g sentences of Miss Todd's
speech it became a heated dialogue between her and the members of the
committee.

Miss Paul said in introducing Miss Frances Jolliffe: "She is a strong
Democrat who campaigned for President Wilson and Senator Phelan and is
one of the envoys sent by the women's convention in San Francisco, at
which there were present 10,000 people who bade her 'Godspeed' on this
journey."[102] The beginning of her speech was as follows: "I am here
as a messenger from the women voters of the West. Perhaps first I
should offer my apologies to the minority for appearing at all; for,
gentlemen, I did my level best to defeat the Republican candidate for
the Senate last year and I think I did a good deal to defeat him when
I went before the women and told them they could not send back----"

Mr. Volstead spoke quickly saying: "Will you pardon me an
interruption? Was that the pay you gave the Republicans for giving you
almost as many votes in the House as the Democrats gave you, and that
despite the fact that the Democrats had a two-thirds majority in the
House? That is, less than one-half of the vote in favor of your
proposition came from the Democrats and more than five out of every
six who voted against it were Democrats." The controversy kept up and
when Mrs. Sara Bard Field, the other "envoy," commenced her speech she
begged that she might finish it without interruption. Toward the
close, however, the hearing became a free-for-all debating society,
the discussion filling seven pages of the official report. Miss Paul's
closing remarks caused the debate to be continued through another six
pages. "Can you tell me what will be in the platform of the Democratic
party in 1916?" she asked Chairman Webb. "I can tell you one plank
that will not be in it and that is a plank in favor of woman
suffrage," he answered. The retorts of the women were clever but both
Republican and Democratic members of the committee were very much out
of humor and not in a very good frame of mind to make a favorable
report.

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The hearing of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
followed immediately. Its president, Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge, said in
opening their hearing: "We have come here today to ask you as a
committee not to report this bill favorably to the House, because we
consider that, in the first place, it is a question of State's rights.
In the second place we consider that the wome