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Show Women Scrub the Statue of Suffragists MEMBERS of the National Woman's Wom-an's party, arising with the birds, visited the capltol at six o'clock and Interviewed the charwomen charwom-en detailed to clean the capitol, In an effort to Interest the charwomen In keeping clean the statue of the three pioneer woman suffragists, Susan B. Anthony. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cndy Stanton, which was presented to congress last year. This was a follow-up of a scrubbing scrub-bing which the Woman's part" members mem-bers gave the statue themselves tiie j lay beforp, when they armed themselves them-selves with scrubbing brushes, soap ind buckets of water and invaded the apitol. j Those who appea'ed to the char--vomen were Mrs. C. L. Robey, chairman chair-man of the Eighth congressional district dis-trict of Virginia of the National Woman's Wom-an's party, who led the scrubbing expedition, expe-dition, and Miss Levinia Ea,?an of Louisiana, Lou-isiana, a member of the pa-ty council. Tlie charwomen expressed Interest in ; the matter, they reported. 1 Besides keeping the statue of three pioneer suffragists clean, the women r demanding tha lh room under the rotunda of the capitol, originnlly designed for the tomb of Washington, and where the statue now Is, be cleaned up. too. and kept clean. At present old furniture is frequently stored there. The Woman's party members are negotiating ne-gotiating now with members of thee senate and library committee for more fitting treatment of the memorial, which was accepted hy congress with fitting ceremonies last year. They have protested for weeks and months to capitol authorities because the dust and dirt has been allowed to gather deep on the memorial. Miss Elsie Hill, chairman of the Woman's party, said that the women would continue their efforts to see that tlie memorial was properly cared for. |