Wesley L. Jones (Wash.); Moses E. Clapp (Minn.); Thomas B.
Catron (N. M.). The last named was an opponent of woman suffrage by
any method and was the only member who did not sign the favorable
report. Senator Ransdell at first said that he had an open mind but he
soon placed himself on the suffrage side, signed the report and later
voted several times in favor of the amendment.

The immediate object of the National American Association at the
present moment was to secure a Committee on Woman Suffrage in the
Lower House such as had long existed in the Senate. A resolution to
create such a committee had been introduced April 7 by Edward T.
Taylor (Colo.) and referred to the Committee on Rules. The hearing at
the regular session during this convention, therefore, was before this
committee, which would have to recommend the Woman Suffrage Committee
to the House, and it was set for 10:30 A.M., December 3. As soon as
the application was made the National Anti-Suffrage Association also
asked to be heard, and Chairman Henry, who was opposed to the proposed
new committee and to woman suffrage, announced that he proposed to
allow both sides all the time they wanted. The leaders of the National
Suffrage Association stated that they would ask for only the usual two
hours and would not discuss the general question of woman suffrage but
only the need of a special committee. Their arguments were concluded
at the morning session. The "antis" began after luncheon with massed
forces and talked the entire afternoon and all of the next day and
part of the third, covering the whole subject of woman suffrage, with
the appointment of the committee only one feature of it. Several of
their men speakers consumed nearly an hour each and were repeatedly
requested by the chairman to face the committee instead of the
audience, which filled the largest room in the House office building.
The first morning all of the committee were present but they gradually
dwindled until during the latter part of the "antis'" arguments only
two or three were in their seats, not including the chairman[81]. Only
limited extracts of the speeches are possible. Dr. Shaw presided and
said:

Our purpose in coming before you this morning is not to make any
attempt whatever to convert the members of the Rules Committee,
if they should need converting, to the democratic principle of
the right of the people to have a voice in their own government.
It