APRIL 7, 1913: Suffragists from around the country were back in Washington, D.C. today for another impressive event demanding a Constitutional amendment banning sex discrimination in voting rights.
Though this event was less than one-tenth the size of the previous one, and consisted of only 531 “Votes for Women” advocates, that number was appropriate to the event’s purpose, since each of the 48 States has two Senators, for a total of 96, and there are 435 Representatives in the House.After being given a welcoming speech on the Capitol steps by a U.S. Senator, the marchers entered the Capitol, where they were greeted by Representative James W.
The delegates then filed into the Rotunda, where nine Senators and an equal number of Representatives from the nine States where women already have equal voting rights with men received them. Those members of Congress shook hands with each of the women as they dropped their petitions into a box specially prepared for the occasion, putting one petition in the box for each Senator and Representative.
Today’s events began with a large meeting in the Columbia Theater, in which rousing speeches were made by well-known suffragists such as Alice Paul, Harriet Burton Laidlaw, Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale, and Janet Richards. Those present for the event, which was organized by Alice Paul and her National American Woman Suffrage Association Congressional Committee, then took to the streets.
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