fe of U.
S. Senator Sargent, who in 1878 first introduced the Federal Suffrage
Amendment; Mrs. Swift, wife of John F. Swift, Minister to Japan; Mrs.
William Keith, wife of the distinguished artist; Mrs. Isabel A.
Baldwin and Mrs. Nellie Holbrook Blinn, all officers of the State
Suffrage Association also at different times. Dr. Alida C. Avery was
its treasurer and Mrs. Sarah G. Pringle its press representative for a
number of years. Its membership comprised many influential women, it
held regular meetings and was a liberal contributor to suffrage work
in California and other States. In 1911, when all the suffrage clubs
were disbanding, this one remained in existence and continued to hold
social meetings for many years.

In 1916-17 the Committee of Political Science of the State Federation
of Women's Clubs, Mrs. Seward A. Simons, president, made a Survey of
the results of five years of woman suffrage in California, which was
widely circulated. It was a most valuable resume of the registration
and the vote of women, the legislation they had obtained, the offices
they had held, their service on juries, their political work and the
effect of the suffrage on women and on public life. A very complete
report was made also by Mrs. Coolidge, president of the Civic League.

LEGISLATIVE AND CONVENTION ACTION. 1901. A bill for School suffrage
was defeated.

1905. A resolution to submit a constitutional amendment was defeated
in both Houses by large majorities. A bill legalizing prize fighting
was passed the same day.

1906. A Suffrage State Central Committee of twenty-one competent
workers was organized, Mrs. Lillian Harris Coffin, chairman, Mrs.
Katharine Reed Balentine, secretary, and it continued its activities
in behalf of an amendment to the State constitution for the next five
years. The plan was to secure its endorsement by all conventions and
organizations and have it incorporated in the platforms of the
political parties and the Central Committee was divided into
sub-committees with representatives in every part of the State. The
Executive of this Central Committee, Mrs. Mary S. Sperry, Mrs. Nellie
Holbrook Blinn, Mrs. Helen Moore and Mrs. Coffin, were the delegates
to the State Republican convention in Santa Cruz in 1906, which was
completely under the control of the "machine." It was at this
convention that the "insurgent" sentiment began to crystallize into
the "progressive" movement. Woman suffrage was not put in t