mindedness and devotion have been
remarkable and the whole movement in the country has been
wonderfully furthered by the series of important events which
have taken place in Washington, beginning with the great parade
the day before the inauguration of the President. Several of the
national officers have made special trips to Washington to assist
at these various events--the March parade, the Senate hearing,
the April 7th deputation to Congress, the July 31st Senate
demonstration and the Conference of Women Voters in August. An
automobile trip was made from headquarters the last week in July,
with outdoor meetings held all the way to Washington, to join the
other "pilgrims" who came from all over the country. Mrs. Rheta
Childe Dorr, Miss Helen Todd, Mrs. Frances Maule Bjorkman and the
corresponding secretary were the speakers for the trip.

Petitions to Congress were circulated, special letters on behalf
of the association were sent to the members of the Senate
Committee before the report was made, and to the Rules Committee
urging the appointment of a Woman Suffrage Committee for the
House. Miss Elinor Byrns, assisted by another lawyer, Miss Helen
Ranlett, has made a chart of the legislation in the suffrage
States since the women have been enfranchised. A collection of
all the State constitutions has been made with the sections
bearing on amendments and the qualifications for voting marked
and indexed.

The following telegram was sent by the National Board April 4 to
Premier Asquith: "We urge that the British Government frankly
acknowledge its responsibility for the present intolerable
situation and remove it by introducing immediately an emergency
franchise measure."

The report of Miss Byrns, chairman of the Press Committee, which
filled eight printed pages, showed the usual vast amount of press
work, as described in other chapters. "There now exists," she said, "a
most remarkable and unprecedented demand for information about
suffragists and suffrage events. We are 'news' as we have never been
before. Moreover, we are not only amusing and sometimes picturesque
but we are of real intellectual and political interest." Mrs.
Bjorkman, editor and secretary of the Literature Committee, devoted a
full report of ten pages to the recent and widely varied publications
of the associati