Mr. Williams: And Mr. Williams will make eleven. When will it be possible to get them all together?
Miss Martin: We were hoping to do that by tomorrow. Mr. Dale was here but he has been called back to New York. Mr. Moss has been seriously ill but has promised to attend the meeting tomorrow. I will read the names of the men who are against a report. They are all anti-Suffragists and you are classified with them: Representatives Webb, of North Carolina; Carlin, of Virginia; Walker, of Georgia; Gard, of Ohio; Whaley, of South Carolina; Caraway, of Arkansas; Igoe, of Missouri; Steele, of Pennsylvania, and, until now, yourself.
Mr. Williams: If a majority of the committee want to reconsider it I will vote in favor of it.
Miss Martin: What would you do if we could only get ten Suffrage members present tomorrow and they were a majority of those present?
Mr. Williams: Let us not make any further agreement. I have agreed to your former proposition and I will stand by my word.
Miss Martin: We are sure you will.
After the deputation had left his office Mr. Williams promised Miss Younger and Miss Martin that, whenever the requisite number of friends of Suffrage were present at a meeting of the Judiciary Committee, he himself would move a reconsideration of the question.
Again I quote Miss Younger’s, Revelations of a Woman Lobbyist:
We now had a majority of one on the committee. We had only to get the majority together. It seemed a simple thing to do, but it wasn’t.
The number of things that could take a Congressman out of town on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, the number of minor ailments that could develop on those days was appalling. It seemed that every time a Congressman faced something he did not want to do, he had a headache.