nce, etc., was given and the report said
of the lobby work:

All the direct work with Senators and Congressmen is a time as
well as brain consuming process. Usually it means tramping up and
down the long stone corridors, hour after hour, in order to find
one man in his office. Then he may be having a committee meeting
or a previous engagement or emergency business and you are
invited to come some other day. Perhaps you have waited an hour
before you are sure that he can not see you. It is not uncommon
for the members of our lobby to state that they have made as many
as six, eight or ten calls before they succeeded in reaching a
man. Speaking from my own knowledge, I have wasted hours at the
Capitol trying to see men who would not make appointments. I have
called eighteen times to see one man and have not seen him yet!
He is the Representative from my own district. We carried the
district for suffrage in Pennsylvania last year but I am told
that he does not want to vote for the Federal Amendment. It is,
of course, possible to interview members by calling them out of
the session but this method is uncertain and not very successful,
since they feel hurried and interviews in a public reception room
are seldom satisfactory.

The latest piece of work done by the committee is the
interviewing by letter of all congressional candidates who will
stand for election in November. This has been done in cooperation
with the State associations which have been urged to institute
vigorous interviewing in the congressional districts.

Presidential Interviewing: The presidential candidates of the two
parties whose platforms do not endorse the Federal Amendment have
been interviewed in person. On July 17 Mrs. Catt, Dr. Shaw and
Mrs. Norman deR. Whitehouse, president of the New York suffrage
association, called on Judge Hughes in New York and had a long
and satisfactory conversation. He told them that in his speech of
acceptance he could not endorse the Federal Amendment because
this was the accepting of the party's nomination and of its
platform, which had not mentioned it. He said, however, that he
believed in it and that soon after his speech of acceptance he
would announce his personal advocacy of the amendment. He asked
them to hold this information in conf