to Baltimore
for the procession of May 31. The play given in Washington was
reproduced in Baltimore for the benefit of one of the suffrage
societies there. A week's campaign was conducted in the four
southern counties of Maryland prior to the primary election, at
the request of one of the State's societies.

The Congressional Union was formed during the latter part of
April and now numbers over a thousand members.

Congressional Work.

Senate and House Joint Resolution Number One for Federal
Amendment introduced in Congress April 7, 1913.

Woman Suffrage Committee of Senate voted on May 14 to report the
resolution favorably and did so unanimously, one not voting. On
July 31 twenty-two Senators spoke in favor of the resolution and
three against it. On September 18 Senator Andrieus Jones (N. M.)
spoke in favor and asked for immediate action. On the same day
Senator Henry F. Ashurst (Ariz.) announced on the floor of the
Senate that he would press the measure to a vote at the earliest
possible moment.

Three resolutions were introduced in the House for the creation
of a Woman Suffrage Committee and referred to the Rules Committee
and are still before it.

The amendment resolution is awaiting third reading in the Senate
and is before the Judiciary Committee of the House.

The action of the Senate was due to the fact that under the new
administration a committee had been appointed which was favorable to
woman suffrage instead of one opposed as heretofore, with a chairman,
Senator Charles S. Thomas of Colorado, who had helped the women of his
own State to secure the suffrage twenty years before. The resolutions
in the Lower House were introduced by old and tried friends and the
association's new Congressional Committee had arranged hearings,
brought pressure to bear on members and not permitted them to forget
or ignore the question. Miss Agnes E. Ryan, business manager of the
_Woman's Journal_, said in her account: "The convention received the
report with enthusiastic applause, giving three cheers and rising to
its feet to show its appreciation."

This report was signed by Miss Paul as "chairman of the Congressional
Committee and president of the Congressional Union" and she said at
the beginning that it was impossible to separate the work of the two.
At its conclusion Mrs. Catt moved that the part of the rep