ort as from
the Congressional Committee be accepted, which was done by the
convention. She then asked what was the relation between the two and
why, if this was a regular committee of the National American
Association, no appropriation had been made for its work during the
coming year and why there was no statement in the treasurer's report
of its expenditures during the past year. It developed that the
committee had raised and expended its own funds, which had not passed
through the national treasury, and that the Congressional Union was a
society formed the preceding April to assist the work of the
committee. It was moved by Mrs. Catt and carried that the convention
request the Official Board to continue the Congressional Committee and
to cooperate with it in such a way as to remove further causes of
embarrassment to the association. The motion was amended that the
board should appropriate what money could be spared for the work of
this committee.[80]

The movement for woman suffrage was now so plainly centering in
Congress, which had been the goal for over forty years, that there was
a widespread feeling that the national headquarters should be
established in Washington. Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, a delegate from
New York, through whose generosity it had been possible to take them
to that city in 1909, offered a motion that they now be removed to
Washington. She had given notice of this action the preceding day and
the opponents were prepared. A motion to lay it on the table was
quickly made and all discussion cut off. The opposition of the
national officers was so apparent that many delegates hesitated to
express their convictions for the affirmative but nevertheless the
vote stood 134 ayes, and 169 noes.

The National Association had now so many auxiliaries and so much work
was being done in all the States that the day sessions were largely
consumed in hearing reports from them and the usual conferences and
symposiums were almost crowded off the program. For the first time
Hawaii took her place among the auxiliaries, a suffrage society having
been formed there during the year. At one of the morning sessions U.
S. Senator Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota was presented to the convention
and extended a pressing invitation to hold its next meeting in St.
Paul. Later this invitation was repeated in a cordial invitation from
Governor Adolph O. Eberhard. At another morning session Representative
Kenneth McKellar of Tennesse