January 5

The National Woman's Party holds a hearing before the House Woman Suffrage Committee.

January 9

President Wilson publicly declares himself in favor of the federal suffrage amendment.

January 10

The Susan B. Anthony amendment is passed by the House by a vote of 274 to 136.

The Woman's Party turns its attention to Senate passage of the amendment. Speakers such as Lucy Burns, Abby Scott Baker, Doris Stevens, Beulah Amidon, Lillian Ascough, Mary Winsor, and Sarah T. Colvin tour the country to gain support for the amendment's passage. Dudley Field Malone speaks at several large meetings and calls for Senate passage of the amendment.

NWP organizers are sent again to various states to pressure senators to vote for the amendment. The organizers include Julia Emory in Maine and Pennsylvania; Rebecca Hourwich in Massachusetts; Iris Calderhead in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Colorado; Lucy Branham in Tennessee and Georgia; Gladys Greiner in Michigan, Virginia, and Maryland; Clara Rowe in Florida, Delaware, Tennessee in California, Washington, Illinois, and Idaho; Joy Young in Michigan; Catherine Flanagan in Connecticut; Ella C. Thompson in Texas; and Kate Heffelfinger in Virginia.

The NWP continues its policy to oppose the election of all Democratic senators. Special emphasis is placed on the senatorial elections of New Hampshire and New Jersey, where it supports suffrage candidates against anti-suffrage candidates who are running for the unexpired terms of deceased senators. Both suffrage candidates are defeated. Special emphasis is also placed on Idaho where Senator Borah runs for reelection. Borah supports suffrage but refuses to vote for the amendment on the basis of states rights.

February

Abby Scott Baker secures from the Republican National Committee a resolution supporting passage of the Susan B. Anthony amendment. The Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee also endorses the amendment. The NWP launches an intensive lobbying campaign to gain the necessary Senate votes.

May 6

Andrieus Jones calls up the suffrage bill on the Senate calendar. The vote is scheduled to take place on May 10, but opposition forces postpone it. The rescheduled vote on June 27 is again delayed by a threatened filibuster.

August 6

The NWP holds an open-air meeting at Lafayette Park at which nearly one hundred women participate by carrying banners and speaking. The police break up the meeting and arrest forty-eight women including hold Alice Paul and Lucy Burns.

August 12

Many of the same women arrested on Aug. 6 hold two open-air meetings, at which additional arrests are made.

August 15

Twenty-six suffragists arrested on Aug. 12, including Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, are sentenced to ten or fifteen days in the old District Workhouse. They demand treatment as political prisoners, and twenty-four begin a hunger strike. The prisoners are released on Aug. 20.

September 16

The suffragists burn a speech by Woodrow Wilson at a meeting at Lafayette Park. No arrests are made.

September 26

Senator Jones again brings the suffrage amendment up for consideration and it is debated by the Senate for several days.

September 30

President Wilson addresses the Senate and requests that it pass the Susan B. Anthony amendment as a war measure. The Senate defeats the amendment on Oct. 1, but puts it on the calendar for reconsideration.

October 7

The NWP begins a new picket. Throughout the month picketers stand with banners before the Capitol or the Senate Office Building. Each time the picketers appear they are arrested, detained, then later released.

December 14-16

The NWP holds a conference of its National Advisory Council, the National Executive Committee, and state officers in Washington, D.C. On the final day of the conference, three hundred suffragists gather in Lafayette Park where they burn Wilson's speeches.