New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-09

IN spite Of three disappointments,
we believe firmly, now, that the com
mittee will take final and favorable
action upon our bill Tuesday. Senator
Spring was the one selected 10 make
the announcement. and there was
something convincing in mis- tone when
he said that final action would be
taken then.
I've believe that Senator Browns re-
quests for postponement must be al
most as trying to the committee as 70
the suffragists, because they must bear
the responsibility. The public interest
in the action of the Legislature at Al
banv is intense. The term 'sutfraglst
means to-day not only women but the
men who voted for the suffrage bill.
Every Senator in the judiciary Com
mittee probably realizes that he has
many constituents at home who are az
least surprised by the tactics of delay
and of evasion which have been fol
lowed up TO this time
Mrs Laidlaw made a statement pro
testing against the treatment the
women who have so often gone TO Al
bany have received:
Early in the legislative session the
New York headquarters received ur-
gent requests from every Woman Suf-
frage party leader in the state that we
keep them informed of the progress Of
the bill which they, assembled IN con-
vention from every one of the $50 As
sembly districts, had voted that we in
troduce.
Thousands Watch for Bill.
"By letters, telephones and tele-
grams, our state chairman, Mrs. White
stone. has kept this great state OIgani-
cation notified of the varied and often
unexpected events which have attended
the supposedly simple passage Of our
bill through the Legislature. Work
ingmen, farmers wives, professional
women, tenement-house mother, and
leisure class women have expressed
their eagerness in the progress OF the
bill by hocking 70 Albany, week after
week, since January !. They nave all
paid their own expenses. often at a
definite sacrifice, that they might come
as delegates TO bring the direct news
back to their own Assembly districts.
at has been a matter Of distinct en-
barrassment 70 the state leaders OF the
Woman Suffrage party that We seem
10 have brought back mistaken and
fal.acious reports. The call has gone
out. you wished 10 be in Albany when
this bill was reported, and we have
had eager throngs OF women az Albany,
the guerdon Of whose pilgrimage has
been disappointment. We have tried 20
explain, on some days to 200 bewild-
cred and bafFled women, endeavoring 20
give our explanation in such a way as
TO arouse no resentment against legis-
lators or committee members; and yet,
do the best we could, delegates have
returned 20 their Assembly districts
in distinct y irrittted mood.
"Our Albany Legislators are as fine,
dependable a body OF men as have
ever assembled az the Capitol, and we
consider Il distinctly unfortunate that
there should be considerable number
Of thousands Of women IN every Assem-
bly, district who, 10 say the least, are
watching the suffrage bill in Albany
with their weather eye open, If not
with distinct Impotence"
Among those in the delegation yes
terday was Mrs. c. j. Nordstrom. of
Lake George, sister Of Assemblyman
Brereton. Other newcomers were Miss
Kathryn Starbuck, of Saratoga, Assem-
bly district leader Of Saratoga County;
Miss Claire Breeze, of Saratoga; Miss
Edith Walbridge. OF Brooklyn; Miss
Grace Frank, ex-leader of the 18th As
sembly District. Brooklyn; Mrs. ;. NJ.
Kinney and Mrs. c. J. Turnbull, OF
Schenectady; Miss Mary Hun, Of Al
bany: Miss Edith Little, Mrs. II. r.
Wright, Mrs. Teneyck Bronx, Mrs c. NJ.
Bissell. Mrs. J. Augustus Goewey, Miss
Josephine Cotton. Mrs. James Holroyd,
Or. Jean McNutt and Miss Elizabeth
Smith. all of Albany. A large percent
age of yesterdays workers were pres
emit again to-day.