at resolutions favoring suffrage for women
be passed. They were not successful but presented their cause. In
1912-13 the suffragists were busy among other things in agitating the
question of having a woman as Juvenile Court Judge. President Taft
practically promised the appointment, but the male incumbent was
allowed to hold over another year. A meeting of women lawyers was held
and a committee appointed to call on Attorney General Wickersham to
urge the name of Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, then Dean of the
Washington College of Law. She was endorsed by several thousand men
and women, over six hundred of whom were teachers in the public
schools and familiar with Mrs. Mussey's excellent work on the Board of
Education, but no woman was appointed. (In 1918 Miss Kathryn Sellers,
president of the College Women's Equal Suffrage League, was appointed
by President Wilson.)

On March 3, the day before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, for the
first time women marched on Pennsylvania Avenue. The parade was
arranged by the Congressional Committee of the National Association,
of which Miss Alice Paul was chairman. Objection being made by
Superintendent of Police Sylvester to giving a permit, the women
appealed to the Senate Committee for the District on the ground that
as citizens and tax-payers they had the right to use the avenue, and a
joint resolution was passed by Congress granting it. Adequate police
protection, however, was not given, indeed some of the police
themselves hooted and jeered with the mob which attacked the paraders.
Doubtless it was composed of persons who had come from outside to the
inauguration. It took three hours to march the mile from the Peace
Monument to the Treasury, where tableaux were given on the steps.
Finally it was necessary to call the troops from Fort Myer. The Senate
ordered an investigation and the Police Superintendent resigned. It
was said that this parade won thousands of friends for the cause of
woman suffrage.

This year the Congressional Union was organized to work in the
District and the States solely for the Federal Suffrage Amendment,
with Miss Paul chairman, Miss Lucy Burns, Mrs. Crystal Eastman, Mrs.
Mary Beard and Mrs. Lawrence Lewis the other officers. It had its own
headquarters and was not affiliated with the National American
Association.

In 1914 the suffragists protested again, this time to the Chamber of
Commerce, against a constitutional amendment sponsored by it to
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