s of various colleges and the topic
of all the speeches was, "How to advance women suffrage by making
friends instead of enemies." The speakers included Dr. Shaw, Mrs.
Charles L. Tiffany, Mrs. Raymond Brown, Mrs. Medill McCormick, Miss
Florence Stiles, Mrs. Frank M. Roessing, Miss Hannah J. Patterson,
Mrs. Elizabeth Puffer Howes and Mrs. Laura Puffer Morgan.

The convention sent a telegram of sympathy in her illness to Miss Jane
Addams. A special vote of thanks was tendered to Senators Charles S.
Thomas and John F. Shafroth and to Representative Edward T. Taylor,
all of Colorado, and to Representative Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming for
the very great assistance they had given to the Congressional
Committee. A cordial invitation came from the Chicago suffrage
headquarters for the delegates to accept its hospitality during the
National Republican Convention in June, 1916. Invitations for the next
convention were received from St. Louis, Little Rock and Atlantic
City.

Mrs. Medill McCormick, chairman of the Congressional Committee,
introduced Mrs. Antoinette Funk, its vice chairman, who told of the
strong and successful effort made to have the Committee on Rules
ignore the adverse action of the Democratic caucus and send the
resolution to the Lower House for action after the Judiciary Committee
had reported it without recommendation. The date finally set for the
debate in the House was Jan. 12, 1915. Her report was in part as
follows:

From the moment the resolution was reported by the Judiciary
Committee the energies of the Congressional Committee were
directed toward the end of bringing out as large a favorable vote
as was humanly possible and all the members of the committee then
resident in Washington undertook some portion of the task. The
leaders of both sides of the House, Mr. Mondell for the
Republicans and Mr. Taylor for the Democrats, gave us their
heartiest support. Through them and through the courtesy of the
Speaker of the House, Mr. Champ Clark, we learned what members
would be recognized for speeches, and each man who had asked for
time or who had been asked to speak because of his locality or
for other reasons was interviewed. Our cooperation in the matter
of gathering up suffrage data and material was offered and freely
accepted. All suffrage literature known to us was brought in
large quantities into our office and assorted into s