The House of Ladies

Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, President National Woman's Party, announced that next Winter two Congresses will sit on Capitol Hill. One elected by the voters of the country will occupy the Capitol and carry on the business of the United States much as it has been conducted since 1789. The other, chosen by state branches of the National Woman's Party will sit in a nearby building, and, dealing with the same subjects as the regular Congress, dispose of national business in such an improved manner as it believes the women of the country approve.

The National Woman's Party is an organization which, unlike the National League of Women Voters, believes in separate political action by women outside of "men's" political parties. It is also opposed to special legislation to protect women in industry because it holds that fixing minimum wages and maximum hours for women workers places them at a disadvantage in competing with men workers. In other words, it advocates blanket equality for women.

Mrs. Belmont, who endowed her organization and purchased for it three large buildings near the Capitol, believes that the new parliament of women will function as a considerable moral influence on the Federal Congress, by giving example as well as precept.

Plans for the women's parliament will be discussed and perfected at a conference of the National Women's Party at Seneca Falls, N. Y., on July 20. "This conference will be held on the 57th anniversary of the first equal rights meeting and the headquarters will be in the hall where the first equal rights conference met."