In this speech, the President had said: “The voices of foolish and intemperate agitators do not reach me at all.” It was generally felt that the President, there, indicated the Woman’s Party. Commenting on that phrase the next day, the Republican Senators remarked, “Why it was that which brought him there!” During the course of the debate between Poindexter and Pitman, Poindexter asked, “Wasn’t it the pickets that got the President?” The next afternoon when the vote was called for, and the last Senator had answered to his name, the presiding officer announced the result: “The joint resolution does not pass.” The Suffrage Amendment still lacked two votes. Miss Younger says in her _Revelations of a Lobbyist_: Stunned, as though unable to grasp it, hundreds of women sat there. Then slowly the defeat reached their consciousness, and they began slowly to put on their hats, to gather up their wraps, and to file out of the galleries, some with a dull sense of injustice, some with burning resentment. In the corridors they began to form in groups. Every one wanted to discuss it. But Alice Paul took my arm. “Come,” she said, “we must find out about the short-term candidates and go into the election campaign at once.” Immediately after the vote was taken and defeated, Senator Jones of New Mexico changed his vote and moved that the measure be reconsidered; thereby placing it again on the Senate Calendar, ready to be called up any time and voted on. By going to the Senate in this manner, the President had made his own record clean to the country at large. But he had not made it clean to the National Woman’s Party, because, although he had done something, he had not done enough. He appeared to be doing more than he was, but there was a great deal more that he could have done. He did not, for instance, start his appeal to the Senate early enough. That appeal came only a fortnight before the vote was taken. Possibly he had underestimated the opposition; probably he had overestimated the strength of his own influence. But the country at large of course did not understand that. For the time being, therefore, the Woman’s Party concentrated their drive on another point in the enemy line. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VIII PICKETING THE SENATE AS the Senate was still sitting and could at any time reverse its action in regard to the Suffrage Amendment, the Woman’s Party decided to protest against its defeat of the Amendment and to demand a reversal. They began to picket the Senate and in especial the thirty-four Senators whose adverse vote had again delayed the passage of the Amendment.