organization; they cared about the enfranchisement of all
American women; they wanted the Senate to act; suffrage was no
longer a moral problem; it could be made a practical political
problem with which men and parties would have to reckon.

Voting women made their first impression on Congress that summer.

Meanwhile the President's "paramount issues"-tariff and currency-
had been disposed of. With the December Congress approaching, he
was preparing another message. We went to him again. This time it
was the women from his own home state, an influential deputation
of seventy-three women, including the suffrage leaders from all
suffrage organizations in New Jersey. The women urged him to
include recommendation of the suffrage resolution in his message
to the new Congress. He replied:

"I am pleased, indeed, to greet you and your adherents here, and
I will say to you that I was talking only yesterday with several
members of Congress in regard to a Suffrage Committee in the
House. The subject is one in which I am deeply interested, and
you may rest assured that I will give it my earnest attention."

In interesting himself in the formation of a special committee to
sit on suffrage in the House, the President was doing the
smallest thing, to be sure, that could be done, but he was doing
something. This was a distinct advance. It was our task to press
on until all the maze of Congressional machinery had been used to
exhaustion. Then there would be nothing left to do but to pass
the amendment.