Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-03-07
SUFlRhGETrES TELL TALES OF
INDIGNITIIGS TO SENATE
PROBING COMMITTEE
DRUNK men Good NATURED
Like Wild Animals DO, "lounguns'
We're Placed In Center Of March
with Old Ones All About Them

mdlgnitIes and affronts from the
crowds. and indifference and laugh
ing comments from the police were
rcCouutcd today before the senate
&C mmitteo that has begun an inyes-
tigation into the alleged lack OF pro
lection given the great suffrage pag-
cant Of last Monday
Women prominent In national af-
fairs and In suffrage councils told OF
their harrassed progress through
surging crowds OF men and boys
whom the police, they said, made lit
tie effort to hold back. Their stories
differed In detail because Of the va
rious viewpoints from which the
Pennsylvania avenue march had been
observed. but their statements as 10
the general attitude of the police were
indOrsed by Rear Admiral Van Rcy-
pen retired, and George #. BOwerman
librarian for the Carnegie Library OF
Washington, who appeared AZ wit
nesses against the police department
hOOu
Miss Julia Lathrop. chief OF the
children's bureau OF the department
OF commerce and labor, one of the
marchers IN the suffrage parade said
the few police she saw seemed to be
merely standing in the front row OF
the spectators Mrs. Harriet Taylor
Upton of Warren, Ohio, In charge 0i
the Ohio division of the parade. de
clared that crowds OF "youngish men
surged in SO close that the marchers
could hardly walk two abreast, thai
good natured drunken men" pushed
against the marchers' lines withou
restraint by the police and that thu
few officers In sight did nothing L
protect the procession.
Congress had passed a special ac
directing the Washington police de
partment to prevent any interference,
with the suffrage procession" In the
questions put to. the women witnesses
today Senators Jones, Dillingham; anC
Pomerene tried to secure definite in
formation as to why the protection
had been so inadequate; and as t.
the number of police on hand and the
manner in which they acted towarC
the women marchers
Well dressed women, many of then
leaders in national suffrage affairs
packed the committee room where tn,
hearings were held and from theIi
ranks came the witnesses who were
called to the stand under the direction
Of Miss Alice Paul. In a statement
ing, Major Richard Sylvester, super
ntendent of police, declared his de
partment had given the parade all tn,
protection it could with the limited
number of police available, and tha
the disorder on the streets was du,
to the breaking Of cables along thu
route and the unruly character of the
crowd.
Crowd Merely "Unduly."
Bursts of laughter came frequentl!
as women told Of their experiences
Mrs. Upton said there were some eld
erly women in the Ohio division anO
she was afraid good nature'
drunken man would fall agains
them"
80 we all hurried and got pas
and he fell back on Wisconsin or WY
oming or somewhere back there" sh
said.
She declared the police laughed a
the scenes and made no effort to help
The most inefficient, she said, wer'
the plain clothes men sworn In fo
the occasion who carried their author
ity in the badges on their coats.
Mrs Agnes NJ. jerks OF Concord
n. H. who had her daughter anC
other young girls with her in tn,
New Hampshire division, told one o.
the most striking stories. She de
clared uniformed policemen had en-
couraged the crowd in its disorder
and that she had been so alarmed a
che action Of the officers toward III
young girls that the children wer'
placed in the center Of the procession
where they were protected 10y the
older women.