f asking the National Association to cooperate in
organizing a great suffrage parade to take place in Washington the day
before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson. Dr. Shaw had seen and taken
part in such parades in London and was favorably inclined to the
project. She put Miss Paul at the head of the Congressional Committee
with power to choose the other members to organize the parade, with
the proviso that they must themselves raise all the money for it but
they could have the authority of the National Association letterheads.
Headquarters were opened in a basement on F Street near the New
Willard Hotel in Washington. They displayed astonishing executive
ability, gathered about them a small army of women and during the next
twelve months raised $27,378, the larger part of it in Washington and
most of the remainder in Philadelphia. The parade was long, beautiful
and impressive, women from many States participating. The report of
the Congressional Committee presented to the convention by Miss Paul
slightly condensed, read as follows:

Work for Federal Amendment:

Headquarters were opened in Washington, Jan. 2, 1913.

Hearings were arranged before the Woman Suffrage Committee of the
Senate; before the Rules Committee of the House, when members of
the National Council of Women Voters were the speakers; before
the Rules Committee during the present convention.

Processions: March 3, when from 8,000 to 10,000 women
participated; April 7, when women from congressional districts
went to Congress with petitions and resolutions; July 31, when an
automobile procession met the "pilgrims" at the end of their
"hike" and escorted them through the streets of Washington to the
Senate. This procession was headed by an automobile in which rode
several of the Suffrage Committee of the Senate.

Pilgrimages coming from all parts of the country and extending
over the month of July were organized, about twelve. These all
ended in Washington on July 31, when approximately 200,000
signatures to petitions were presented to the Senate.

Deputations: Three deputations to the President were organized
immediately preceding the calling of the special session of
Congress in order to ask him to give the administration support
to the suffrage amendment during the special session. One of
these was from the National Association, one from the Col