the "unreasonable" women kept right on insisting that the liberty
of half the American people was paramount to tariff and currency.

President Wilson's first session of Congress came together April
7th, 1913. The opening day was marked by the suffragists' second
mass demonstration. This time women delegates representing every
one of the 435 Congressional Districts in the country bore
petitions from the constituencies showing that the people "back
home" wanted the amendment passed. The delegates marched on
Congress and were received with a warm welcome and their
petitions presented to Congress. The same day the amendment which
bears the name of Susan B. Anthony, who drafted it in 1875, was
reintroduced into both houses of Congress.

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The month of May saw monster demonstrations in many cities and
villages throughout the country, with the direct result that in
June the Senate Committee on Suffrage made the first favorable
report made by that committee in twenty-one years, thereby
placing it on the Senate calendar for action.

Not relaxing the pressure for a day we organized the third great
demonstration on the last of July when a monster petition signed
by hundreds of thousands of citizens was brought to the Senate
asking that body to pass the national suffrage amendment. Women
from all parts of the country mobilized in the countryside of
Maryland where they were met with appropriate ceremonies-by the
Senate Woman Suffrage Committee. The delegation motored in gaily
decorated automobiles to Washington and went direct to the