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Show I CHAMPIONS DF I SUFFRAGE ARE I GIVEN CHANCE H: Catherine Waugh McCulloch of Chicago Answers Antis H: Before House Committee on Rules. ( "WASHINGTON, Doc.- G. -Hearings 1 before' the hotiso committee on rulcb H' , relating to tho proposed creation of ft Hl etnnding committee on equal suffrage closed hero lato today. Tag last hours of the hearing xvoro becupiod by cham-I cham-I pious of the suffrage movement diroct- cd by Catherine Waugh McCulloch of Chicago. They aoawcrcd those op-I op-I posed to equal suffrngo who had argued j against any federal recognition ot the suffrage question. No action on the Hi l resolution which would provido for a It house equal suffrage comuuttco was jf taken, but it was rcporicd that many k mombers of tho rules committee were . jcriouslv considcruig the extension of i authority to tho present standing com-H com-H mittoo on election of president and vico Z president to consider woman's enfran-ij enfran-ij chbement. SI James S. Lnidlaw of Now York, pros-5 pros-5 II ident of tho Men's Loaguo for Woman Ml Suffrage, read a letter from Senator if! Works of California, denying jo had 111 ever said woman suffrage in Cahfor-jiJ Cahfor-jiJ nia had been a failure It was argued fj by anti-Buffragist3 yesterday that don-jfl don-jfl a'tor Work3 had made such a statement, ill Senator Works said tonight ho had J 1 criticised tho California women for j "not getting out their full voting tjj strength, " just as tho men votora often tjj fail to do, but had not said tho suf-5j suf-5j J'rage movement was a failure. Representative Mondcll of Wyoming I jj closed the argument for tho suflra-s suflra-s gists, declaring that in all the years m women of his stato have had tho bal-i bal-i lot, he never hoard a case of domostic Jll troublo caused by political differences In between husband and wife, ijfl Mrs. William F. Scott of New York, jh chairman of tho executive committee m of tho Guidon club, opposed to woman ) suffrage, addressed tho house rules com-(II com-(II roittec today in argument agninst a ll standing committee on suffrage. (11 "Each successful suffrngo cam-lij cam-lij paign," she said, "has been carried jj bv an appeal to the people to rise fj against tho law and the existing gov- ornment under the dictates ot solf-Ljj solf-Ljj interest. In Los Angeles tho suf frail fra-il gotten chanted to tho beat of march-jj march-jj ng feet as tho labor unions and Soil So-il rialist organizations marched bare-I bare-I headed past the prison in which the McXamnras awaited their fate, 'you j ote for us and we'll vote for you.' " 1 Mrs. Scott urged that the fodcral jj government havo nothing to do with 111 the suffrage- question; that it should fja be left to the states. Tn this she was II supported bv Mr. and Mrs. "Rossitor jj Johnson, also of the Guidon club of jj New York. Mr. Johnson insisted that J jmiv stale desiring woman suffrngo was a" libtrt-i fo havo it 'without any amondmont( of tho federal constitution or any action of congress whatever." "In making advance toward woman Fuffrago," said Mrs. Johnson, "this government would bo playing into tho hands of the two forces within the United States that deslro the republic's overthrow. These forces aro Socialism and Mormonism. Tho latter introduced wornun suffrage into this country while Utah was a territory, and Socialism is responsible for every other particle of political woman sufirago in this country coun-try or in anv othor." WASIUNdTON, Doc. 5. Storm clouds that hovered low for a time today to-day over tho closing session of tho forty-fifth annual convention of tho National American Women's Suffrage association, cleared away just beforo adjournment. Troublo started when Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the congressional committee, also a lending workor in the congressional union, an affiliated society, presented her report. 3t was charged on the floor that tho congressional congres-sional committee had ignored instructions instruc-tions from tho national board by ro-fusing ro-fusing to collpet its funds through the national society's treasurer. After much discussion a resolution was adopted directing tho congressional committee to act in futuro in accordance accord-ance with the board's dosires; thon Mis3 Paul's report was unproved. ' . A special committee to discuss plaus for holding together tho organizations in the states which already havo woman wom-an suffrage, so as to have their holp in tho work for n constitutional amendment, amend-ment, was agreed on by tho executive committee. |