* * *

The Rules Committee met January 24, 1914, with eight of the fourteen
members present and Mr. Lenroot moved to report favorably the
resolution for a Woman Suffrage Committee. Representatives Foster
(Ills.), Campbell (Kans.) and Kelly (Penn.) joined him;
Representatives Hardwick (Ga.), Pou (N. C.), Cantrill (Ky.) and
Garrett (Tenn.) opposed. Mr. Lenroot then moved to report it without
recommendation and there was a tie vote. Enough signatures were
secured for the calling of a Democratic caucus on February 3 but just
before it convened a meeting of Democrats was held in the office of
Representative Oscar J. Underwood (Ala.) and it was decided by a vote
of 123 to 55 that suffrage was a State and not a Federal question and
no further action on a special committee was taken.

FOOTNOTES:

[78] Call: For the forty-fifth time in its history the National
American Woman Suffrage Association summons its members together in
council. By thus assembling, one more united step toward the final
emancipation of the women of this country is made practicable.... To
the wise and courageous, to those not fearful of the changes demanded
by the vital needs of growing humanity, this Call will have two
meanings: first, it will speak of loyalty to work and to comrade
workers; of large undertakings worthily begun and to be worthily
finished; of the stimulus of difficulty; of joy in the exercise of
talents and strength; of the self-control and ability required for
cooperation.

Second, it will express--like other summons of women to women
throughout the ages--the need not alone for counsel and comfort but
also for the preservation of all they hold most high--for that to
which they gladly give their lives. It will speak of the struggle for
development which individual women have made; of the opportunities
they have won for each other; of the unequivocal demand for the best,
to which the few have led the many....

To you who grasp the underlying meaning of this struggle; to you who
know yourselves akin to those who have preceded and to those who will
follow; to you who are daily making this ideal a reality, this Call is
sent.

ANNA HOWARD SHAW, President.
JANE ADDAMS, Vice-President.
CHARLOTTE ANITA WHITNEY, Second Vice-President.
MARY WARE DENNETT, Executive Secretary.
SUSAN WALKER FITZGERALD, Recording Sec