ssion for February 16. When it met there was a
determined effort by one member, Dan Padillo of Albuquerque, to have a
referendum to the voters of the State. All the city was up in
arms--men's organizations, the Y. W. C. A., the W. C. T. U., the
Woman's Committee, the Woman's Party, individual men and women--until
at last he declared that he would vote for the immediate ratification.
The vote in the Senate February 18 was 17 ayes, 8 Republicans, 9
Democrats; 5 noes, all Republicans--Gallegos, Mirabel, Lucero
(Emiliano), Salazar and Sanchez. The vote in the House February 19 was
36 ayes, 23 Republicans, 13 Democrats; 10 noes, 8 Republicans, 2
Democrats.

LEGISLATIVE ACTION. Beginning with 1915 the Federation of Women's
Clubs was able to secure some legislation favorable to women and
children. In 1916 the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, through its
president, Mrs. Harriet L. Henderson, had a Prohibition Amendment
endorsed by the State Republican platform which the Legislature
submitted to the electors in November, 1917. Both parties, all women's
organizations and everybody of influence from the Governor down worked
with zeal for its passage. Miss Anna A. Gordon, national president of
the W. C. T. U., came to the State in October and was a guest at the
convention of the Federated Clubs in Gallup, which voted unanimously
to give all the time until the election to work for its success, and
parades and much individual effort followed. Women went to the polls
with their lists of voters, checking them off as they came and then
going for those who had not voted. It was carried by 20,000 majority,
the largest percentage vote ever given by any State for prohibition.

As the State constitution rendered it impossible to carry an amendment
for woman suffrage the women made no attempt to have the Legislature
submit one, but in 1917 some of the Representatives brought an
amendment resolution before the House, which promptly killed it. As
the State conventions of both political parties this year had declared
in favor of woman suffrage, the committee appointed at the meeting in
the Governor's mansion asked for the Presidential and Municipal
franchise, which the Legislature had power to grant without a
referendum to the voters. They made a spirited campaign with all the
assistance that Governor Lindsey could give and the suffrage societies
throughout the State poured in letters upon the legislators. The vote
in the Senate was 9 ayes,