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Show SUFFRAGISTS AT CAPITOL Many Senators Ride in Parade With Women Present Petitions Pe-titions to Senate Urging Urg-ing Consideration of Suffrage Const itu-tional itu-tional Amendment ashington, July 31. ''Votes for women" was the demand today from delegations of suffragettes from every ev-ery state in the union who reneged the senate chamber and bombarded I the senators with petitions bearing I thousands f signatures urging consideration con-sideration of a woman suffrage constitutional con-stitutional amendment The siege of the senate followed a demonstration in the course of which hundreds of women paraded from Hyattsville, Md , (hiough the countr.. roads and the city streets, down Pennsylvania avenue and through the I capitol grounds. Members of the senate sen-ate woman suffrage committee, which has already favorably reported tho I suffrage amendment, met the petition peti-tion bearers and rode to the capitol with them Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the !i lslative committee of the National American Woman suffrage association, associa-tion, officers of the association and the senate committee headed the parade. pa-rade. At the capitol it js disbanded and a cloud ol femininity fluttered into the senate wing. The dignified hush of the imposing marble room just off the senate chamber was shattered by the demands of women from various states, that their cards be taken to their senators. The pages were bosv for the belter part of an hour, hurrying hurry-ing senators from the chamber to meet their constiluents" armed with pi titious. Alter the petitions had been presented, pre-sented, the delegations flocked to the galleries, where seats bad been re-served re-served and the woman suffrage sup- porters on the floor of the senate took charge ..f the demonstration Senators Owen. Ashurst, .Poindexter lone-. Works, lane, Smoot, Clapp, Thomas, Shafroth and iioiiis made brief addresses endorsing the peti-' tlons. Senator Owen officially presented the petitions to the senate "Tbe reasons for this request on the part of the women of the country" coun-try" he said, are overwhelming and unanswerable and the time has come when they must be considered with dignity, with unbiased id. fee from perjury r passion, in the Interest Inter-est of the welfare of the human race. "I don't appeal to men from a party standpoint or call their attention to the effect which may be expected to follow ff either one 0f the great parties par-ties should go so far as t. insult the three million women who now have ihe full suffrage In Aiherlca by contemptuously con-temptuously denying a riht so obviously ob-viously just and so obviously ncces-garj ncces-garj to welfare, the progress and t h. happiness of the people of America, but 1 will remind you that a creat party with high ldoalo, casting oer four million votes last year, declared I for woman suffrage and the question can no longer be ignored " Tonight the snffraerottes will continue con-tinue their demonstration at a ban quet to be attended by members of the house and senate. Senator Chamberlain of Oregon au-ihor au-ihor of the woman's suffrage amendment, amend-ment, now before the senate, made an address of welcome. "We welcome you to the national capital as the representatives of hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of patriotic men and women of the United States," said he "ouare the bearers of petition peti-tion to congress praying that justice, shall be done to the women of the land ' I extend to you a cordial welcome as the bearers of a message lo the people of the whole country lo the congress of the United States, and to express the hope that your mission may be successful beyond your hopes and expectations." Senator Clapp. presenting Minnesota Minne-sota petitions made a stirring appeal for the extension of suffrage "Whatever the fate of this present resolution may be, he declared, ' the time is not far distant, and is Inevitable, Inevit-able, when ihe American people will confer on the American woman the only weapon by means of which she can peacefully defend herself and her children the ballot.'' Practical) ecrv senator was armed arm-ed with a bundle of the petitions. bound with the yellow ribbon of the suffragists. Senator Smoot, presenting the Utah' petitions, attacked militancy in the fighl for suffrage. "Suffrage should be given not to the Pankhursts and the militant radicals radi-cals among our women," he said, "but to those who follow in the womanly footsteps of the American pioneers for suffrage, Mary Ellen Foster, Susan Su-san B. Anthonj and others " Senators .Jones or Washington, Thomas and Shafroth of Colorado, Gallinger, Poindexter, Works of Cal-ilorma Cal-ilorma and A-hurst followed |