ffrage resolution in the Legislature
and both were defeated.

The annual convention was held Oct. 13, 1916, at Valley City, the
National Association sending as a representative its first
vice-president, Mrs. Walter McNab Miller of Missouri. It was planned
to organize the State on the lines of its three Congressional
districts, which made a smaller executive board and facilitated its
meetings. The following officers were elected: President, Mrs.
Clendening; treasurer and press chairman, Mrs. Pierce; national and
first congressional district chairman, Mrs. O'Neil; educational and
second district chairman, Mrs. Charles Rathman; third district
chairman, Mrs. Emma Murray; legislative chairman, Mrs. Weible;
publicity chairman, Miss Aldyth Ward. An active campaign was started
to influence legislators for a Presidential and Municipal suffrage
bill and a constitutional amendment. The National Association sent two
organizers to tour the State, arouse interest and raise money. In
February, 1917, one-fifth of the newspapers of the State, representing
four-fifths of the counties, published suffrage editions, and in May a
60-page suffrage edition of a Labor magazine was edited and 5,000
copies distributed. In April the headquarters were largely used for
war work.

The annual convention was held at Bismarck Sept. 25-26, 1917. The
Presidential and Municipal suffrage bills having passed both Houses
and become law the convention decided to concentrate on the Federal
Suffrage Amendment. An emergency executive committee of Fargo women
was elected to cooperate from the State headquarters without delay in
carrying out instructions from the National Association. The following
resolution was adopted: "The North Dakota Votes for Women League,
reaffirming its steadfast loyalty and support to our President and our
Government, will continue to carry on the patriotic work assigned us
by the Government through our National Association, and will redouble
our efforts to gain enfranchisement for the women of the United States
in order that we may do more effective war work." Mrs. Clendening, who
was State president from 1915 to 1920, was now also vice-president of
the State Committee of the Woman's Division of the National Council of
Defense.

LEGISLATIVE ACTION. From the time the convention for statehood failed
to put equal suffrage into the constitution the Women's Christian
Temperance Union kept up the agitation for it. In every Legislature a
s