Show U HAVE HA YE AN INNING BEFORE H USE COMMITTEE Argue Against Again t Creation of C Committee on Woman Suffrage by by- y That Body Appear pp ar in Force NOT FED FEDERAL RAL QUESTION Miss Chittenden of NewYork New NewYork NewYork York Declares Declares' Problem Is IsOne IsOne One Oile That Should h uld Be Left to the Several States WASHINGTON Dec 4 Opponents 4 of woman suffrage appeared before the house rul rules S committee today to argue why a committee on woman woman suffrage should not be by the house The delegation was waa headed by Mrs Airs A. A M. M Dodge Dodo of at Now New York who yesterday was elected president of or the tie national association asso uso- cia elation opposed to woman suffrage The delegation ma marched ched to the house office building in ma iua a body In that respect they followed follow d the planor plan of or the National American Suffrage as association which yesterday sent a R delegation dele dolo- gation of or nearly 1000 W women to present the suffragist side aide of the argument to the rules roles committee Speakers for the opponents declared working women are re opposed to the fran franchise chiso chise because would they lose more than thau i they would gain This was in answer to the statement of ot the he suffragists that th tho working woman needed n del the franchise fran fran- chise and was strongly in favor of it It rt was M contended d. d that that- the suffrage movement was waa sporadic in its n nature ture and nd that tle Hie ballot was not tot wanted by byas byas byas as many mani ft Women omen a as the tie suffragists de dc clare dare It lIt wag was denied that tho suffragist suffragist gist movement had grown to such proportions proportions proportions pro pro- portions as a to demand a house commit commit- tee Suffragists Stay Away Suffragist sympathizers had been warned by Dr Anna B Howard ward Shaw president of their association to remain from the hearin hearing room and give their undivided attention to tho business of the tho convention to which they had boen been sent as delegates Mrs Arthur Dodge the loader of ot tho the movement mo had charge of presenting arguments She said th the speakers represented more than ninety ninety nine ty thousand American women all aU over voting yoting age This Mm Mrs Dodge said was the more remarkable because these women ar are of a n. class not eager to organize Miss Alice Alico Hill of Now York declared the equal suffrage questin ques ques- i tion tin was not a federal one that it should be left to the states Miss Chittendon Chit Chit- tendon eaid said that thero there were wore DJ n rO than two and one half million women of voting vot vet ing log age ge in New York the majority of them foreign born and that the anti anti- suffrage women believed it should not be left to the other states of the union to S say sav p l' whether they should be added to tho the New ew ew York electorate Woman said eaid she she has bai has attained what she sho is Ilo- Ilo to o day ay without the vote voto The women women who oppose equal suffrage age are aro not drones nor parasites sitting home homo with our knitting but real conservationists of women women position in the community asa as citizen a nonpartisan To give women the tho ballot she ehe believed would make her a more mere spoke in the in political ma ma- chinery Mrs Robert Garrett of Mar Maryland land de do- declared dared that thousands of women of her state actively opposed woman oman suffrage ge |