Mr. Gard: You are using this method because you think you have power to enforce it?
Miss Paul: Because we know we have power.
Mr. Taggart: The women who have the vote in the West are not worrying about what women are doing in the East. You will have to get more States before you try this nationally.
Miss Paul: We think that this repeated advice to go back to the States proves beyond all cavil that we are on the right track.
Mr. Taggart: Suppose you get fewer votes this time? Do you think it is fair to those members of Congress who voted for Woman Suffrage and have stood for Woman Suffrage, to oppose them merely because a majority of their Party were not in favor of Woman Suffrage?
Miss Paul: Every man that we opposed stood by his Party caucus in its opposition to Suffrage.
Mr. Volstead: This inquiry is absolutely unfair and improper. It is cheap politics, and I have gotten awfully tired listening to it.
Mr. Taggart: Have your services been bespoken by the Republican committee of Kansas for the next campaign?
Miss Paul: We are greatly gratified by this tribute to our value.
Mr. Moss: State just whether or not it is a fact that the question is, What is right? and not, What will be the reward or punishment of the members of this committee? Is not that the only question that is pending before this committee?
Miss Paul: Yes, as we have said over and over today. We have come simply to ask that this committee report this measure to the House, that the House may consider the question.
Mr. Moss: Can you explain to the committee what the question of what you are going to do to a member of this committee or a Congressman in regard to his vote has to do with the question of what we should do as our duty?
Miss Paul: As I have said, we don’t see any reason for discussing that.
Mr. Webb: You have no blacklist, have you, Miss Paul?
Mr. Taggart: You are organized, are you not, for the chastisement of political Parties that do not do your bidding at once?
Miss Paul: We are organized to win votes for women and our method of doing this is to organize the women who have the vote to help other women to get it.
Before going on with the work for 1916, it is perhaps expedient to mention here one of two interesting events. The _New York Tribune_ announced on November 5 that, “accepting the advice of Mrs. Medill McCormick of Chicago, the National American Woman Suffrage Association announced yesterday that it had instructed the Congressional Committee not to introduce the Shafroth-Palmer Resolution in the Sixty-fourth Congress.” This meant, of course, that there would in the future be no division of the energies of the Suffrage forces of the country; that all would work for the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.