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. Monday after Monday, Wednesday after Wednesday, we went from office to office, inquiring solicitously about each man’s health. Was he quite well? Did he have a headache or any symptoms of internal disorders? Was his wife in good health? His children? Could any business affairs arise to take him out of town next day?... The weeks went by and we were not able to get our majority, together. “You think you’re going to bring that question up again,” said Mr. Webb, the chairman. “No power on earth will do it. It’s locked up in sub-committee till next December, and it’s going to stay there.” This was repeated to Miss Paul. “Nonsense!” she said. “Of course it will be brought up.” But why should all this petty bickering, this endless struggling with absurdities be necessary in order to get before Congress a measure dealing with a question of public good? No man would run his private business that way. Yet that is the way public business is done.