y State delegations or representatives,
we did not encourage further visits to the Capitol. In Washington
such visits, like pageants and other spectacular forms of
activity, have been overdone. There was nothing to be gained and
probably something to be lost by them.

Your committee wishes to express its appreciation of the
cooperation of many Senators and members of the House. Our
friends have often gone out of their way to assist us and not
once has any one refused a request for help. They have made
speeches on the floor at our suggestion, taken polls for us, held
conferences, arranged interviews, provided us with documents and
extended all the official courtesies within their power. While we
have not secured action we are not discouraged in the least. Even
the most radical opponents acknowledge that our movement has
grown tremendously this year. We have achieved recognition of the
justice of our principle by the political parties and we have
with us in our Federal fight the great majority of the leaders of
thought and action who believe in suffrage at all. By a
continuation of sane methods, sound tactics, coordination and
concentration we shall soon accomplish the submission of the
Federal Amendment.

Your chairman becomes more convinced each day that one of the
next steps necessary to nationalize our work and to secure
Federal action is the removal of the national headquarters to
Washington. She feels it to be her clear duty frankly to state
to the convention her conviction on this point. It is her
judgment, based upon her own observation this year and a study of
the past work on the Federal Amendment, that it will not pass
until the national headquarters are in Washington and the
National Board as well as the Congressional Committee is in a
position to gives its direct attention to the work on this
amendment.

A lobby in Washington for special educational purposes may be a
good thing but you will have to do special educational and
political work in the States if your committee is to achieve
political action to the point of a two-thirds vote on the
amendment. We appreciate that support has been given to it by
many suffragists and a number of State chairmen and presidents
but there has not been the intensive, persistent, deter