E. Burns (Mich.) was chairman
reported resolutions that urged the U. S. Senate and House of
Representatives to take up at once the amendments now pending in
Congress for the enfranchisement of women; demanded equal pay for
equal work and legislation to protect the nationality of American
women who married foreigners. They re-affirmed the association's past
policy of non-partisanship and declared that "the National American
Woman Suffrage Association is absolutely opposed to holding any
political party responsible for the opinions and acts of its
individual members, or holding any individual public official or
candidate responsible for the action of his party majority on the
question of woman suffrage." Of the European war now in its fourth
month, the resolutions said:

WHEREAS: It is our conviction that had the women of the countries
of Europe, with their deep instinct of motherhood and desire for
the conservation of life, possessed a voice in the councils of
their governments, this deplorable war would never have been
allowed to occur; therefore, be it

RESOLVED: That the National American Woman Suffrage Association,
in convention assembled, does hereby affirm the obligation of
peace and good will toward all men and further demands the
inclusion of women in the government of nations of which they are
a part, whose citizens they bear and rear and whose peace their
political liberty would help to secure and maintain.

RESOLVED: That we commend the efforts of President Wilson to
obtain peace. Sympathizing deeply with the plea of the women of
fifteen nations, we ask the President of the United States and
the representatives of all the other neutral nations to use their
best endeavors to bring about a lasting peace founded upon
democracy and world-wide disarmament.

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As the national convention for 1914 would meet in Nashville it was
necessary to have a special delegation attend the "hearing" in
Washington which always was held at the first session of a new
Congress. The officers of the Congressional Union arranged for one
before the House Judiciary Committee for March 3, and, as it was not
likely that a second would be granted, Mrs. Medill McCormick, Mrs.
Antoinette Funk and Mrs. Sherman Booth represented the National
American Association at this one, as members of its Congressional
Committee.