me of them have been replaced by better ones.

Under direction of the executive board of the federation this
department sent out questionnaires to all of the State candidates for
office in 1916 as to whether they would work for placing women on the
State boards and use their influence to bring the Federal Amendment to
a successful vote in the United States Senate and House. Their members
were also interrogated as to whether they would work and vote for it.
Therefore the Legislative Department of the Federated Clubs really did
the work that any suffrage organization would do and had the backing
of the women of the State in general. Suffrage was unanimously
endorsed in the convention of the federation at Silver City in 1914.
It is to the credit of the work of the Federated Clubs in the State
that its members of Congress, with one exception, have needed no
lobbying from suffrage forces in Washington. Senator Andrieus A.
Jones, as chairman of the Suffrage Committee, made the submission of
the amendment possible in the present Congress by his systematic and
forceful course in the last one.

Mrs. Lindsey remained chairman of this department six years. In 1913
she was appointed State chairman for the National American Woman
Suffrage Association by its president, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. In 1914
the suffragists had a "float" in the parade at the State fair in
Albuquerque. In May, 1916, the National Association under the
presidency of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, sent one of its organizers,
Miss Lola Walker of Pittsburgh, for ten days to look over the
situation and she visited Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Portales and Las
Vegas. In the last place she spoke before the Woman's Club with about
eighty present and at the close of her talk a vote was taken which
stood unanimous for suffrage. At Portales a society was formed and a
large evening reception was held to which both men and women were
invited. Miss Walker gave a very interesting resume of woman suffrage
which aroused much interest. An appeal was sent to the National
Association to return her for a fall campaign to organize the State as
an auxiliary. She went to Maine, however, and Miss Gertrude Watkins of
Little Rock was sent to New Mexico in January, 1917. She visited the
eastern and central parts of the State organizing leagues in most of
the towns. In Santa Fe one was formed of about thirty members with
Mrs. Paul A. F. Walter president; Mrs. R. W. Twitchell secretary, and
Mrs. Elle