mined
congressional activity in the States which there must be before
the amendment can be passed and ratified. Your committee has done
its utmost, I believe, but it can no more put the Federal
Amendment through Congress without your activity in the States
than a State committee can achieve success without activity in
the counties. Activity on the part of a small number of local
Washington suffragists is not a sufficient backing for the work
of the Congressional Committee. If you propose to secure the
Federal Amendment you must work just as hard in the States as you
expect it to work in Washington. Without a doubt we can secure
the Federal Amendment if the women of this country
enthusiastically want their enfranchisement that way....

The friendliness of members of Congress toward the National
Association and their continued respect for the suffrage movement
in this country have been maintained by the dignity, poise and
ability of the national lobby. In the many years of my connection
with various kinds of organizations I have never served any in
which there was more frankness, unity and good fellowship than in
the National Board and the National Congressional Committee. That
such harmony exists is due to our great president, to whom each
is more indebted than all of us together can express. Her visits
to Washington did for us what nothing and no one else could do.
It was my duty and pleasure always to accompany her to the
Capitol, and the unfailing impression of nobility, directness and
power which she left upon the men was a joy to witness.

I can not close this report without acknowledging my personal
debt to that co-officer who is not on our committee, Miss Hannah
J. Patterson. It is but fair to say that had we not had her
assistance at hazardous moments the suffrage planks would not be
in the two national platforms today. Food, sleep, rest, pleasure,
all were day after day given up by this most self-sacrificing
officer. She it was who kept with one other [Mrs. Roessing] the
lonely vigil the night of June 6 at the door of the Republican
Resolutions Committee while it debated for hours its
sub-committee's adverse report on the suffrage plank. The crisis
in our work for both the planks came in this sub-committee of
seven, for we knew