the
hope that the U. S. Senate would submit the Federal Suffrage Amendment
the convention for 1918 was delayed from month to month and finally
was held in Philadelphia April 9, 10, 1919. Mrs. Miller was
re-elected. On November 10, 11, the amendment having been submitted,
the 51st and last State convention was held in Philadelphia.[156] The
historic Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association was disbanded and the
League of Women Citizens was organized, to become the League of Women
Voters when the women of Pennsylvania were enfranchised. This name was
adopted Nov. 18, 1920, and Mrs. Miller was elected chairman for two
years.

LEGISLATIVE ACTION. After a lapse of 26 years a second attempt was
made in 1911 under Mrs. Anna M. Orme, as legislative chairman, to
secure a resolution to refer to the voters a woman suffrage amendment
to the State constitution. The Joint Committee of the Judiciary, to
which it was referred, after giving a hearing to the suffragists, sent
it to a special commission which had been appointed to revise the
election laws.

1912. Miss Lida Stokes Adams was legislative chairman when this
commission gave an all day hearing March 22 at City Hall,
Philadelphia, but took no action. This hearing was preceded by a mass
meeting on the 20th in Witherspoon Hall. An effort was made to get an
endorsement from the State political conventions. Miss Mary E.
Bakewell of the Western Equal Franchise Federation appeared before the
Republican convention May 1; Mrs. Mabel Cronise Jones, Miss Adams and
Miss Bakewell addressed the Democratic convention May 7, and both gave
approval. The Keystone and Prohibition party conventions also heard
suffrage speakers and adopted favorable resolutions. For the first
time all of the 880 candidates for the Legislature were interviewed by
a letter as to submitting the question to the voters and 283 gave
affirmative answers.

1913. This year the referendum measure passed after a bitter contest.
Twice when the resolution came up in the Senate the motion to postpone
was avoided on a tie vote by Lieutenant Governor Reynolds, the first
time in thirteen years that the president of the Senate had voted on
any question. On the final vote the majority of one was only secured
by the labor leader, Steve McDonald of Lackawanna county, who forced
its Senator, Walter McNichols, to represent his constituents. Senators
Edwin M. Herbst, Edward E. Beidleman (later Lieutenant Governor) and
James P. McNicho