d of Mrs. Funk of Illinois; Miss Hay of New
York; Mrs. Jacobs of Alabama; Mrs. Cotnam of Arkansas; Mrs. C. S.
McClure of Michigan; Mrs. Valentine of Virginia; Miss Martha
Norris of Ohio; Mrs. Elizabeth Higgins Sullivan of Nebraska and
Miss Ruth White of Missouri.

Mrs. Funk resigned March 14 to take up other work and in July
Miss White was appointed secretary and has done much special
work. Because of the amount of travel involved only two meetings
of the full committee have been held, on March 2 and September 4.
Every plan for congressional work has been submitted to the
National Board or to the national president for approval.

Revision of Work: At the beginning of the present year the work
of the National Association was revised and departmentalized, the
organization branch was separated from the congressional work,
made a distinct department, placed under another head and
operated from the New York office. This division was advisable,
since each task is big enough by itself. The only disadvantage
resulted from the distance between the bases of operation of the
two departments--one of the paramount reasons for the removal of
all the headquarters to Washington.... The work of the committee
in 1916 consisted of the supervision and direction of all
activity connected with the Federal Amendment, including lobby
work at the Capitol; the stimulating of congressional activity in
the States; the cataloguing of information concerning Senators
and Representatives; the assembling and filing of all information
specifically relating to the Federal Amendment in Congress and in
the States; the issuing of newspaper articles; the handling of
the large correspondence.

Headquarters: The chairman had been on duty only a short time
when the necessity for removing national headquarters to
Washington was deeply impressed upon her--so deeply that she made
a special trip to New York to labor with the national officers
there to this end but was unsuccessful. The headquarters of the
Congressional Committee at the opening of this session consisted
of two rooms in the Munsey Building at Washington too diminutive
to hold even our furniture, to say nothing of our workers. On
February 19 it moved to two larger rooms in the same building.

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