The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-16
CON NNECTICUT
 SUFFRAGE NEWS
A. G. Polrittl

GA. G. FOrrit6)
 The activities of Connecticut suf- fragists during the coming summer seems likely to take two different 1 forms. In the first place very many 1 workers will throw their energies into | helping the campaigns in New York ! and Massachusetts, and aiding the women of these states to win a vic tory for votes for women in the pop-1 uIar vote in November The state 1 rganizers-Nfiss Emily Pierson, Miss Alyse Gregory and Miss Isabella San ders are all at work in New Jersey. | They went to. this more distant state 1 for the reason that New Jersey will | vote on woman suffrage in September i-probably on the 14th-while the ]! achusetts and Pennsylvania not take the vote on woman suffrage un- 1 til November The leagues and workers in the western part of Con- I nectfcut are most interested in New
 York, and this interest will, no doubt time for taking the vote draws near. The other form of suffrage work l which is already occupying the atten-
 tion of the suffrage workers of Con- necticut is the movement in favor of the Susan B. Anthony amendment I which will be present to Congress as soon as it convenes in December. This is the amendment that has been be- fore Congress since 1876. when it was | introduced by Miss Susan B. An 1 thony and Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stan ton. For nearly twenty years the l National Woman Sunrage Associa- tion of which Miss Anthony was the l guiding spirit held an annual conven-| Etfon each year in Washington and l worked and agitated for this constf- l tutionaI amendment, which is design iead f SS f4rfi tween the sexes so far as political Irights are concerned and to make it ] impossible for the United States or any state to make sex bar to the l right to vote.
 / In 1893 the National Woman suf-
 frage Association united with the American Woman Suffrage Associa-
 ton and from that time the annual
 conventions ceased to be held each
 year in Washington and the National Association began to turn it's atten-
 ton chiefly. to winning the states one
 by one through constitutional
 amendments. For the first twelve
 years of the present century the Ma
 tIona1 did little in regard to Con
 gressi onal work. The amendment |. was still introduced each year and
 the Wocan Suffrage Committee of the Il Senate-which had become refuge
 for the destitute among the Congress
 naen-gave hearings each year at
 which the cause of votes for women } was pleaded. But the women had
 lost sight of Miss Anthony's plans
 and statesmanship, and in 1912, the
 whole amount spent on CongressionN
 al work by the committee of the Ma
 tiona1 Association which had this
 work in hand, was SIP
 After the National Annual Conven- l nittee was appointed by the National Association It's chairman was Miss Alice Paul and the vice-chairman was Miss Lucy Burns. These two young women at once began to work up sen
 timent for enfranchisement by con- gressiona1 action and they organized the first Washington parade for
 March, 1915. This was the parade
 which was hustled by the hooligans of Washington and treated with such , disrespect by the authorities-a fate
 which did more to arouse the women
 of the country than any amount of
 respect and deference could have , done. All through the three ses-
 sions of the Stxty-Third Congress, l Miss Paul and Miss Burns kept up 3 their active work and instead of t spending SIP as was spent by their
 predecessors. the amount spent in 7y 1913 was $27,OOO.
 . In 1913 the National Convention s was again held in Washington; but the Congressional Committee had by this
 time expanded into the Congression-
 al Union, and Miss Paul and Miss ] Burns were not again appointed by the National Association. In spite X of this, however, they have gone on working with an ever increasing body
 of women, behind them, as the Con- gressionaI Union, and last session the
 work was also carried on by the new ; Congressional Committee which was
 headed by Mrs Medin Mccormick a This summer the Congr ressional
 Union is organizing in all the separ- ate states in order to bring pressure
 to bear on the congressrnen and sen 4 ators. It does not interfere in any
 way with the work of the state as = sociations; for. it does not concern it. # self with state work. But it needs a the bncking of the women of the sep ! arate states that the representative 70 in Washington may be made to fee s- that they have a large proportion o e their constituents behind them whe1 j. they are asked to vote in favor of tn
 United States itut1ona1, amend