THE SUFFRAGETTES.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 144342, 5 March 1914, Page 3

THE SUFFRAGETTES.

AMERICA N DEPUTATIONS. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT. WASHINGTON, March 3. The House Judiciary Committee received suit rage and anti-suffrage deputations demanding the constitutional amendment of tho United States laws providing for feminine .suffrage. Dr. Alary Walker, a noted feminist, wearing trousers and a silk hat, who is specially permitted to wear male garb, made a vigorous plea for women’s rights, threatening that the woman voters throughout the, suffrage States would destroy the Democratic Party unless their demands were granted. The Senate, later, debated the question, and Senator Clapp held that all the evil influences throughout tho United Stato-s sought to prevent women getting votes, as 'they would instantly right many glaring social wrongs.