On October 31, therefore, after the usual morning arrest, their lawyer applied to Judge Siddons of the District Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus. The Judge declared that the sergeant-at-arms had no right to hold any one without a charge, that he must either make a charge, or release the Suffragists. The sergeant-at-arms released them at once. Nevertheless, when the pickets returned in the afternoon, they were seized in the usual violent fashion and conducted to the guard room. However, although their banners were not returned to them, they were detained but a few minutes. On Friday, they were released as soon as their banners were seized. Fresh banners appeared from time to time all day long. Again consulted, Judge Siddons said that the police had no right to keep the banners. On Saturday, however, the police did not have to seize the banners; there appeared a variation in the picket line. A group of women walked up and down in front of the Senate Office Building. They bore no lettered banners; they bore no tri-colors; but they wore on their arms black mourning bands—in commemoration of the death of justice in the United States Senate. * * * * * On November 21, the Senate declared a recess without considering the Federal Suffrage Amendment. That day, twelve pickets protested against the recess, marching from the Senate Office Building to the Capitol. They were: Alice Paul, Mrs. Lawrence Lewis, Elizabeth Kalb, Clara Wold, Bertha Arnold, Sara Grogan, Julia Emory, Anita Pollitzer, Matilda Young, Mrs. Nicholas Kelly, Olive Beale, Maud Jamison. They carried a banner which read: AMERICAN WOMEN PROTEST AGAINST THE SENATE’S RECESSING WITHOUT PASSING THE SUFFRAGE AMENDMENT. AMERICA ENTERS THE PEACE CONFERENCE WITH UNCLEAN HANDS FOR DEMOCRACY IS DENIED TO HER PEOPLE. THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD CANNOT TRUST HER MEDIATION IF SHE PREACHES DEMOCRACY FOR ALL EUROPE WHILE AMERICANS ARE ARRESTED FOR ASKING FOR IT AT THE CAPITOL. On this occasion, the women were treated outrageously. The police, two to a picket, pounced upon them as they approached the Capitol. One was heard to call, “Help! Help! They’re coming!” Clara Wold was knocked down twice on the Senate steps; was shaken like a rat. They dragged and pushed Alice Paul about as though personally enraged with her. When they were taken into the basement room of the Capitol a crowd of indignant men and women followed. Policeman No. 21 threatened to arrest a man in the crowd because he said: “Sure! I believe in Woman Suffrage.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IX THE THIRD APPEAL TO THE WOMEN VOTERS