Early this year, a schism develops in the Congressional Union's membership. A small group of members withdraws from the Union and supports the newly appointed Congressional Committee of the NAWSA.

January

The organization of the Congressional Union develops further. The Executive Committee grows to include Elizabeth Kent, Edith Hooker, Elsie Hill, and Mrs. Gilson Gardner. Jessie Hardy Stubbs becomes chairman of the press department and reorganizes it with a press chairman in each state. Doris Stevens joins the Union as executive secretary.

A branch of the Congressional Union is organized in Maryland under the chairmanship of Mary B. Dixon. The Delaware headquarters, established in 1913, is maintained by Mabel Vernon. Later in the year a branch of the Union is formed in Minnesota.

Alva E. Belmont becomes interested in the Congressional Union and begins backing it financially. When the Union forms a National Advisory Council in July 1914, Mrs. Belmont becomes one of its most influential members.

January 11

The Congressional Union holds its first meeting of the year at the home of Elizabeth Kent. Mrs. Kent had formed a "Committee of 100" to raise $2,000 for support of the headquarters, but over $9,000 is pledged for the Union's work.

January 24

The House Rules Committee refuses to create a suffrage committee.

February

A deputation of over three hundred working women gathers in Washington. Following a mass meeting on Feb. 2 where Rose Winslow and Doris Stevens speak, the women, led by Elizabeth Glendower Evans and Josephine Drier, march to the White House. President Wilson receives a delegation of twenty-five women who ask him to support the woman suffrage amendment.

February 12

The executive board of NAWSA meets with Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Dora Lewis in an attempt to resolve the differences between the Union and NAWSA. NAWSA later votes against admitting the Congressional Union as an auxiliary member. Throughout the suffrage campaign NAWSA opposes the policy and strategy of the Congressional Union and the National Woman's Party.

March

The Congressional Union sends organizers throughout the United States to encourage suffrage demonstrations in May. Alice Paul and Dora Lewis travel in the Northeast, Mabel Vernon in the Southwest, Emma Smith DeVoe in the West and Northwest, Minnie E. Brooke in the South, Jessie Hardy Stubbs in the Midwest, and Crystal Eastman Benedict in the Northwest and Midwest.

March 3

The Congressional Union conducts a hearing before the Judiciary Committee seeking a favorable report on the Bristow-Mondell suffrage amendment. The speakers at the hearing include Elizabeth Glendower Evans, Cora Smith King, Mary Beard, Elizabeth Kent, Katherine H. Hepburn, and Crystal Eastman Benedict. The Congressional Committee of NAWSA also appears at the hearing and proposes a new amendment that would require states to have a referendum on woman suffrage whenever eight per cent of a state's voters request such a vote. This is much more complicated than the Bristow-Mondell amendment that would grant woman suffrage when three fourths of the state legislature ratify it.

March 19

The suffrage bill is voted on in the Senate and defeated by eleven votes. The next day Senator Bristow reintroduces the suffrage bill and Senator Shafroth introduces NAWSA's recently proposed bill. Both bills are referred to the Woman Suffrage Committee. Representative Palmer submits NAWSA's bill to the House.

April 7

The Bristow-Mondell bill is favorably reported to the Senate.

May 2

Suffrage parades and meetings are held in almost every state. At these demonstrations resolutions are passed favoring a federal suffrage amendment.

May 3

The Shafroth-Palmer bill is favorably reported to the Senate.

May 5

The Bristow-Mondell bill is reported out of the Judiciary Committee to the House. The Union sends delegations to the House Rules Committee asking that the suffrage bill be given time for a vote.

May 9

A national demonstration is held in Washington, D.C. State delegations march from Lafayette Square to the east plaza of the Capitol where a choral presentation is given. The delegates with their resolutions are then received by a committee of senators and representatives who introduce the resolutions in Congress.

June 30

A delegation of five hundred women led by Anna K. Wiley call on President Wilson asking his support for the suffrage amendment.

July-August

The Congressional Union organizes fund raising campaigns in eastern resort areas. On July 1 Doris Stevens opens a headquarters at Newport, Rhode Island, and after a suffrage tour through Maryland, Mary Brennan establishes headquarters at Atlantic City.

The Union launches a successful campaign to increase membership and subscriptions to the Suffragist. In July there are 1794 subscribers; by August there are 2700. The Suffragist undergoes various changes. Alice Paul and Lucy Burns assume editorial and business duties of the paper, taking over for Rheta Childe Dorr, who had resigned as editor in May, and to handle responsibilities previously held by the business manager (whose position is abolished).

July 13

A delegation of over two hundred women led by Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and Matilda Gardner ask the House Rules Committee to allow a vote on the suffrage bill.

August 29-30

A conference of the newly created National Advisory Council is held in Newport, Rhode Island. The Council decides to have the Congressional Union work in the congressional election campaigns in the suffrage states and oppose the Democratic party, which had blocked the suffrage amendment. Two organizers are designated to work in each state from mid-September until election day.

September 14

The Congressional Union organizers leave Washington for the suffrage states. Lucy Burns and Rose Winslow go to California; Doris Stevens and Ruth Astor Noyes to Colorado; Jessie Hardy Stubbs and Virginia Arnold to Oregon; Margaret Whittemore and Anna McCue to Washington; Jane Pincus and Josephine Casey to Arizona; Edna S. Latimer and Lola C. Trax to Kansas; Elsie Lancaster to Utah; Gertrude Hunter to Wyoming; and Helena Hill Weed to Idaho. Mabel Vernon remains in Nevada where she had worked in the suffrage campaign since April. The Union's campaign is a success in that the federal suffrage amendment becomes a major political issue.

November 8

The Congressional Union holds a tea at which Christabel Pankhurst speaks. The Executive Committee meets after the tea and decides to maintain headquarters in the suffrage states. Virginia Arnold remains in Oregon, and Ruth Astor Noyes stays in Colorado.

November 18

The remainder of the organizers are welcomed back to Washington by a mass meeting at which Emmeline Pethick Lawrence speaks.