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Show DELAY IS URGED IN SUFFRAGEJVIEASURE Charles S. Fairchilds Tells House Committee to Wait War's End. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. Representa. tlves of the American Constitutional lensue, of which Charles S. FalrchHds, secretary of the treasury during President Presi-dent Cleveland's administration, is president, presi-dent, todav appeared before the house woman sulfriLSe committee and urged that action on the proposed suffrage constlln-tional constlln-tional amendment be deferred until after the war. Through Everitt P. TVbeoler of New York, tlie league argued that passaRo of the amendment by congress at this time and a campaign later lor its ratification would divert the attention of American women from then necessity of putttim" forth every energy to help win tho war. lr. I.ucien Howe of lUiffalo, a member of the league and fellow of the Roval Academy of Medicine, argued that women wo-men we're not qualified to vole. He also presented statistics tending to show that the high rate of Infant mortality mails it necessarv for the women to keep their places In the home Instead of gfVlng their attention to polities. The speakers at today's hearings arn not connected wdtli the National Asso-'V elation Opposed to Woman Suffrage, but represent, they said, an organization coin-posed coin-posed of both suffragists and antj. suffragists, favoring action by the Individual Indi-vidual states. |