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The Federal Suffrage Association

committee of the House, after a two hourssession, asked her to return the following day for a further discussion of the subject.

In 1906 Mrs. Colby being absent from Washington, Rev. Olympia Brown and Dr. Clara MacNaughton asked the Woman's Suffrage Committee of the Senate for a hearing which was granted and the committee was addressed by Mrs. Belva A. Lockwood, Rev. Olympia Brown and others.

The entire committee was present and by questions and remarks indicated a very great interest. A very extended report of this hearing was given in the Washington Star.

In 1913, after a very interesting hearing before the committee on election of president, vice-president and members of Congress, the officers of the association called attention to the fact that the Anthony Amendment was being entirely neglected. No bills had been presented for a long time; no hearings had been held during the session, and no indication of interest manifested on the part of Congress or the National Suffrage Association.

The officers felt that while the Federal Suffrage Bill was important as an opening wedge, yet it was only subsidiary to the main purpose, the complete enfranchisement of all women of the country. This can only be accomplished by the passage of a constitutional amendment. Therefore, they determined