aim should be to establish
and maintain friendly relations with both parties rather than to
arouse the antagonism of leaders whose support we must have if
our measure is to succeed, so it was recommended and the National
Board voted that our "drive" should be postponed until there was
a possibility of securing a vote on the Federal Amendment.
Happily, however, there were forms of work not prohibited by the
legislative program.

The Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage gave a hearing to our
association April 20 ... and on September 15, Chairman Jones made
a favorable report. The measure is now on the calendar of the
Senate. In the House, resolutions calling for the creation of a
Committee on Woman Suffrage had been introduced at the beginning
of the session by Representatives Raker, Keating and Hayden and
referred to the Committee on Rules.

Our first step was to get the approval of Speaker Clark, who gave
us cordial support. Later, to offset the fear on the part of
certain members of conflicting with President Wilson's
legislative program, a letter was sent, at Mrs. Helen H.
Gardener's request, to Chairman Edward Pou (N. C.), of the Rules
Committee, by the President himself, who stated that he thought
the creation of the committee "would be a very wise act of public
policy and also an act of fairness to the best women who are
engaged in the cause of woman suffrage." Then, through the
efforts of a working committee made up of the six members who had
introduced suffrage resolutions, a petition asking for the
creation of a Committee on Woman Suffrage, as called for in the
Raker resolution, was signed by all members from equal suffrage
States and by many of those from Presidential suffrage States and
from Primary suffrage Arkansas. This petition was presented to
the Rules Committee, which on May 18 granted a hearing on the
subject. On June 6, by a vote of 6 to 5, on motion of Mr.
Cantrill of Kentucky, a resolution calling for the creation of a
Committee on Woman Suffrage to consist of thirteen members, to
which all proposed action touching the subject should be
referred, was adopted, with an amendment, made by Mr. Lenroot of
Wisconsin, to the effect that the resolution should not be
reported to the House until the pending war legislation was