New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-03
Clause Putting Response
bility for Deficits on Mem
berS Cause of Defeat.
BUDGET DIES, TOO:
ONLY ONE HOPE LEFT
Committee Has Three Hours To-
day TO Draft Compromise
Stormy Session.
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Washington. Dec. AFTER nerve
rackinc. bevlldering. maddcning, exhaust
Ing day Of discussion, Of oratory that half
the time could not ne heard OF motions
that often died in the putting OF rulings
frankly branded as unparlamcntary, the
National Woman Suffrage Association. in
convention assembled. killed the proposed
constitution, which its constitutional re-
vision committee spent eight months in
draftinc. and killed with it. OF course. the
1914 budget which depends upon it.
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw voiced her dis
appointment in some half-bitter words.
pathetic though they did not touch the
real root Of the delegates objection.
"Thc country" she cried that could
give a foreign sunragist 5000 to take
home 20 her own land could not raise
$500 TO enable its own national suffrage
organ izat'ou To do its work
Technically the proposed constitution
vas not killed, when, az go o'clock p.
n. the tired. dishevelled suffragists left
the convention hall. II had, after having
been referred hither and Won. TIL nobody
knew where she was at. finally been re-
ferred back 10 the constitutional revision
committee, with instructions 70 do in a
three hour session tomorrow what they
couldn't do in eight months-Construct
constitution acceptable 10 the convention.
But those who knew said this was equiva-
lent 10 killing H.
Compromise Not Likely.
at is impossible Miss Charlotte Anita
Whitney. OF California. second vice-prcsi-
dent Of the National said afterward.
"to TX up IN one DAY a substitute financial
plan that will be satisfactory 10 the con
vention. The new constitution is killed.
though IL may come TO life next year"
and Yet. IL seems as II reconstruction
should he simple for the cruX Of the
delegates objection was one clause. a
clause Jon section Of article 8. When
Dr. Shaw talked about $1,000 she speci-
red simply q fixed sum down in the bud
get for rent and Office expenses, and
forgot this scary clause
Whenever the amount OF the national
cdsct accepted by the convention shall
greater than the sum OF all the moneys
ae and payable by all the members
affiliated member shall pay its share
lie deficiency. which share the treas
.. shall determine by suportiOning
o deficiency among the affiliated mem
I'm proportion to their respective
..I expenditures during their past
81 wear"
southern delegate apparently voiced
feelings Of the majority when she
cd. We're not going TO nave deficit
ned ON US when We don't know what
al deficit will be-
Mrs. Belmont in a Huff.
The session was funny. or sad accord
ing as one looked at H. II was funny 20
see Mrs O. II. 7. Belmont leaving the
hall I'm r. huff with the officers on the
platform. after having tcnderly sent IN
sixteen easy chairs earlier in the day
because she couldn't bear 20 see Dr..
Shaw and Jane Adams sitting In those
high stiff chairs"
IL was funny 10 see sixteen women.
all al once. hurting points Of order and
motions to reconsider at the chair with
half the time not the faintest idea OF
whether il was the previous question or
the last resolution that was being con-
sidered.
But Il was sad % those who have
worked with her and who were still
thrilled by the fine speech she made last
night 20 see the siXty-eight-ye
president, "Roberts's Parliamentary
Rules" in her hand, her white hair loos-
ened by the stress OF her long day.
palng as she realized that the plan
which would have secured the National
financial support for It's work would not
60 through. Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw'
looking like grieved child, stuck close
10 her elbow the whole day.
One surprise Of the day was the action
Of Mrs Carrie Chapman Gait VINO was
Chairman Of the constitutional commit
Bee During her absence in Budapest
Miss Runtz- Rees took her place, but
Mrs Gait was induced 20 resume hei
ehairmanship when she came back, ano
supposedly was familiar with the con
sut1tion when Il was presented to the
convention.
Yet she began the discussion with
speech declaring that some points IN II
she did not approye-meaning the clause
about the dehcit-and when the conven-
ton voted down the financial part OF the
constitution she gave It It's coup de grace
By moving the indefinite pOstponement
~ the whole.
MRS. Cats Back Poked.
This motion brought down such "A
storm Of counter motions by delegates
VINO mated 10 reject the constitution
though they didn't want to accept, that
Mss Mary Garrett Hay poked Mrs. Catt
wildly 100 the back