Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-12-29
WOMAN'S PARTY TARGET In FIGHT
ON MISS DELL'S APPOINTMENT
Rejection to Be Asked of
Senate on Ground of
Parlisansl,ip.
Her Opponents Charge
She Heads u. S. Work
ers ''SOviet" Council.
By FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Militant American woma nhood's
! demand for unqualified equality with
male mankind will he under fire in
I the United States Senate as soon as
Congress reasscmbles in January. The
issue /" to be dra Gced out in connec-
| ton with President COuiidSe's ap-
pointment Of Miss Jessie Dell. Demo
Crat. OF Georgia. to he a member of
the United States Civil Service Com
mission. Miss Dell has been chairman
Of the SO-Called Government Work
ers' Council of the National Womans
Party. This is the battling feminist
, organization commanded by Miss
Alice Paul and Mrs Q. H. L. Belmont
and which is crusadinc for an equal
rights" amendment 10 the COnstit,l.
ton. whereby woman shall he the
5o-50" peer of man in every field of
human activity, public ana private.
Miss Dell was given recess APP
pointment on September Il. to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of Mrs.
Helen Fl. Gardener of Virginia The
President sent Miss Dell'S nomination
~ the Senate on December S. ON De
cember > the Senate in executive
session confirmed the nomination
along with batch Of routine ap-
pointments. The next day. December
-. on the ground that a formal ne.
had been denied by the Civil Service
committee. Senator King. Democrat.
Of tab. moved that Miss DeIl'S con
firmation he recalled
Placed on Table.
In accordance with senatorial
courtesy, Mr.. Kings motion prevailed.
and the nomination again lies uDun
the table of the Senate for action
The next step will be for Senator.
King. or somebody else. to move the
recomnitment Of the nomination to
the Civil Service committee Senator
Reed, Democrat. Of Missouri is nam
cd as a prospective ally of Mr.. King
in seeking further scrutiny If Miss
DelIs right to senatorial approval
The forces opposing Miss Dell's ap-
pointment to the Civil Service com.
mission are led by Miss Mary G.. Xii.
hreth, president of the Woman Pa.
triot" Publishing Company of Wash
inSton. and the Massachusetts Pub
lie Interest Lea que" 1t was the.
who. on December Is. tried and failed
TO induce the Senate civil service com
mittee 10 hold hearings against con
hrmation OF Miss Dell.
Miss kilbreta has supplied all mem.
berS OF the Sc nate with copies of Il
petition for hearings on Miss Dell. In
this petition il is alleged that Presi-
dent Coolidee'S appointee To the civil
Service Commission is the frank off.
cial head Of one of the National
Noman'S PARTY Councils tSovietSl"
II is Miss kilbreth'S contention that
the Woman's Party is orca nized on
Soviet lines ADD that it's councils. ''
one of which Hiss Dell headed are
essentially duplicates of the councils
of workers in various branches which
form the Russ n Soviet government
Miss Alice Ia :. the Woman's Party
chieftaln. rec n:Itiy returned from trip
around the W; d. understood To have
been undert 'te1 in the interest of :;
new international Women's Paria-
ment.
Par1i,auship an Issue
II is plal,tr6 to attack Miss DeII'S
right to hr civil service commits
sioner not ont because Of her Won.
ans Party affiliations but because
these are declared. to ahrocate her
claim to be Democrat. IT was nee
essary under the law for President
Coolidge 10 appoint another Democrat
to fill the late Mrs. Gardeners place.
The allegatio that Miss Dell is with
out democratic standing is denied by
Senators Harris and George of
Georgia and the entire Georgia dele
cation in Congress. which indorsed
her appointment.
Miss Dell is the daughter of an old
line Georgia Democrat. and her cor.
GreSSional supporters assert they have