The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-03-11
mrs. MACKAY GIVES
LOBBYISTS POINTS
IN ALBANY
TACKLES GOV. HUGHES. SPEAKER
AND COMMITTEE IN A SINGLE
handed BATTLE FOR SUP.
FRAoE MEASURE.

rs ALBANY, March ll.-Although
Mrs. Clarence Mackay did not register
with the secretary OF state as lobby
1St, as required by law, she introduced
few new wrinkles into the game OF
promoting legislation, that made Col.
moe" Dinkelspiel and other artists
IN that line sit up and take notice.
Mrs. Mackay In becoming brown
tailor-made gown invaded the capitol
and stole march on the antis by put
ting In two hours OF the most effec-
tive work for her cause. She had 4
tcn-minute talk with Gov Hughes, in
which she is understood to have IN
formed, him OF the evils that would
cvertake the legislature IL the horrid
word Male" were not eliminated from
the state constitution. The governor.
sympathetic but discreet. passed the
responsibility up TO the legislature.
Mrs. Mackay brushed aside the at.
tendant at the portals OF Speaker
Wadsworth's room. AS the result OF
short conversation with him, the
speaker sent for the members OF the
Judiciary committee. who have under
consideration the bill amending the
constitution so as TO confer the cleo
tive franchise upon women. Mrs.
Mackay did moss OF the talking and
the committeeman did the listening.
Her agreeable personality combined
with her intense enthusiasm for he
suffragette cause made marked i'm
preston ON her auditors. She said
that IL was no more than right that
the committee should report the bill
to the house so that the ISL members
might have an opportunity of voting
one way OF the other on subject OF
80 great Importance. Ii wasn't
Que stion OF who was for the bill or
who was against IL. she said, but one
OF principle. II was not fair TO hold
the bill In committee.
Chairman Jesse S. Phillips told
Mrs. Mackay that the Importance OF
extending the elective franchise to
women was fully realized by him ana
f,r that reason he believed in having
II originate with a constitutions. cor
yenticn. He pointe,, out that expert
ence had shown thai a comparauNeI!
small part a. the voting population
vote on a constitutional proposition
and that. In view of that fact, the
bill should first be given the weighty
consideration il would nave Ia c1n-
vention.
Mrs. Mackay Went :eway with inc
belief that the favorable sentiment IN
the house seward thu BIT will force
some action before loag. Many IS
semblymen have openls expressed
Themselves IN favor OF having vote
% the proposition on ;hc floor oil n .
house. but the committee has decided
not to report the bill favorably.
Mrs. Mackay. before returning 20
New York was asked about her mis-
sion here. She said she came TO nave
q private talk with the committee ana
she was confident the cause or the
suffragettes had been advanced as
result OF her visit.
Mrs. Mackay would not discuss ner
Albany visit or it's probable results
when she got home in New YORK.
but the set straight one important
error in the accounts OF universal
franchise in Sweden. When the an
nouncement was made that Sweden
had granted the franchise 10 women
there was great rejoicing among the
defenders of the faith on this side OF
the water. The cable reports said
that all the inhabitants" had been
given the vote. Mrs. Mackay asked
the Swedish minister at washington
about It, and he replied as follows:
"The question of the whole fran
chise for women In Sweden Is at pres
emit under consideration in our parlla-
ment. II was indeed newspaper mis-
representation II any paper here re-
ported that we have now full iran
chise for women"