W. Hardwick, Finis J. Garrett, Martin D. Foster, James C. Cantrill, Michael F. Conry, Philip P. Campbell, Irvine L. Lenroot, Edwin A. Merritt, Jr. Melville C. Kelly, The address of each is House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. The Woman Suffrage Committee of the U. S. Senate voted yesterday to report favorably the Woman Suffrage Resolution. This is the first time within twenty-one years that a favorable report has been secured in the Senate. The letters which Suffrage Associations all over the country sent to the Committee undoubtedly aided in securing this report. Very sincerely yours, ALICE PAUL, Chairman Congressional Committee. [*enclosure*] RESOLVED: That this meeting urges the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives to take immediate and favorable action on the proposal to create a House Committee on Woman Suffrage. RESOLVED: That a copy of this resolution be sent to every member of the Rules Committee. PASSED at a meeting of....... held at...... Chairman of the Meeting. National American Woman Suffrage Association September 4, 1913 Dr. Anna Shaw 505 5th Ave., New York City. Dear Dr. Shaw: Though Miss Bock has been constantly at work here for some weeks past, she has not issued any statement as far as we are aware, with the exception of one which was sent out last Sunday night. This was quoted in the clipping which I sent you in my last letter, and I believe that you saw the original, as you refer to it in your letter received today. Miss Bock does not speak in public, so we have no way of ascertaining what her statements are. To have sent her a challenge to a debate, her opponent being a man or woman from California, whom we would select. Very Sincerely yours, Alice Paulus Chairman Congressional Committee. AP/LW National American Woman Suffrage Association Nov. 25, 1913 Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Roylan, Penna. My dear Dr. Shaw- I am sorry that we have not made clear to you the situation in regard to the Hearing at the Capitol. Representative Henry, at first informed us that he had placed the hour for our Hearing at 10:30 on Wednesday and that we could speak all day Wednesday; that the Antis could have all day Thursday if they desired and that we could have Friday for rebuttal. At that time, however, there had been no application for a Hearing by the Antis. I telephoned him a few days ago and he said there had still been no application for a Hearing by the Antis. About two days ago he informed us that three different organizations and a number of individuals who are opposed to the Suffrage Committee had asked for a Hearing. He told them that they could speak as soon as we finished. I told him that we would take from ten thirty to one on Wednesday. We then said that the Antis would be given Wednesday afternoon and up until Thursday Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, #2. afternoon if they so desired. Our rebuttal would then be on Thursday afternoon. As soon as we received this word from Representative Henry 1 asked Mrs. Gilson Gardener, who is making the arrangements for the Hearing, to write at once to you and apprise you of the situation. If you wish to have longer than two and a half hours on Wednesday for the National Association, please let us know at once and we can arrange for a longer Hearing. We can have as long for our rebuttal as we desire, but I suppose that two hours will be enough. The present situation is, therefore, this: Our Hearing is from 10:30 to 1:00 on Wednesday and our rebuttal is on Thursday afternoon. Henry has not been willing as yet to set an exact hour for Thursday afternoon. The Antis will have Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning, if they so desire. What I meant by saying that our term of office would expire within a few days was, not that there would cease to be a Congressional Committee, but that the term of office of the present members of the Committee would expire. I quite see your point, of course, with regard to one Auxiliary Association collecting money at the Convention. Very sincerely yours, Alice Paul Chairman Congressional Committee AP/F Mrs. Medill McCormick Chairman Telephone Main 3497 [*Answered Jan 16 1914 Supplies*] Office National Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association Munsey Building Washington. D. C. January 13, 1914. Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, Corresponding Secretary, National American Woman Suffrage Association, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City. My dear Mrs. Dennett: - Your favor at hand. We will be glad indeed to receive the pictures. Will you permit me to criticise your policy in not having one of yourself on hand. Everything is moving along in very good shape here in Washington. I have made very full reports to Mrs. McCormick from day to day. I attended Miss Paul's meeting on Sunday, deeming it advisable to be there, for I was not certain what might be sprung on us, and I want to tell you that Miss Paul and her followers are very conciliatory in their attitude toward us, and it is my judgment that they do not want the news to go abroad that we are separate and distinct organizations. In her statement Miss Paul was most adroit. She said that the National had deemed it best for the two organizations to be separate in their officers, and she dealt at length on the fact that the Union was affiliated with the National. Of course, you know that the women present did not draw the line of demarcation. I have today issued a statement, a copy of which I enclose to you. I want to report to you that I saw Judge Henry, chairman of the Rules Committee, yesterday. He has been a good deal harassed, I understand, by Miss Paul. On one or two occasions he has had to leave his office when she came in because of her insistence with reference to his conduct. He told me yesterday that the Rules Committee would report favorably on a motion for a Committee on Suffrage, but asked me to treat his communication as confidential and suggested that I do not further work with the Committee. I did not know enough about the man to be sure that I could act on his suggestions, so I went to see Mr. Kelly, of Pennsylvania, -2- one of our friends on the Committee, and he said that Mr. Henry's statement was perfectly reliable. I am anxious now that they make a favorable report to do some work - some good hard work, with the States, certain of them in particular. I would like to have Illinois, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin stand approximately solid in their demand for a committee, if it can be arranged, and my first work is going to be in these three states. I have gone fully into this with Mrs. McCormick, so I will write you only the general situation. I have also written Mrs. McCormick that I am most anxious for some sort of a demonstration here for us, and have made suggestions along the line of what it seems possible we may do. As I get a little more definite and certain information will write you. I am convinced of one thing, and that is that there is a large field right here in Washington that has not been covered. We can cover it, but I fear not through the existing organizations in their present condition. The largest organization here, the Stanton Club, headed by Mrs. Allender, is hostile to us. Perhaps hostile is not the word, but they are working hand in glove with the Union. I had a very interesting conversation with Mrs. Kent on Sunday. She seemed disgruntled that the old Committee was not kept on. i told her this fact: that Miss Paul had said to me not once, but two or three times in the course of an evening's conversation that she had feared that the day might come when the National would not permit her to do as she thought best in the Washington work, and she had built up the Union that she might have an organization to work with at that time. She announces it now as a national organization which will do organizing work in the States where there is no organization, and will get up parades, solicit for money, etc, in states where we have an organization. It is going to be necessary for us to put up a hard, straight, clean fight for the National. I am sure that we are best equipped to do the real work, although Miss Paul can show spurts of strength in and about the District. I did not start out to write you a detailed account of things here. You have many details to keep track of, but I am so interested in getting this thing properly inaugurated I fear I am apt to grow garrulous over it. -3- By the way, a Mrs. Stoner, who is known to you, I am sure, is anxious to do some organizing work in North Carolina and Florida. It appears she is the wife of a Pullman official and has some transportation down in those states. She is familiar with the local situation and an ardent suffragist. She came to me and tendered her services to this committee. I thought at this time we did not just know what we could do, and advised her to write your office. She impressed me very favorably. You will perhaps be interested to know that I sent a challenge to the local anti-suffrage organization here to meet me in joint debate. They held a meeting here yesterday and the local antis voted to accept my challenge, but some of the timid ones among them prevailed upon them to put it up to Mrs. Dodge. I knew that had refused to debate with Doctor Shaw, but I thought perhaps a fresh, green Westerner might tempt them. I will take care of the literature when it comes. I think some of it should be placed over at the headquarters [that] the suffrage organizations - all except the Stanton - are trying to establish. With most cordial regards, Yours, Antoinette Funk AF-LA Enclosure MRS. MEDILL McCORMICK CHAIRMAN TELEPHONE MAIN 3597 [*Cong Com*] OFFICE National Congressional Committee OF THE National American Woman Suffrage Association MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON D. C. [*Answered JAN 16 1914 Supplies *] Jan. 14th - 1914 My Dear Mrs Dernutt - Dr. Shaw absent her services to make this letter unnecessary - but I send it anyway as you may keep it for reference - I also enclose clipping from morn paper-- Yours- A. Funk. MRS. MEDILL MCCORMICK CHAIRMAN MRS. ANTOINETTE FUNK EXECUTIVE VICE-CHAIRMAN 419 MUNSEY BLDG. Members MRS. SHERMAN M. BOOTH GLENCOE, ILL. MRS. HELEN H. GARDENER WASHINGTON, D. C. MISS ETHEL M. SMITH WASHINGTON, D. C. MRS. GLENNA SMITH TINNIN WASHINGTON, D. C. MRS. LAURA PUFFER MORGAN LINCOLN, NEB. MISS JEANETTE RANKIN MISSOULA, MONT. OFFICE National Congressional Committee OF THE National American Woman Suffrage Association MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. TELEPHONE MAIN 3597 Officers National Association DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW PRESIDENT MRS. STANLEY MCCORMICK FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT DR. KATHERINE B. DAVIS THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. SUSAN W. FITZGERALD RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. ORTEN H. CLARK CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MRS. HENRY WADE ROGERS TREASURER MRS. WALTER MCNAB MILLER FIRST AUDITOR MRS. MEDILL MCCORMICK SECOND AUDITOR 1913 Alaska WHITE STATES, FULL SUFFRAGE; SHADED STATES, PARTIAL SUFFRAGE; DOTTED STATE, PRESIDENTIAL, PARTIAL COUNTY AND STATE, MUNICIPAL SUFFRAGE; DARK STATES, NO SUFFRAGE. May 5, 1915 [*C.U*] Mrs. Katharine D. McCormick, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City. My dear Mrs. McCormick:- In re Hoboken meeting: I remained Sunday in Philadelphia in order that I might get back to Hoboken for the Monday meeting. I think it was a very wise thing for us to have had representation there; think it was well worth while, although the meeting was a dreadful mess, and I do not think will result in anything at all practical. Mrs. Wittpen strikes me as a well intentioned woman not at all in touch with the situation. Except for her social standing and what financial aid she may render, I imagine her assistance will be more or less negative. I felt myself in an extremely ticklish situation because Mrs. Feickert had confided to me that she considered the whole thing foolish, and more than that, I think she was inclined to resent an outsider asking women from outside the state to come in and suggest campaign methods to the women who have it in charge. The thought was not calculated to soothe her because the object of the meeting seemed to be to get up a committee to take the campaign work in hand. Mrs. Feickert had said to me that she felt certain Mrs. Catt would not come into a sister state and presume to dictate - or probably even suggest - so I knew I had to feel my way very cautiously and avoid giving any advice, which I did. I told them very frankly that I had closely followed Dr. Shaw's directions in an attempt to get cooperation from both organizations with the National Committee; that I had failed entirely as far as the Political Union was concerned; Mrs. K. McCormick -2 5-5-15. that Mrs. Feickert had been willing to cooperate in any way possible; that because of this we had departed from our rule of working only with the state organizations and were going in independently, although I said we expected to cooperate in any way possible with the existing organizations to our plan. Mrs. Feickert spoke with grant appreciation of what the National was trying to do. Well, as I say, the whole thing was somewhat messy. Somebody asked me whether or not outsiders coming in could know what ought to be done. I told them we had made the best survey possible, and if we were doing anything that the different organizations thought unwise we would of course be glad to have them consult with us - that this was the sort of cooperation we were seeking. The Political Union was not represented at all; although they made a sort of move to get a cooperative committee together I am sure it will fail, because as a matter of fact the organizations do not want such a committee. There were about 25 women present, a number from New York, one or two from Delaware, etc. Mrs. Catt, Mrs. Feickert and myself were the only ones called upon to speak. I got acquainted with Mrs. Wittpen, and as she is going to her country home in the summer she offered to cooperate in any work we might want to do in that section of the country. I am enclosing a copy of a letter received from Mrs. Catt, which will be self-explanatory. I am writing by this mail to the Christian Science Monitor. Mrs. Catt spoke of this matter at the luncheon. She said had she seen it in any paper other than the Monitor she would not have paid any attention to it, but seeing it there she took it seriously, for she says they rarely publish anything without closely verifying it. I have a number of little matters to tell you of in connection with Mrs. Catt, - nothing to write about, just little straws in the wind which pleased me much. The Shafroth pamphlet will go on the machine today. I fear I appear inexcusably slow in revising it. As a matter of fact it has been revised now three times. I wrote a short article to start with. It was good enough for people who understand about it, but might leave many questions in the minds of people who do not. Then I wrote a very full pamphlet which was really too long. I revised it and I think it is now solid meat. I want to ask you about the advisability of copyrighting this pamphlet. I suggest it for the reason that I think it should be used as part (not the first part) of your series of letters. Then I think later it should be made a part Mrs. S. McCormick -3 5-5-15. of a book which I am anxious to write. If the thing is any good I want it to be the property of the National, therefore I think it might be well to copyright it. Will you give me your opinion? The parade in Philadelphia was really a wonder. By the way, I think I have rounded up some campaign help over there. Dr. Shaw made a marvelous impression at the head of the procession. We were so late in starting our meeting that I spoke very briefly because I wanted to make way for her. Enclosed please find a letter from Miss Kimball. (I have mailed the check for $500 to Mrs. Rogers.) Sincerely yours, Antoinette Funk AF-LA Enclosure C O P Y April 30, 1915. Mrs. Antoinette Funk, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York. My dear Mrs. Funk, Thanks for your letter concerning Mrs. Morgan. I am sorry that anybody should have any other desire than to work for the New York campaign, but since it so happens, we must be resigned. The papers are saying queer things about New Jersey, and Mrs. Blatch told me yesterday, that she read in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, which usually gives rather straight information concerning suffrage matters, that although the vote was to be taken on October 19th, it would not be counted and made known to the public before November 5th. This seems a queer thing and does not sound straight to me. I wish you would make very careful investigation of this matter and let us all know the truth. If that is right, then New Jersey is not the nest suffrage State and there is no more reason for putting extra work there than on the other campaign states. It really ought to make a big difference in our general scheme. Most cordially yours, (Signed) Carrie Chapman Catt. C.R. MRS. MEDILL McCORMICK CHAIRMAN MRS. ANTOINETTE FUNK EXECUTIVE VICE-CHAIRMAN 419 MUNSEY BLDG. Members MRS. SHERMAN M. BOOTH GLENCOE, ILL. MRS. HELEN H. GARDENER WASHINGTON, D. C. MISS ETHEL M. SMITH WASHINGTON, D. C. MRS. GLENNA SMITH TINNIN WASHINGTON, D. C. MRS. LAURA PUFFER MORGAN LINCOLN, NEB. MISS JEANETTE RANKIN MISSOULA, MONT. OFFICE National Congressional Committee OF THE National American Woman Suffrage Association MUNSEY BUILDING WASHINGTON, D. C. TELEPHONE MAIN 3597 Officers National Association DR. ANNA HOWARD SHAW PRESIDENT MRS. STANLEY McCORMICK FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. DESHA BRECKINRIDGE SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT DR. KATHERINE B. DAVIS THIRD VICE-PRESIDENT MRS. SUSAN W. FITZGERALD RECORDING SECRETARY MRS. ORTEN H. CLARK CORRESPONDING SECRETARY MRS. HENRY WADE ROGERS TREASURER MRS. WALTER McNAB MILLER FIRST AUDITOR MRS. MEDILL McCORMICK SECOND AUDITOR 1745 Conway Bldg., Chicago, Ill., May 22, 1915. Mrs. Stanley McCormick, 505 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. Mr dear Mrs. McCormick:- I want to amplify my telegram to you to-day in reply to yours concerning the Shafroth resolution. I wrote Mrs. Upton a letter, after I reached Chicago, which I showed to Mrs. Medill McCormick before sending, and which was written after she had told me the position she felt we ought to take. After that, I saw Miss Dobyne, as you know, and I believe I sent you a copy of my letter to Mrs. McCormick regarding that interview. Miss Dobyne stated that if the Shafroth amendment were dropped, their Board would not withdraw from the National Association, as it was at present talking about doing. There was a letter from Mrs. Clark, of Michigan, telling that she was having difficulty holding her Board in line, and Mrs. Ueland, of Minnesota, wrote us a letter about the conference, the last sentence of which was that if it were not for the Shafroth amendment, she did not think she would have much trouble with her Board, but there were many women in Minnesota who were dissatisfied with the National on that score and were talking about going over to the Union. As the situation in each of these cases is so [obviously] similar to the Ohio situation, it seemed to me obvious that a similar reply was called for, and in writing these presidents acknowledging their letters and saying we were glad that they were coming to the conference, I saw that one of the subjects of discussion would be the Shafroth amendment, and that we hoped to have a thorough thrashing out of all differences of opinion and ultimate agreement. I did not say in any instance that the National Board would take any given action. I said, writing for Mrs. Medill McCormick, of course, in these letters, that the National Committee did not wish to complicate matters in the states, and was anxious to have a solution satisfactory to everybody. [*This was what she told me today*] Just after I had sent my telegram to you on this subject, Mr. Hallinan's message to Mrs. Medill about the threatened split in Virginia was received. It seems to emphasize the need of an attitude on the Committee's part, such as Mrs. Stanley McCormick, -2- May 22, 1915. Mrs. Medill has indicated, don't you think so? I am somewhat disturbed, however, lest your telegram implied that you were not pleased with something I had done. I should be very sorry if this is the case. Very sincerely yours, Ethel M. Smith [*A letter just received forwarded from Washington is from the West Virginia president, Mrs. Ebert, expressing her terror lest the Union organize there. Her Congressional Chairman, Mrs. McNeil in a Union adherent, I understand.*] [*[A????] City File*] INFORMAL MEETING OF THE NATIONAL CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE September 4, 1916. An informal meeting of the National Congressional Committee was h on Monday, September 4 at 8 p. m.., at the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel, the chairman, Mrs. Frank M. Roessing, presiding. There were present Mrs. Roessing, Mrs. T. T. Cotnam, of Arkansas, Mrs. C. W. McClure, of Michigan, Miss Martha Norris, of Ohio, and Miss Ruth White, of Missouri. The chairman presented her report, to be read at the convention. The report was read, and after discussion was signed by the members of the committee. Conferences with Congressional Union: There was a discussion of the value of conferences between the Congressional Committee of the National Association and the Congressional Union. The members of the Committee present were unanimously of the opinion that such conferences do not further work for the Federal Amendment. The chairman presented a proposed outline for discussion of the congressional work at the conference of state congressional chairman, to be held during the time of the convention. This plan discussed at length and approved by the Committee. There was a discussion of the advisability of moving National Headquarters to Washington. The Committee agreed that such a change would be of great value to the work for the Federal Amendment. The Chairman requested each number of the Committee to submit written suggestions for changes of policy and method in the congressional work for the benefit of the new committee. At 11:15 p. m. the meeting adjourned. Ruth White Secretary National Congressional Committee [*Ans*] Ohio Woman Suffrage Association Honorary President, Frances M. Casement, Painesville President HARRIET TAYLOR UPTON Warren First Vice President ZARA duPONT Second Vice President DORA SANDOE BACHMAN 506 Grand Theater Bldg., Columbus Third Vice President ANNA B. JOHNSON Springfield Recording Secretary MARGARET J. BRANDENBURG Oxford Corresponding Secretary MRS. KENT W. HUGHES 1231 Lakewood, Lima Treasurer ZELL HART DEMING Warren Member National Executive Committee MRS. O. F. DAVISSON 307 Central Ave., Dayton HEADQUARTERS: MASONIC BLDG., WARREN, OHIO December 1, 1916. Mrs. Walter NcNab Miller, Munsey Building, Washington, D. C. Dear Mrs. Miller: I am enclosing a clipping which you will enjoy(?). Doesn't it beat everything how the newspapers and the public generally cannot distinguish between our association [and] [*from*] the Congressional Union? I have just been making it my business to write a long letter of explanation to the editors of my state. I have told them that I was not writing them expecting them to publish the letter but that I did want them to understand that many, many years before the Congressional Union was formed, and perhaps before some of the young women connected with it were born, the National American Woman Suffrage Association had a congressional committee at work in Washington. Having gone over my poll of congressmen again, I have picked out four and am going to try hard to bring them all around. I will probably land one. We have been perfecting organizations in some of the districts lately and it is for that reason that we hope to change their opinions. Am so glad the Congressional Committee is going on with the effective work begun last year because we all know among ourselves that some of the work which preceded it was largely on paper. Cordially yours, [*Harriet Taylor Upton*] HTU-MCS. Transcribed and reviewed by contributors participating in the By The People project at crowd.loc.gov.