Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-08-19
80 DAYS IN WORKHOUSE
FOR SUFFRAGE P|CKETS
President Said to Have Given Assur-
ance That He Will Issue No
More Pardons.
TO GET NO SPECIAL FAvoRs
Militants, Surprised at Growing Sem
timent Against Them, Do Not Dis
play Banners in Front Of White
House.
TO GET NO SPECIAL FAvoRs

WASHINGTON. August 1s.-The mil
liant suffragists received setbacks to-
day from four sources:
/. six pickets were sentenced to
serve thirty days In the District Work
house at Occoquan, after trial last
ing less than an hour.
9. Senator Myers. of Montana, Intro
duced bill designed to stop oil pick
citing of the White House. and provid-
ing severe penalties for violations. He
denounced the suffragists as "infa-
nous. disgusting and intolerablc."
3. Major Pullman. chief of police, is
understood to have received assn
RANGES that the President will issue no
more pardons for the militants, nor
interfere with arrests.
4. Superintendent w. H. Whitaker,
OF the workhouse, announced that the
sunraGists will receive no favors, and
declared IF they stay here a month
LII send them home in better condi-
ton physically. perhaps mentally"
Although the suffra gists had an
nounced they would disregard the ulti-
matum OF the police against picketinr,
they apparently were so much taken
aback at the sentiment against them
that no such attempt was made. The
suffrage banners were absent from the
front or the White Houes, and one
lonely policeman had no trouble in
Keeping the crowds moving in front of
Cameron House, the militants head
quarters
SIX WOMEN SENTENCED
TO DISTRICT wORKHoUsE
The six women who went to the
tn irrhf
Flanagan. Hartford. Conn; Edna
Dixon. Washington: Natalie Gray. Col
orado Springs. Col; Lavinia Dock.
Philadelphia. and Lucy Ewing and Mrs
William Upton Watson. Chicago.
Judge Pugh showed none of the
leniency displayed by Judge Null
lowney in former suffrage trials. After
nearing the evidence he declared the
pickettng was merely adopted as an
advertising measure. He spoke scorn-
ruby OF the spectacles the women were
making OF themselves, and then an
nounced: II fine them $40 or thirty
days in the workhouse"
All attempts to make long argu-
ments were choked off,
Meanwhile. up at tho capitol tho
women were receiving scoring from
Montana. He introduced a bill to pre-
vent. the display of banners around tho
White House. He said he believed the
President erred in the generosity NJ
his heart when he pardoned the woman
previously sent to the workhouse.
The actions going on around tho
White House for months past" said
tho western Senator, have been q
gross insult to the President ~ ~.
United states and the people of TN.
country. I mean the so-called nickel
inE--this branding OF the President as
comparable to the Kaiser, who Is tho
greatest autocrat. worst despot and
most tyrannical ruler in the world. and
murderer who brought upon the
earth the greatest scourge in history
TIME For CONGRESS
TO EXPRESS DISAPPRoyAL
Il believe the women deserve the
sentence in the workhouse. Tbcv
should have been compelled to serve
1t. And think it is time for Con-
gross to express it's disapproval Of the
proceedings and the women who con.
duct them
When tho President is insulted, the
people arc insulted. and so is eyery
Senator and Representative who has
supported national woman suffrage. as
have. l am tired of II; tired OF
them"
The Myers bill imposes fines OF 500
to $1,000. and imprisonment for thirty
days to one year is provided.
Fo. sale, ?, 100000 or More Feet stand.
depot. \ Esttmated 1.a56. 600 feet pims