ause, her many labors and hardships and
her innumerable and powerful addresses, which have won adherents
to woman suffrage not only throughout the United States but in
foreign lands.

We highly appreciate President Wilson's action in declaring in
favor of the principle of equal suffrage and in stating his
belief in the good results to be expected from its adoption.

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As the resolution to submit the Federal Suffrage Amendment to the
State Legislatures for ratification had been lost in the Senate and
House of the 63rd Congress it was necessary to begin again with the
64th. Usually the hearings before the committees of the two Houses
were held at the same time and the convention adjourned so the
delegates might be present but at this time the one for the National
American Association before the Senate was set for the morning of
December 15 and the one before the House for the following day. It
adjourned for the first one but as the second promised to be long
drawn out only a delegation went with Dr. Shaw and she returned to the
convention after she had made the opening speech.

At the Senate hearings the chairman, Senator Charles S. Thomas (Col.),
presided and members present were Senators Hollis (N. H.); Clapp
(Minn.); Sutherland (Utah); Catron (N. M.); Jones (Wash.). The other
members, Senators Owen (Okla.) and Johnson (S. Dak.), were suffragists
and probably were out of town. Senator Catron was the only opponent.
Senator Ransdell was added to the committee the second day. On the
third day only Senators Hollis, Clapp, Sutherland and Jones attended.
The time was divided among the representatives of the National
Association, the Congressional Union and the National Anti-Suffrage
Association, the first taking from 10 to 12 o'clock Wednesday; the
second from 10 to 11:30 Thursday; the third from 2 to 3:15 Monday. The
joint resolution for the amendment had been introduced by Senators
Thomas and Sutherland.

On the first day Chairman Thomas said: "This meeting of the Senate
Committee on Woman Suffrage is called at the instance of the National
Association of which Dr. Anna Howard Shaw is the honored president.
The hearing will be conducted under the auspices of that association
and by her direction. Dr. Shaw, we will be glad to hear you now." Dr.
Shaw said in part:

For thirty-seven years this amendment has been introduced and
re-introduced