Suffrage parade Author:United States Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SUFFRAGE PARADE. THTTRSDAY, MARCH 6, 1913. Subcommittee Of The Committee On The District Of Columbia, United States Senate, Washington, D. C. The... more » subcommittee met at 1.30 o'clock p. m. Present: Senators Jones (chairman), Dillingham, and Pomerene. The Chairman. The committee will come to order. The resolution under which the committee is acting reads as follows: Resaired, That the Committee on the District of Columbia, by subcommittee or otherwise, be, and it is hereby, authorized and directed to investigate the conduct of the District police and police department of the District of Columbia in connection with the Women's Suffrage parade on March third, nineteen hundred and thirteen. and ascertain whether said police or police department was negligent in protecting the participants in said parade from interference, insult, and indignity, and submit its report and recommendations as soon as possible, and said committee shall have authority to summon witnesses, administer oaths, and take testim my. Pursuant to that resolution Senator Gallinger, chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia, on March 5 designated as a subcommittee to take the testimony Hon. Wesley L. Jone.3, Hon. William P. Dillingham, and lion. Atlee Pomerene. Senate resolution 49S was also passed on March 1, the calendar day of March 4. It reads as follows: Resolved, That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and the superintendent of police of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, directed to inform the Senate why the direction of S. J. Res. 164, that the superintendent of police of the District of Columbia prevent any interference with the suffrage procession on the third day of March, nineteen hundred and thirteen, was not complied with. And Senate jo...« less