The Washington herald., 1908-03-04
WOMEN STIR HOUSE
Suffragettes Call and Make
Thrilling Charge.
EASILY BEAT ~s1x HUNDRED
Ladies who Want women 10 Vote
Invade Congress and Offer Theme
for Great Unknown and UndiscOV-
erable Bnrd-The Bell System of
Showing Appreciation OF speech.
a book Of voters underneath the bors,

A bar1 ~ pork. some wine to ward on less.
Besides Nh talking in great campaign.
All, Canlraign a Paradise-not dross.
Teunyson. of course, did the best he
could When he started in TO write about
the charge OF the Light Brigade that
beautiful poem which tells about the
charge which the six hundred made
against the Cannons boom of that day.
he WAS handicapped
There isn't any fault TO be found. but
if Mr.. Tennyson had been up in the
room Of the Judiciary Committee Of the
House OF Representatives. Of the United
States OF America, Judge John Jacob
Jenkins, age slxty-hve, Republican, OF
Chippewa Falls. Wis. chairman. three
other members present yesterday morn
ing. when a few woman suffrage suffra-
gettes. escorted only by 4 Worth hat.
two pounds Of Huylers and a bell which
was working when the suffragettes and
the hat were neither working. admiring
the Worth hat, nor gossiping. he might
have laid hold upon some ideas that
would beat that story about the big
charge until it would look like a written
imitation of predatory wealth.
All Becomes Plain.
II was all so plain, Immediately after
it was explained TO the committee, that
woman ought to vote. II she can get
Congress TO say that she may, which II
will not do that there was look OF pain
discernible when Chairman Jenkins didn't
call Speaker Cannon and tell him TO have
bill passed at once.
Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, OF Warren,
Ohio, was the leader OF the suffragettes.
and also a beIlringer> whose equal hasn't
appeared an the Capitol for many years.
The bell. Il was explained by some one
who wasn't present. was brought along
for the express purpose Of putting sort
OF cash-registerish account on all the
long and quite diluted flow Of golden
speech that was about TO let out IN
chained in the room.
You see" II was explained later "the
bell was brought along becanse-well. be-
cause each member might want 20 know
hereafter how much OF the really pure,
beautiful, lovely speeches she had made
when the bell was pressed real hard.
TIE l4kul AulilllD VI llle llCe1Cl llCHcii5
the part OF the bell which causes It 20
give forth the sound OF the bell. II would
register 4 That means she would get
-four points out Of q possible fifty-seven
varieties.
''Wher the left thumb was pressed with
celerity. yet discretion, against the same
portion OF the ben. IT would register n.
The -four meant that the speaker had
said we must four times. and the
eleven would mean that she had said
suffrage eleven times
Only by Saying Because.
'"rhe biggest score-oh. the biggest pos
sible score IN one round would be forty
four. and that can only be made by say
ing because that often. It's really amaz-
ingly hard 10 say IL that many times, be-
cause-well, you know, because Il is
In addition 70 Mrs. Upton, Mrs Carrie
Chapman Gait. Mrs. Richard Walker Fitz-
gerald. Senator Owen, OF Oklahoma, and
Representative Alexander OF New York,
all appeared before the House committee.
After spending a charming half hour or
more with the House committee. the suf-
fragettes proceeded to the Senate wing.
where they also made the very walls ring
with cratory.
Up 70 a late hour last night no rum0r
could be found 10 the effect that some one
would ask the House 20 suspend the rules
to-day TO consider a suffrage bill