The sun., 1910-03-28
LEGISLATORS Lib, SHE SAYS
BURKING TIE SUFFRAGE BILL,
ADDS MRS. BLATCH.

Shes Stirred 60 Anger ~ the cSwaraice
q These whS Are ASKING Committee
Not 60 Report the B,Il-As fer ASneSs.
Hes sendinG cut Circular Letters.
Persons who went 90 the rooms of the
Women's Trade Union LeaGps at q
Fast Twenty-sscond street yesterday
afternoon. expecting merely a cup Of
outrage tea and few gentle platitudes
about the cause, were somewhat startled
when Mrs. BArriot stanton Batch an
nounced boldly that members of the
state Legislature were deliberately and
persistently lying 90 the tomen.
-You all remember that we had a hear
ing on our votes for women resolution
tefors the Judiciary Committee on March
O.. che said. The matter was discussed
by tho committee ON this following
Tuesday. IL looked then a. 10 We might
hope forFa favorable report. but cannot
deny that the sentiment seems to have
changed sincs the 18th. Do you want
10 know whyp Well then will tell you
Mrs. BlAtch paused. The eself-suppOrters
b.aned forward and sighed.
There is pressure being brought 90
hear on the members of the committee
20 smother our bill.- said Mrs. Blatch.
NO. I do not mean by the so-called
'Gntis.' The men who have been sneak
ING up TO the committee room and but
tonholing members In tho lobbies are
Assemhlymen and senators who have
promised women in their districts that
they will support the bill IL Il comes
before the Legislature.
Women went on Mrs. Blatch. -these
lNstn1 NrN Lat 6Ra
scarisy ,hemi Let M show them up
all over the state. Lot us make them
see that We won't stand this sort Of
thing any longer. Do not think that
am repeating hsNrsAy. One OF the
most prominent members of the Judiciary
Committee told Mrs. Graham. Miss Jessie
Ashley. president of the Collegiate Equal
Suffrage League; Miss Caroline Lexow
and me that he had intended to vote to
report the bill out OF committee. but
that several members Of both houses
hAd come to him and begged him to pro-
tot them. They did not want 20 vote
for the bill and yet they did not wish 20 60
on record ~ voting against IL.
If the majority u the committee are
against M. Why don't thsv come out and
sAv so7 Why don't they vote to report
unfavorablyS Then at least it would
oa discussed before the Legislature.
You know there are five things that can
be done with our bill. II can he smoth-
cred a. it has been for years: the man
who introduced IL can move to have tho
COMMITTEES. discharged; thirdly. the COM
mittee-
But interrupted self-suppOrter. is
there any chance of the Legislature dis
charging 80 important a committee as a,
things for them TO attend to in connection
with other bills
Mrs Batch smiled indulaently.
I simply meant. she explained. by
discha rging the committee that the Legs
Aturs would call for the bill
oh murmursd ths Self supporter
understand men pretty well, went
On Mrs. Batch. -beca Use had five broth
ers-AIl OF them different. and find that
nearly all Of these LEGISLATOR correspcnd
90 one OF the FIVE iypos. When ! am
talking TO one who assures me sOlsrnnly
that his wife docsnt iei'sve m WotnH n
suffrage. saw TO myself. Nh, th"rc silcr KS
RObart.' and when gnother .EnOunCs Is
that hs believes in votes for worn.n - \
matter Of abs5rsCt justice hut isn'J SIRE
about the expediencv Of supporting the
ball this session. ! think | can hear Dick
talking. All of these men will 10 ali
night az soon - they underst nd that
they can't play with us md smooth ~
down any more. We must max" Them
see thai they must reckon with us as they
do with men
The Self-Supporters appl udsd wildly
- their president finished nd then Miss
EhEabeth Cook read a letter which Mrs.
Oambol Birkholz had received from sean
Dor Agnew.
Mr. ARnew said that although there
vas a great deal of justice n the con
epntiOns of the sufrlsyistS. nevertheless
the sentiment among women opposed "a
Il was 80 strong that he thought the
LEGISLATURE would bs warranted IA wait
a. 4 HWa
sistent before taking any radical action
why that's the same letter received
from him. word for word said a woman
m the back row.
4 have tho same one too exclaimed
another.
~Oh I suppose hs has given his score
nry instructions that whenever h. gets
any suffrage trash 20 send letter ~. said
Miss Cook. Nov rem.mber n you don I
know who your San nltOrs and k@pr.senta-
tiyss are ask Miss Hill She has the MAJ
rKht here which shows what Assembly
district every one lives in.