retary.
KATHARINE DEXTER MCCORMICK, Treasurer.
HARRIET BURTON LAIDLAW,}
LOUISE DEKOVEN BOWEN, } Auditors

[79] The first delegation received by President Wilson after his
inauguration was a group of eight or ten suffragists. It was arranged
by Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the Congressional Committee of the
National Suffrage Association. They stated their case in a few words
and quoted freely from his book, The New Freedom. The President was
very courteous but his attitude was one of amused curiosity.

[80] When the board met after the convention it was disclosed that the
Congressional Union, instead of being merely a local society to assist
the committee in its efforts with Congress, as Miss Paul had said, was
a national organization to work for the Federal Amendment. That is, it
was to duplicate the work which the National Association had been
formed to do in 1869 and had brought to its present advanced stage.
The association's letterheads had been used for this purpose and
persons from all parts of the country had sent their names and money,
many supposing they were assisting the National Association. Miss Paul
had been obtaining names for membership in the Union during all the
sessions of the convention. The board decided that there must be
complete separation of the work of the committee and the Union; that
the same person could not be at the head of both and that the plans of
the Union must be regularly submitted to the Board. Miss Paul refused
to accept these conditions and she was at once relieved from the
chairmanship of the Congressional Committee and the other members
resigned. The Union was continued as a separate organization. Another
committee was appointed by the National American Association
consisting of Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, chairman; Mrs. Antoinette
Funk, Mrs. Sherman Booth, all of Illinois, Mrs. Desha Breckinridge
(Ky.), Mrs. Helen H. Gardener (D. C.), Mrs. H. Edward Dreier (N. Y.),
Mrs. James Tucker (Calif.). Headquarters were opened in the Munsey
Building, Washington, with the Illinois women in charge.

[81] Hubert L. Henry (Tex.), Chairman; Edward W. Pou (N. C.); Thomas
W. Hardwick (Ga.); Finis J. Garrett (Tenn.); Martin D. Foster (Ills.);
James C. Cantrill (Ky.); Henry W. Goldfogle (N. Y.); Philip P.
Campbell (Kans.); Irvine L. Lenroot (Wis.); Edwin A. Merritt, Jr. (N.
Y.); M. Clyde Kelly (Penn.).

CHAPTER XIV.