New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-30
State Associations Balk Al
Tax to Support Ma.
tional Body.
HOPE TO SMOKE OUT
WILSON THIS WEEK
Amendment to the Constitution
Granting Female Suffrage
Will Be Urged.
(From The Tribune Bureau.

Washington. Nov. 2-The budget didr,,
bulge to-day. That fateful budget for
1914 prepared with great labor by the
committee on the revision of the consltu.
ton of the National Woman Suffrage IA.
ISOLATION and passed by the national
board. stuck tonight in the executiv.
committee. composed of representatives
Of the various state suffrage organiza.
tons. The state presidents listened TO the
plan and asked for time to think il over
They will sit again Monday before the
national convention opens and try TO
thrash IL out then.
"Of course" they murmured as thew
went their ways after an all-evening SEES.
sion at the Bellevue. the national must
be supported. but 10 have this income tax
put on us in addition to our local ex.
penses-wel we don't know"
The suffragsts have announced their in.
tention of starting speedily on its way an
amendment to the federal Constitution
that will enfranchise women. Such an
amendment and the womens right to It.
now that they vote on national questions
in ten states, is TO be urged on Congress
say the suffrage leaders, with vigorous
determination They also assert that they
will attempt to secure during their weeks
stay here an expression from President
Wilson which might be regarded as the
Democratic partys policy on the woman
suffrage question.
Illinois Women Arrive.
The obvious convention happenings to-
day, besides the budget fight, were the
arrival at 4:2O o'clock p. m. of the Illinois
specal-a strictly feminine train, the only
man aboard, save railway employees
being John French. a suffragist, five years
and six months old-and the luncheon OF
the National College of Equal Suffrage
League, at which Miss Lucy Burns, CO.
engineer with Miss Alice Paul Of the fed
eral amendment movement sprang a
new and attractive get-the-vote-quick
proposition.
Let every suffragist in the country
concentrate on Congress for one day."
she said land we'd get the vote the
next day"
But concentration is not a part Of the
suffrage atmosphere at Washington 10.
day. Rather it Is diffusion. agitation and
ether things like that The fact is that
while Washington has handled plenty OF
conventions, the suffrage part of il never
has and consequently is rather out OF
breath just now. Anxious eyed suffragists
frCm other towns arrive at the Bellevue
Hotel, the convention headquarters. in
shoals, and present themselves TO the hos
pitality committee, crying, Where is my
room?" and there is no room. Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw's private secretary was
caught ten minutes after her arrival in
dignantly leaving to take the next train
10 New York because no room had been
provided for her. She was finally placated
with half of another woman's room.
Tomorrow at o'clock will be held the
big public meeting OF the convention-the
mass meeting at the Columbia Theatre,
with Miss Jane Adams, Senator Helen
Ring Robinson, OF Colorado; Miss
Leonora O'Reilley, OF New York. and
others as speakers. Monday the real ses-
sions OF the convention will start in the
Masonic Temple.