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Show INQUIRY I CONTINUES Witnesses Tell of Ob- " scene Talk and Rough Treatment in Women's ! Parade Washington, Mar. 11. Investigation of the responsibility of the police for the disorders which attended the woman wo-man suffrage pageant on Monday, ! March 3, was continued today by the senate committee of Inquiry with witnesses representing the suffra-gists suffra-gists and the police ready to testify. Edward S Droop, president of the V, sshington Board of Trade, was to- ;day'8 first witness. Ho declared that an hour before the parade began he 1 believed Pennsylvania avenue was clear. Obscene Remarks. James Mythen, a clergyman of Bos-! Bos-! ton, who marched in the Maryland di-: di-: vision, said the marchers were forced to walk in single file, and that they were greeted all along the line by ! I jeers and shouts and obscene remarks re-marks from the bvsUinders. He gave the numbers of several po- lice officers who, he said, neglected the work of keeping the crowds back One officer to whom he complaind. he said, told him to "go to hell." Dr Mythen said that the police generally had become a part of the crowd and did nothing to restrain those who insulted in-sulted the paraders. 1 Blind Gin; Roughly Treated. He testified that he had been told that Mary MeMn, a blind girl, who ; marched in the parade, had been pulled out of line by rowdies and that her guide had difficulty In rescuing her. John A. lohnston, commissioner of the District of Columbia, who has charge of the police department, was the next witness. He placed in the record all of the correspondence between be-tween his office and the suffrage leaders relating to the issuance of the parade permits and the protection of tbe parade Rj |