The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-03-15
SUFFS WIN IN HOUSE,
SENATE HALTS VOTE
Angry Women Say Action
Breaks Promise and Vow to
Have Vengeance.
BLAME SENATOR BROWN
Mass Meeting at Cooper Union
Tomorrow Night to Pro-
test "Trickery."


ALBANr. March IA day Of hope
In the lives OF over 900 women suffra-
gists. made bright and promising by
the passage In the State Assembly to-
day OF their constitutional amendment
on vote of iO9 TO 80, was rudely
blasted tonight. The New York dele
CATION went back to the city on three
special Pullmans, vowing that they
would no longer tolerate ''disappoint-
nsent. jugglery and trickery." and would
hire Cooper Union for q grea. mass
meeting Thursday night to voice publicly
their protest.
The patience of the suffra gists became
exhausted tonight after 200 or more OF
them had crowded into a small corridor
adjoining the rooms OF the Senate Judici-
airy Committee. and during Ave long
hours waited for that committee TO
notify then, that their constitutional
amendment had been favorably reported.
Twice before they had waited in the
same way In the same corridor. Twice
before they had been disappointed. but
on March I. last. the sufrragists left
Albany with the assurance Of the Judici.
ary Committee. they said. that action
surely" would be taken March II. Ac-
cordingly this day was looked forward
20 as one OF triumph for the cause.
There was disappointment, however.
which made II difficult for some OF the
more enthusiastic of the suffragists 20
control their emotion when. a half hour
6ofore their train was cheduled TO start
announcement was made that action
again had been deferred. This meant
that the proposition was still bottled up
In the committee.
storm of PPotest Breaks.
The women were indignant They ac-
cused Senator Elon r. Brown. who adj
v.sed the committee to postpone action.
OF having broken faith with them.
Mrs. Norman DE H. Whitehouse. who.
with Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw. Mrs Ogden
Mills Reid and other prominent lead
ers. has been active for several weeks
about the Legislative halls jumped upon
a chair and declared in tones which
made plain the bitterness OF her dis
appointment that the time had arrived
I
was at tho bottom Of the situation. Mr~.
Wh.tehouse made her address 10 the
assembled women Just outside the en-
| trance to the committee rooirs. which
the Senators within plainly heard.
| Mrs whitehouse announced that
the suffragists had teiephored from Al
I bany to learn II they could secure Cooper
Union for Thursday night. Finding that
II was available arrangements were i'm
1 mediately begun for public demonstra.
/ tion.
Mrs. Whitehouse and Mrs. Laidlaw
said that the programme for Thursday
night would be arranged In New York
/ tomorrow. 4 number OF men promi-
nently identified with the cause will b.
asked to deliver addresses.
The feeling OF the won. n was such az
to prompt a number Of members OF the
| committee to leave by a side door. Sena-
! tor Gilchrist OF Kings boldly walkei into
the very heat Of a gath. ring of fifty or
more women. They cornered him in a
jlfry.
THAT isn't decent way to treat
! women" he was told. They wouldn't
be treated like that in a respectable
mans home. They deserve courteous
| consideration. You have trickcd and
fooled them and they will make you feel
! II keenly."
! These and many other comments were
hurled at Senator Gilchrist. who got In
deeper when he said that the Judiciary
COMMITTEES did not like the attitude OF
the suffragists. The committee. n"
added, was especially disp.eased be-
cause the women swarmed about the
committee rooms.
R~torts Grow Warm.
| h..
Quoted that way" said the Senator.
while the women surgcd nearer 20 him
! and made pointed vcplies. Mrs. Charles
Farley Winch wanted to preserve the
( dignity OF the gathering. but she tackled
senator Glchrist without gloves.
1T Is too bad that women cannot come
here and discuss these subjects Just as
men do without fear Of offending the
legislators" Mrs. Winch told him
"Why didn't your committe. keep its
PROMISES Why don't you talk as you
intend DOING Why do YOU want to have
us here day after day and week after
week, only to be disappointed and told
to come back again
! "Well, the members dislike your hang
ing around the committee room doors
that's all there is to it, answered Sem
ator Gilchrist, and he tried To elbow out
OF "A very Indignant crowa Of women.
I'VE ought to chloroform him." said
one.
| "He will never come back" said an
other
Too bad abou, these Legislators being
offended. third remarked "Thcy
would not have the cffruntery to SAY
that TO n man"
You only have hfieen minutes +" get
the train" .el,cd Il man IN the corr
ridor, and the women hurried TO the
! station,