Evening star., 1915-06-06
Question Still Open.

Of Commerce, said last night that the
question whether the chamber resolution
.hall include the right to vote for wom-
en- or will restrict the franchise privt-
leee is still open to debate among the
members and Is to come up for discus
sion at an early meeting.
II know that there are a number OF
members of the chamber, said Mr.. MO-
ran who believe that women should be
allowed the ballot. particularly unmar-
rfed women with property which they
should have the voting right to protect.
We also have members who believe that
women can exert their influence for the
public welfare best through the home
where they instill the noblest principles
into the young men of the country. The
charnber's mind is open on this point and
.he matter will be carefully considered"
Several suffrage workers from Wash
,ngton are attending the convention in
Chicago as delegates from the congress
sianal committee of the National Ameri-
can Woman Suffrage Association. under
whose auspices the convention has been
called.
The executive council. the state
chairmen and state publicity chairme en-
and means of knitting more closely
the work for suffrage In the states
and in the national Congress. and to
consider the situa ton which has been
of the Congressional Union for Woman
Suffrag ge
Congressional Union Accused.
Militancy and the attempt TO line up
the suffragists against the democratic
party-tuin sins laid .at the door Of
Mrs, o. II. p. Belmont and the Con-
grsssional Union by the more con-
servatiye National American Woman
Suffrage Associatfon-pronis to be
among the chief topics of Interest at
The conference.
These subjects. according to Mrs.
Medili Mccormick. chairman of the
congressional committee of the Ma
tional Association. are down on the
program as an afterthought to meet
fhe desires of the eastern women, who
are laboring TO convince the voters of
New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania
and Massachusetts that the suffragists
Of the United states do not believe in
JnilitanCy and do not indorYe the rad
ical policy OF Mrs. BeImont's organi-
3atiou in holding President WILSON and
the democratic party solely responsible
for the failure of Congress TO pass a
suffrage amendment TO the Constitu-
uon.
The National Association regards the
"heckHng policy which the militant
suffrage organization in this country
has adopted toward President Wilson
-
to the progress of suffrage and be-
Heves that by it's unfriendly attitude
toward the President and individual
congressman. and by it's open and in
discriminating fight on the democra tic
party, the Congressional Union has
done the cause of suffrage much harm.
Militants Denounced.
English miiitants may be all riyh, in
England said Miss Ethel Smith. "but
there is no place for English militants in
America. Their policy is 10 ask for
something they know they cannot get
and then advertise the fact that they
have been refused.
The main task before the conference
according to Mrs. Mccormick, will be
the working out of full cooperation
between the national association and the
state associations in pushing for the Su
san b. Anthony amendment to the fed.
eraJ Constitution.
The national association has now ex.
tended its congressional work TO cover
forty-one OF the forty-eight states
Mrs. Mccormick continued In those
states we have established machinery
for bringing pressure to bear upon Con-
gress at strategic points and strategic
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