e addressed the convention and invited it
to meet in Chattanooga the next year. The last evening there was not
standing room in the large theater. Miss Harriet May Mills, president
of the New York State Suffrage Association, took for her subject A
Prophecy Fulfilled and gave convincing reasons for believing that the
successful end of the long contest was near. Mrs. Katharine Houghton
Hepburn made a strong arraignment of Commercialized Vice, using her
own city of Hartford, Conn., for an example. Mrs. Catt gave the last
address, a comprehensive review of the advanced position that had been
attained by women and the great responsibilities it had brought. Dr.
Shaw, who presided, spoke the final inspiring words.

A delightful ending of the week was the reception the last afternoon
in the hospitable home of Senator and Mrs. Robert M. LaFollette. Three
members of the Cabinet were among the guests, Secretaries Lane,
Houston and Daniels. Those in the receiving line were: Senator and
Mrs. LaFollette, Dr. Shaw and Mrs. Catt; also Mrs. Franklin K. Lane,
Mrs. Josephus Daniels, Mrs. Albert Sidney Burleson, Mrs. David
Franklin Houston, Mrs. Miles Poindexter, Mrs. Reed Smoot, Mrs. Victor
Murdock, Mrs. Wm. L. LaFollette, Mrs. J. W. Bryan, Mrs. John E. Raker,
Mrs. James A. Frear, Mrs. Henry T. Rainey, Mrs. Albert B. Cummins,
Mrs. John D. Works and Mrs. William Kent, all members of the Cabinet
and Congressional circles, and the husbands of most of them were
present. To the older members of the association it recalled the
conventions of olden times when even the wives of members of Congress,
with a few rare exceptions, feared to attend the social functions lest
it might injure the political status of their husbands.

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The Senate committee of the Sixty-third Congress had already granted
three hearings on woman suffrage during its extra session: on April
10, 1913, to representatives of the Anti-Suffrage Association; on
April 21 to those of the Federal Women's Equality Association and on
April 26 to those of the National American Suffrage Association. This
new committee, which the advocates of the Federal Suffrage Amendment
will always remember with deep appreciation for its firm and favorable
action, consisted of the following Senators: Charles S. Thomas
(Colo.), chairman; Robert L. Owen (Okla.); Henry F. Ashurst (Ariz.);
Joseph E. Ransdell (La.); Henry P. Hollis (N. H.); George Sutherland
(Utah);