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- 413; Shafroth Amend. decided on, 414-15; attends hearing on the original amend, 415; its lobby, publicity and campn. work, 418 — 422; self-denial day, the “melting pot,” 419; assists Neb, 421; natl. conv. appreciates its work, 422; on “blacklisting” candidates, 424; Ethel M. Smith's report; members of Cong. catalogued, pressure from women of home district to vote on Fed. Suff. Amend, checking up records, votes compared with those on Prohib. Amend; work in Congressl. districts necessary to _ success, 448 — 450; Mrs. Funk's report, important work for vote on Fed. Amend; for Shafroth Amend, 451; Mrs. McCormick's report, 452, 465; shows 6,500,000 votes cast for wom. suff. in 1915, 473; instructed by natl. conv. to concentrate forces on Fed. Amend, 501; report of work in 1916 by Mrs. Roessing, chmn, 503 — 511; effort for Fed. Amend. in Cong, fav. report from Senate Com; Senators urged action, no vote taken, 503-4; unfair treatment by House Judic. Com, 504. (See pages to 511.) Names of Congressl. Com, headqrs, 506; its work divided into depts, lobby work, 5067; report of Maud Wood Park, chmn, for 1917, 523 — 527; headqrs. in Washtn, Mrs. “Miller's report, 526-7; report of Mrs. Park, 562 — 567; see ref. under Fed. Amend, 562; Mrs. Park praises members of com, and tells of their work; gives names, 566; at time of victory, 604; its work under Alice Paul, 625; under Ruth Hanna McCormick, 6278: under Mrs. Frank M. Roessing, 630; under Maud Wood Park, 632; her report on effort for a Wom. Suff. Com. in House, 633; 671; 673; com. made up of many orgztns. under League of Women Voters, 701.
- Congressional Record, report of debate on Fed. Suff. Amend, 563.
- Congressional Union, (National Woman's Party), organized to assist Natl. Congressl. Com; headgrs; large work; first appears at natl. suff. conv. of 1913; Mrs. Catt will not recognize; proves to be orgztn. to duplicate work of Natl. Amer. Assn: Natl. Bd. demands complete separation; it continues as independt. society, 380-1; urges Dems. in Cong. to caucus on forming Wom. Suff. Com; disastrous result, decides on policy of fighting party in power, 412; 415; names Fed. Amend. Susan B. Anthony, 423; arr. suff. hearing, 427; speakers urge Fed. Amend, 4290 — 434; difference in policy from Natl. Amer. Assn, 434, 471; House Judic. Com. asks its size, 434; fights the party in power, opp. re-election of best friends of wom. suff; res. offered in natl. suff. conv. of 1915 for com. to secure cooperation with Natl. Assn, 453; each orgztn. appoints five; Union declines to change policy; will duplicate the work of Assn. in States; no affiliation possible, 454; hope for dividing on lobby work given up, Union opens fight on Dem. party, 455; hearing bef. Senate com, 1915; list of speakers, 466-7; bef. House com, 473 — 476; com. “heckles” speakers, 474 — 476; result of its policy summed up, 475; hearings bef. Senate and House Coms, 547 — 549; account of orgztn. put in Congressl. Record, 571; at last suff. hearing, 577, 585; (Natl. Woman's Party) work with Congress, 629, 635; 656; organized by Alice Paul, officers, headqrs, object, 675; opp. party in power, convs, in San Francisco and Chicago, 676; “picketing” and “militancy,” jail sentences, reorganizes, presents busts of pioneers to Cong, 677; seeks Fed. Amend. for civil rights of women, Mrs. Belmont presents headqrs. in Washtn, 678; at natl. Repub. conv. 1916, 710; at Dem. Natl. Conv, 719.
- Connecticut, 98,000 women ask for Pres. suff. in vain, 602; ratif. of Fed. Amend, 653.
- Conventions, annual, of National American Woman Suffrage Association, in Minneapolis, 1901, 3; Washington, 23: New Orleans, 55; Washington, 86; Portland, Ore, 117: Baltimore, 151: Chicago, 193; Buffalo, 213; Seattle, 243; Washington, 266; Louisville, 310; Philadelphia, 332; Washington, 364; Nashville, 3908; Washington, 439; Atlantic City, 480; Washington, 513; St. Louis, 550; Chicago (last), 504. Names of speakers given in each; chronologically arranged in first 19 chapters; tribute to in Anthony Biography, 22.
