The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-11-10
WOMEN DO WELL
IN MEMS PLACES
They Arc Proving OF Valuable
Assistance to Nations
Statesmen.
HELPS UNDERWOOD
Another Coaches Mann, While
Many Lawmakers Look to
Them for Aid.

Washington. November e-Repra-
sentative Mann. minority leader or the
House. gives Mrs. FLORENCE ~ Donnei-
ley, his clerk for twenty two years.
credit for much OF the information
that he imparts TO tho House. and
Representative Underwood majority
leader. Says that Mrs. Marian Il. Mar
tin, his secretary, helped him TO frame
two tariff bills
Among those who I'LL important
places, positions generally occupied by
men. arc Miss Gertrude T.. Spaulding.
clerk 10 tho Senate Committee on
Standards, Weights ana Measures
Mary NJ Younger. assistant clerk TO
the senate Committee on Banking and
currency; Elsie Young Douglas. as
sistaut clerk 10 the Senate COMMITTEE.
on Claims, Blond q. Seymour. mes
senger 10 the Senate Committee on
Disposition Of Useless Papers in Enc
cutive Departments; Margaret A. Mol
10y. clerk 10 tho Senate committee to
examine the several branches Of the
civil service; Ruby Lockhardt clerk
to the Committee on Expenditures in
the Department OF Agriculture; Mary
blinking. clerk 10 the Senate Commit
tee on Expenditures iii the Post -Onice
department; Anna II. Farden, of the
committee on Expenditures In the
InORGne
Howel. confidential clerk to Senator
Walsh, Of Montana
Mrs. Donnclly," said Mr.. Mann. "is
the most efficient Office woman eyer
saw She runs this Office ana she used
to run tho House Committee on Inter
state and Foreign Commerce when I
was chairman. She knows her work
ana fnow mine. Sometimes We go
several days without exchanging u
dozen words. hut l find her completed
work on my table"
Mrs. Donnelly was with Mr.. Mann
before lie came 10 Congress She is
quiet, reserved and Industrious. Callers
must see her before they SEQ Mr.. Mann.
/ and she can ward of crank or n bore
without offending him
Mrs. Donnelly has a grown daughter,
VINO Is now on her honeymoon
Helped Make Two Tnrin bills.
Mt. Undcrwood's secretary, Mrs. Mar
tin, is now In Alabama in the thick
OF the senatorial contest. AS secretary
she has helped Air. Underwood to frame
tarin bills, and give out committee as
signmcnts. She goes between MIR. I'm
dtrwood and tho public, and she has
knack OF eliminating tho pestiferous
visitors and dispatchinG important
ones.
70 her Mr.. Underwood dictates all
OF his correspondence When the news
paper men so to see him they are met
1T the door By Mrs. Martin, always
elegantly dressed, SWEET hammered and
handsome, who ushers them In il their
/ business seems urgent. MIR. Undcrw
| is one OF tho easiest men in public
! life IN WashinSton--if one secs Mrs.
/ Martin first
! Before seeing Senator Moses T.
Clapp, or Minnesota, the average caller
must talk IT over with Miss Gertrude
y. Spaulding, who used to rule the
senate Committee on Interstate Com
mcrcc. In every nook and corner OF
senator Clamps office in the Senate
Office building, Miss Spaulding DON'T
mates. She belongs 10 nobody. Senator
Clapp and every other person IN her
domain step lively when Miss Spauld
ing speaks
Daring tho Investigation or cam
paign contributions by tho Clapp ,m-
mittcc in 1912 every now and then
some man. smoking 4 pipe or Il cigar.
would drift into the committee room,
but by the time he gave two pufrs Miss
| Spaulding was after him and he was
on the way out. or the smoke was
given UP. She knows all the details
of Senator Clapp's Office. and she di :
reefs the work OF his committee
Miss Spaulding is u native OF Yer
mont She WAS chief clerk of the de-
partments Of concessions and horticul-
ture OF the PAN American Exposition
at Buffalo. in 1901. and chief clerk OF
the department OF agriculture and
horticulture at the st. Louis World s
Fair. in 1904. She was the only WON
an chief clerk 1T ST. Louis She has
been secretary 10 Senator Clapp since
1906. She was clerk to the Senate In
terstate Commerce Committee when the
Democrats gained control OF the Sen :
ate. She goes to st. Paul between
sessions OF Congress.
between Senator Robert NJ. La Fol-
lette. OF Wisconsin. and all danger
stands pretty auburn haired woman,
Helen H. Dunn, who is nm ardent suf-
fragist. Miss Dunn lives In the La
Toilette homo. and acts MS clerk and
stcnographer to Fighting Bob
Senator Ia toilette wastes but little
time with callers. Hc works hard
nearly every day in the year, and will
not quit work to confer with Just any
body. Miss Dunn knows whom TO ad-
NIT and 10 whom to refuse adnittanco.
She acts as between FOR Senator
! La Toilette If the wouid-bc caller has
serious questions to PROFOUND
Tell Miss Dunn" is the way to tell
Senator La Toilette"
Miss Imogcnc Howell clever Mon
tana woman. protects Senator Thomas
j J. Walsh. one OF tho younger Senators.
from curious visitors She was with
Mr. Walsh twelve years before he