Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-04-05

 STILL ACTIVE After Setback in Senate. They Besiege Another Congressional Body. I $ SUE INCREASING Insist That They Should Have Right to Vote in Elections Where Sena- tors and Representative Are
 Named.
I $ $ UE INCREASING

Washington, April 4--After set back in the senate, followed by in- activity on the part of the house committee on judiciary, the woman suffrage advocates habe begun to ho- siege another congressional body the house committee on electon of president, vice president and repre- sentatives in congress.
 The suffragists, failing to ge. a whole loaf, now are asking the latter committee to give them half loaf. and the troubles of the responsible Democratic majority over the s,1f- frage issue are increasing. The feminie pleaders checked temporarily in their plan for constitutional amendment for woman suffrage, are insistent that congress shall at least give women the right to vote in cleo tions where senators and house mem bers are named.
 It was a discouraging blow when the senate went back on "the cause and failed to muster the necessary l two-thirds majority to submit to the people of the various states a cons.i- tutional amendment giving women the right to vote While the senate | was debating such resolution, the women were before the house judi. ciary committee seeking a report or 1 semilar resolution in the lower body. The house hearings were held early in March but the committed has SO far failed to report in favor o1 the suffragists and the prospects arr
 that there will be no report Year | after year, the sufragists say, they have been appearing before the judi. | ciary committee and each time the "mere men" of the committee havs turned the deaf ear.
 Suffragists Active
 In all the suffragists have made
 four valiant attempts during this
 session to get action. On each occas ion the anti-suffragists have been or
 hand stubbornly fighting their suf. 1 frage-craving sisters and declaring
 that the maority of women through.
 out the country does not want thk
 ballot. So far congress has appeared
 to take at It's face value the latte'
 statement, not unmixed with certain
 reasoning that suffrage is state
 matter and that the federal govern.
 ment should keep hands off". First, the suffragists begged the
 house rules committee to repor' Ia resolution creating a distina
 committee to handle suffrage bills i-
 the lower body of congress. They claimed the women were tired oi going to the Judiciary committee
 which always was busy and neves | seemed to care much about the snf frage cause. The rules committees
 endeavored to sidetract the issue and was successful until members of the house from the suffrage states froced
 a Democratic caucus. The suffraglsts
 were, jubilant at the prospect ct bringing the members into the open After a stiff caucus fight the wom.
 en were defeated through resolu-
 tion offered by Representative Thom- as Heflin, of Alabama, which declar- ed that suffrage was state and nn'
 a federal issue. No separate house
 committee was created.
 r Then came the long contest in the
 senate, with Senators Ashurst and
 Thomas leading the fight for the suf.
 fragists. They lost out, getting 2
 maority of but one, whereas two
 thirds maority was required.
 For six hours the house Judiciary
 committee, with it's big room pack.
 ed to the walls with suffragists and | antis, heard the feminie orators at. :, tack the house ramparts.
 Committee Patient
 The house committee listened l patiently, respectfully, as 1t always does. The women filed out of the
 room and then the committee turned i to the trusts and to Impeachment
 cases and showed aside "the cause Undisuayed, the women trudged