OCR Text |
Show Ell SUBJECTED TO HMBOUS IONGRESS MAY INVESTIQATE TREATMENT OF PARTICIPANTS IN SUFFRAGE PARADE. ollce Are Accused of Falling to Even Try to Protect Women From the Insults of Ruffians Who Tried to Break Up Parade. Washington. It the Insulting treat, merit to which thjr were subjected In Monday's parade, the suffragettes bave gained thousunds of superior la place where they bad not looked for converts. Official and private WuHhlngton, Including In-cluding even the autl-surYragetta, have united In Insistent demands that congress con-gress Investigate the outrages and pui.lsh tlio guilty. Senator Polndextcr delayed the adjournment ad-journment of the senate on Tuesday to denounce the disorderly scna ; that attended the suffrage parade, and J j In the house Representative Hobson of , ; Alabama accused the Washington po-' j lice of fal'l nn to even try to protect j j the women, and declared his (mention , to ask for nn IntestlRation of the po!ic department during the extra session of congress. Most aiiiiizing instances of marchers 'bfelng Insulted and maltreated tame to !l,;ht Tuesday. Representative Hob-ton Hob-ton told the house that a lady had calied him over the telephone and told Llui that a rufflun climbed on a float lu the parido and openly insulted bcr daughter. Phillip Elliot, one of the several boy scouta who did effective work in driving t .e crowds back Tuesday, was badly beaten by a policeman for Interfering. Inter-fering. Medicine Woman, a member of the Elouz tribe of Indiana from the Tine Ridge reservation In South Itekota, declared that while riding In advance of the pilgrims, one of the c"ccasins she wore had been snatched from her foot by a jeering hoodlum. 'Bads were torn from my costume, " and It was with difficulty that I preserved pre-served the rest of my gown," she added. "Our Indiana treat us with much more respect than the white man treats his woman." It 1i certain that a heavy toll of life would bave been exacted bad it not been fo rthe opportune appearance of the cavalry at the height of the crush, Aj it la, there are more than 3 00 persona in hospitals wbo are suffering suf-fering from broken limbs and other Injuries suffered In the crush of the uncontrolled mobs. |