ate struck out
this naturalization clause; in the Assembly the Democratic members
wanted it, the Republicans objected to it. On January 20 the Assembly
passed the measure without it. The Senate put back the clause and
passed it January 23 by 40 ayes, two noes--McCue and Frawley of New
York--and returned it to the Assembly, which passed it four days later
by 128 ayes, 5 noes. The resolution had still to pass another
Legislature two years later but this was the beginning of the end for
which two generations of women had worked and waited.

[LAWS. A complete digest of the laws relating to women and children
during the first twenty years of the century was prepared for this
chapter by Miss Kathryn H. Starbuck, attorney and counsellor at law in
Saratoga Springs. It comprises about 3,600 words and includes laws
relating to property, marriage, guardianship, domestic relations, etc.
Much regret is felt that the exigencies of space compel the omission
of the laws in all the State chapters. Miss Starbuck gave also
valuable information on office holding and occupations, which had to
be omitted for the same reason.]

NEW YORK CITY CAMPAIGNS.[130]

The story of the growth of the woman suffrage movement in Greater New
York is one of the most interesting chapters in the history of this
cause, for while it advanced slowly for many years, it rose in 1915
and 1917 to a height never attained elsewhere and culminated in two
campaigns that in number of adherents and comprehensive work were
never equaled.

The Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association was formed May 13, 1869, and
the New York City Society in 1870. From this time various
organizations came into permanent existence until in 1903 there were
fifteen devoted to suffrage propaganda. In Manhattan (New York City)
and Brooklyn these were bound together by county organizations but in
order to unite all the suffragists in cooperative work the Interurban
Woman Suffrage Council was formed in 1903 at the Brooklyn home of a
pioneer, Mrs. Priscilla D. Hackstaff, with the President of the Kings
County Political Equality League, Mrs. Martha Williams, presiding. The
Interurban began with a roster of five which gradually increased to
twenty affiliated societies, with an associate membership besides of
150 women. Under the able leadership of Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
chairman, it established headquarters in the Martha Washington Hotel,
New York City, Feb. 15, 1907, with a secretary, Miss Fannie