Among the others who were most frequently called on for help were
Senators Curtis, Smoot, Walsh, Pittman, Lenroot, McNary, Hollis and
Sheppard."

Mrs. Park spoke briefly of the hearing before the House Committee on
Woman Suffrage April 29 on the bill granting to the Legislature of
Hawaii the power to enfranchise its women. (See the chapter on
Territories.) This bill had passed the Senate in September, 1918. On
Jan. 3, it passed the House without a roll call.

Tribute to the association's Congressional Committee and other workers
in Washington was paid by Mrs. Park, who said:

During the past fifteen months there have been several changes in
the personnel of the committee, chief among them the resignation
in September, 1918, of Miss Ruth White, whose gratuitous service
as secretary had extended more than three years. She was
succeeded by Mrs. Minnie Fisher Cunningham, but just as her
marked gift for political work was making itself felt in
Washington, the submission of a constitutional amendment in Texas
made it necessary for her to return home in January, 1919. In
August, 1918, the National Board appointed as a special
congressional steering committee two women of widely known
political acumen and experience, Miss Mary Garrett Hay of New
York and Mrs. Guilford Dudley of Nashville, with Mrs. Catt and
Mrs. Park ex officio. In October Mrs. Frank Roessing, who had
been residing in Washington since the preceding April and thus
had been able to give help from time to time, sent in her
resignation. In November Miss Marjorie Shuler was added to the
committee as secretary in charge of publicity, a designation that
by no means expresses the varied duties which have fallen to her
lot or the extent to which she has proved of service. To Mrs.
Helen H. Gardener a new title, that of vice-chairman of the
Congressional Committee, has been recently given by the National
Board.... Her work can rarely be reported because of its
confidential nature, but this may truly be said, that whenever a
miracle has appeared to happen in our behalf, if the facts could
be told they would nearly always prove that Mrs. Gardener was the
worker of wonders....

Other members of the Congressional Committee who have been in
Washington for the whole or a part of the period covered by this
report are, in addition