rage in New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts this fall. Nearly 800,000
were cast in Ohio, Missouri, the Dakotas and Nebraska last fall,
besides the popular vote of the equal suffrage States and Illinois.
The total of these figures from twenty-one States is 6,400,000--that
is, 191,000 more than were cast for President Wilson in forty-eight
States. Would Congress fail to recognize such voting strength upon any
other issue?

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The rest of the time was given to the Congressional Union, its
chairman, Miss Alice Paul, presiding. The speakers were Mrs. Andreas
Ueland, president of the Minnesota Suffrage Association; Miss Mabel
Vernon of Nevada; Mrs. Jennie Law Hardy, an Australian residing in
Michigan; Mrs. Florence Bayard Hilles of Delaware; Miss Helen Todd,
Miss Frances Jolliffe and Mrs. Sara Bard Field of California. The
first two speakers proceeded without interruption but when Mrs. Hardy
said that by marrying in the United States she found herself
disfranchised, the committee woke up. After questioning her on this
point Mr. Steele of Pennsylvania asked her how she accounted for the
large defeat the second time the suffrage amendment was submitted in
Michigan and she answered: "I account for it partly by the fact that
this was the only State having a campaign that year and the whole
opposition was centered there. The liquor interests themselves
admitted that they spent a million dollars to defeat it."

The address of Mrs. Hilles also brought out a flood of questions,
which, with the answers made by Miss Paul, filled four printed pages
of the official report. They began with requests for information about
the difficulties of amending State constitutions but soon centered on
the campaign of the Union against the Democrats in 1914 and this line
was followed throughout the rest of the hearing, the Federal Amendment
being largely lost sight of. The members showed deep personal
resentment. For example:

Mr. Taggart (Kan.). Your organization spent a lot of time and
money trying to defeat men on this committee that you are now
before, did it not?

Miss Paul. We went out into the suffrage States and told the
women voters what was done to the suffrage amendment by the last
Congress.

Mr. Taggart. We have before us a joint suffrage resolution by Mr.
Taylor of Colorado. You tried to defeat him, did you not?

Miss Paul. The su