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Show BSTIHL CAPITAL W omen Bring Their Demand De-mand for a Constitutional Amendment to Congress. WHITE HOUSE INVADED President to Confer With Leaders; Much Enthusiasm Among the Members. WASHINGTON, 0''. b- Woman suf-I'rai.Hts suf-I'rai.Hts bruulit their dcinand for a 1 constitutional arnendnint to congress nain tudiiy and reriewnd t heir request t ur Kiiiitu I to President W i Isoii. While llic president declined tn tnko up their cau.-io in his annual address tomorrow, to-morrow, us they asked, he promised to confer with cuiires loaders over the tiinendment and Inun that !isiirn Lr the. u omen deri 't'd much encouragement. II eretof ore the preside!) t cnnsisl en t ly has held that Min'rae was ;i state ih-uo. ih-uo. What ell'.-'ct, if nny, the recent defeat ol niflratfo in the elections in the eastern states mav Ii;lo iiad on his at titude w a,- not disHod. I'.it the women were confident t h t their latest lat-est pilprim'iye to the White 1 1 on he had been tin m-'-t fruitful of nil. The president V interview with women in the east room of the White House was the climax to a day's dertion-Mrtition dertion-Mrtition which included the presentation of petitions to rnnresKUion, speech-n.nkinn speech-n.nkinn on the stops of the -apitol, tho inf rodin-t ion of the Sii-n :i l'. A n t h.my suffrage amenrimont in the houeo and a! j parade up F'ennsvlvnnia avenue.. ! Petition Presented. The celebrated uti rayr petition. 1.-(Mti) 1.-(Mti) feet Inn and i.einin ."vmi.m'ih natnei of voters in the western su tirade fimes, which va brought a-ross the continent ,111 an automobile by M i s. Sara 1'aid j field of 1 iroiuri and Mi--, Krnncos .lol- lilfe of ' 'aljfoi nia, was lost led ween here and Wilmington, po., by the express company which h;ol been entrusted wirli tiip last few miles of its Imn.' jonrnev. The women had a not her pot it in 11 with them, however, and although lea pretentious, pre-tentious, it wns prc-onti-d to b''resr-ntM-tive Mon-leil, He ; 1 1 Id i --a 11 . of Womi'ip. ou the .-ieps 01 the capitol. ' When tho honso ;;s.--iiibb,d -Mr. Mould Mou-ld ol I iut ruduced tho Susa n H. Anthony ! amendment; RU"esentative Raker of, j California, a Democrat . i n t rod need an identical measure, and Mever London.' the new Socialist conirresman from Now York, presented stiil anotlier. lb-. Amph Howard Shaw, president of the .National American Woman Suffrage a?0'-ia t i(Ui. -at in the enlierv with a party of suf-fraiist suf-fraiist leaders and watched the proeped-! proeped-! inifv. The introduction of three idenfi-i idenfi-i r-ai resolutions see in t J to ple.i?e Dr. Shaw. After 47 Years. ' ' We have i nt rod need this sol f same resolution in every conijres tor the last f ortv-seven ears. sa id she, '"and while we never have had any difficulty in .'ottin it introduced, we rarely have enjoyed such a decree of 0 -opera 1 ion from all the political parties." Satisfied that that was about all to be expected of eontfress for one day, t he women tna rehed on to the White j House. I'p Penusyhania avenue, with some brass bands and a fife and drum corps, thev paraded between lines of police, po-lice, who were under special instruction? to see that they w-ere unmolested. The disorderly scenes of three years ao, when the suffrage parade was mobbed and the police stood powerless, were fresh in the mi mis of some of the women and they stepped with broad smiles of recollect ion of how they had I forced congress to investigate that in-I in-I eident. Todav some of the women rode horseback, but most of them walked, hearing purple and yellow banners, which were whipped by a raw winter wind. President Listens. At the White House the 3fi() visiting leaders marched into the east room and the remainder of the procession waited outside during the interview with the president. Miss Anne Martin of N'e-I N'e-I vadn and Miss dolliffe were spokesmen. 'The president listened attentively to I their request that he take up suffrage in his address tomorrow and told them he found it impossible because his address ad-dress was finished and he had devoted it to anotlier subject. "All 1 can say with regard to what you are urging at present," said he, ' is ' this: I hope I shall always have an : open mind and I sliall certainly take i the greatest pleasure in conferring in j tho most serious way with my colleagues! at the other end of the eity with regard j to what is'the right thing to do at this time concerning this great matter. 1 1 am always rest rained, r.s some of you I will remember, by the consciousness that i 1 must speak for others as wellns for : mvsef so long as T occupy my present office, and therefore I do not lire to speak for ot hers until 1 consult ot hers and see what 1 am justified in saying.''' The suffragist delegates will ' be in the capital until next. Wednesday attending at-tending the first national convention of the ( 'ongressional V nion for Woman Suffrage. Many leaders of the national movement will lie present . |
