ree for distribution and some have to be paid for.
Hearings are usually limited to a small number but the committee
strains a point for those on woman suffrage and prints about 10,000,
which may be had without charge. If a member is kind enough to "frank"
them nothing else must be put in the envelope under penalty of a $300
fine. If more are wanted they must be ordered in 5,000 lots and a
member can get a reduced rate, but, while he is always willing to pay
the Government for printing his speech, those who want it for their
own purposes should send the money for it. The speech of
Representative Edward T. Taylor of Colorado in 1912 was cited as an
example, of which the suffragists circulated 300,000 copies.

The resolutions presented by Mrs. Helen Brewster Owens (N. Y.),
chairman, were brief and to the point. They called on the Senate to
pass immediately the joint resolution proposing an amendment to the
National Constitution, which had been favorably reported; they urged
President Wilson to adopt the submission of this amendment as an
administration measure and to recommend it in his Message; they urged
the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives to report
favorably the proposition to create a Committee on Woman Suffrage; and
they demanded legislation by Congress to protect the nationality of
American women who married aliens.

Strong pressure had been made on the President to mention woman
suffrage in his Message, his first to a regular session of Congress,
but it was delivered on Tuesday, December 2, with no reference
whatever to the subject. At the meeting of the convention that evening
Dr. Shaw said with the manifest approval of the audience: "President
Wilson had the opportunity of speaking a word which might ultimately
lead to the enfranchisement of a large part of the citizens of the
United States. Even Lincoln, who by a word freed a race, had not such
an opportunity to release from bonds one-half of the human family. I
feel that I must make this statement as broad as it is for the reason
that we at Budapest this year realized as never before that womankind
throughout the world looked to this country to blaze the way for the
extension of universal suffrage in every quarter of the globe.
President Wilson has missed the one thing that might have made it
possible for him never to be forgotten. I am saying this on behalf of
myself and my fellow officers."

The next morning Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, a clev