The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-06
PRESIDENT TO GIVE
SUFFRAGE PARTY
Three Hundred to BE Invited
TO Meet Congressional
Union ENJOYS Dec. 6.
GREAT MEETING PLANNED

President Wilson is to give n woman
.,rrag- afternoon party December 6.
-, ,rc guests OF honor will be two lead
90 in the congressional Union. Miss
r-,ncrs Jollinc and Miss Sara Bard
r,s,d Western women, who will take to
Warrington the signatures of 5000 900
,,oneu voters who want their sisters
= he cnfranchised by Federal amend
,nent.
Mr.. wilson's secretary has requested
Mss Alice Paul, head of the Congress
,o,al Union. to furnish him with the
,,mes Of 400 prominent s~ufTragists
whom he could invite to meet Miss Jol-
nne and Miss Field. Although the Con-
y~ressional Union does not fiatter itself
nat thus means that the President Is
giving up his States rights view Of
woman suffrage, II feels. Miss Paul said
yes,erday, that Miss Jolliffe's plea will
have weight with him, because she IL
an ardent Democrat and worked hard
n California for his election.
The purpose of Miss Pauls visit to
New York Is to line up all New York
sunraglsts she can win over to work
FOR the Federal amendment But the
state organizations are not likely to
ma detected from their work for the
Stat referendum. according to Mrs.
Carrie chapman Cats remarks at the
meeting Of the Equal Suffrage League
n the Hotel Aston yesterday.
we New York suffragists will strive
for the Federal amendment and for
Presidential suffrage as well as for the
-E...l.a, - NI,1 case antI st.,,t IA,,ss
,et Us bc deceived into thinking that we
can let up on the state work. l do
not believe the Federal amendment can
be put through now. 1t requires. after
passage through Corgress-and that is
10 slight ~th;ng-the ratification of
ihtrty I Legislatures. two-thirds of the
states. Look at your maps. observe
hat ffteen of these are Southern States.
and YOU will see that the thing Is
impossible now"
But the Congressional Union is max
Nc elaborate plans nevertheless to i'm.
press congress. lis convention. which
begins In Washington the day the West
eSn ENJOYS are TO be received by Presi-
dent Wilson, will mark the opening
( a season of lobbying that won't stop
until Congress adJourns.
Mis- Paul said she didn't understand
how the Susan y. Anthony %amendmen,
could be introduced for the National
Woman suffrage Association by Senator
Thomas OF Colorado, because Senator
sutherland OF Utah is to introduce II
OH the opening day for the Congress
sional Union. and has asked Senator
Thomas. as chairman of the woman
suffrage committee. to name a conve-
nlent hour.
The e. L. convention will last
until December 13. when IT will wind up
with a pageant in Convention Hall. a
pageant showing selected scene from
the life OF Susan b.. Anthony. On De
enber IL there IL to be "A meeting al
the Belasco Theatre. ~Suffragists from
all over the country will congregate
% the national capital to work with
The union, Miss Paul said. Miss Flea
Tor Brannan, daughter OF DR.. join
Winters Brannan, is going next week.
Mrs. j. u. Hampton will spend much
4 the winter there, II so will Mrs.
D. II. T.. Belmont.
Bringing the question to a vote In
New York and other States has made
our work more difficult Miss Pau
SAID. 1t is going to be much harder
70 influence the New FOR Congress
teated suffrage at the polls. IL only
all the suifragists would work together
10 wiring the vote from Congress and
he State Legislatures. We could get
I very soon"