History of woman suffrage (1881) (14778322302)

Identifier: historyofwomansu05stan (find matches)
Title: Suffrage House, Washington headquarters of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
Year:1917, 1918 or 1919
Authors: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902 Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 1826-1898 Harper, Ida Husted, 1851-1931
Subjects: Women
Publisher: New York, Fowler & Wells
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ational Association had appointedMrs. Maud Wood Park (Mass.), a founder and organizer of theNational College Womens Suffrage League, who had taken upthe work in March. The association, whose headquarters werein New York City, had enlarged its staff in Washington andtaken a large house for this committee and its work. There onApril 2 the first woman ever elected to Congress, Miss JeannetteRankin of Montana, was entertained at breakfast, made a speechfrom an upper balcony and was escorted to the Capitol by Mrs.Carrie Chapman Catt, national president, at the head of a caval-cade of decorated automobiles, filled with suffragists. That daythe President asked Congress for a declaration of war againstGermany. The resolution for the Federal Suffrage Amendmentwas to have been the first introduced in the Senate but the WarResolution took its place and it became Number Two on thecalendar. Senator Thomas had given up the chairmanship of theCommittee on Woman Suffrage and Senator Andrieus A. Jones
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BALCONY OF THE NATIONAL SUFFRAGE HEADQUARTERS IN WASHINGTON.Mrs. Helen H. Gardener, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Maud Wood Park FEDERAL AMENDMENT FOP WOMAN SUFFRAGE 633 (N. M.) had been appointed. Senators Nelson (Minn.), John-son (S. D.) Cummins (Iowa) and Johnson (Cal.) had beenadded to the committee and Senators Ashurst, Sutherland, Clappand Catron had retired. In the House the resolution was introduced by RepresentativesRankin, Raker, Mondell, Taylor, Keating and Hayden. BothHouses agreed that only legislation pertaining to the war programshould be considered during the extra session, which excluded theamendment, but there were some forms of work not prohibited.On April 20 the Senate Committee gave a hearing on it with Mrs.Catt in charge and very strong addresses were made by her andby Senators Shafroth (Colo.), Kendrick (Wyo.), Walsh(Mont.), Smoot (Utah), Thomas, Thompson and RepresentativeRankin. Thousands of copies were franked and given to theNational Association for distrib

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