l maintained the strongest opposition. Miss Adams, the
legislative chairman, and Mrs. Roessing, the State president, did the
greater part of the work at Harrisburg. The association was indebted
to Representative Frank G. Rockwell and Senator A. W. Powell for their
skill in handling this measure. The vote in the Lower House, February
5 was 131 ayes, 70 noes.

1915. A proposed amendment to the constitution must be passed by two
Legislatures. Mrs. Roessing and Miss Hannah J. Patterson, organization
chairman, carried on the lobby work in 1915 and it passed the House on
February 9 by 130 ayes, 71 noes. In the Senate on March 15 a great
gain was registered, as 37 Senators voted aye and only 11 voted no.
The amendment was defeated at the election in November.

1916. The passage of an Enabling Act by the Legislature of 1917 being
the first step toward a referendum in 1921, the work of the State
Suffrage Association in 1916 was concentrated as never before on the
legislative candidates. Practically every one was interviewed
personally or by letter and before the November election reports on 40
of the 50 Senators and all but ten of the 207 members of the House
had been made. Senator Boies Penrose was visited in Washington by Mrs.
George B. Orlady and Mrs. John O. Miller, president and vice-president
of the State Suffrage Association. He said he would help and
authorized these officers to quote him in the public press. On October
9 the Republican State Committee meeting in Philadelphia refused a
hearing to the Suffrage Board and took no action, despite the
favorable assurances of Senator Penrose and of State Senator William
E. Crow, its chairman. On December 28 Governor Martin G. Brumbaugh
promised Mrs. Miller to secure the passage of the desired Enabling
Act.

1917. Mrs. Miller led the work when the Legislature convened in
January, 1917, and Mrs. Antoinette Funk, Mrs. Lewis L. Smith and Mrs.
Harriet L. Hubbs were members of the Legislative Committee. County
chairmen of the suffrage association brought continuous pressure on
their legislators; 270 powerful labor organizations in the State
signed petitions with their official seal and a petition with the
names of 56,000 individual men and women was unrolled on the floor of
the House. Every legislator received a special petition signed by 445
of the most prominent men in the State, a copy of Dr. Shaw's
biography, the Story of a Pioneer, and weekly copies of the _Woman's
Journal_