epted, was made honorary president,
and at the meeting of the executive committee in Columbia in July Mrs.
Salley was elected president. During the year work was immensely
strengthened by the contribution of the National Association of 10,000
pieces of literature and of Miss Lola Trax, who in five months
organized forty counties for the petition work for ratification. The
National's expenditures were over $1,700.

The State convention of 1920 met in Columbia in January at the
Jefferson Hotel and was welcomed by Governor Robert A. Cooper, who
said he was convinced that women would soon vote. U. S. Senator
Pollock of Cheraw made a rousing speech in favor of the Federal
Amendment. Mrs. Salley reviewed the year's work, telling of the
distribution of 10,000 copies of Senator Pollock's speech in Congress;
of the new course of citizenship in the State University and of the
growth of the organization. The legislative report of the past five
years was read by the chairman, Mrs. Cathcart. Mrs. Munsell, chairman
of the American Citizenship Committee, reported a ten-day course of
citizenship at Winthrop Summer School; a summer class at the
University of South Carolina; one at Coker College, Hartsville,
conducted by Mrs. J. L. Coker, and a course at Converse College,
Spartanburg. Mrs. Cathcart, chairman of the Resolutions Committee,
read the following: "The State Equal Suffrage League tenders
appreciation and thanks to the members of the General Assembly of
South Carolina, who have fostered the cause ... among them Joseph E.
McCullough, Greenville; A. E. Horton, Spartanburg; James A. Hoyt,
Speaker of the House; Senators J. L. Sherard, Anderson; Neils
Christensen, Beaufort; Allan Johnston, Newberry; Legrande Walker,
Georgetown; T. C. Duncan, Union, and Representative Shelor, Oconee. We
commend William P. Pollock who spoke and voted in the U. S. Senate for
the Federal Suffrage Amendment, for his loyalty to his convictions and
his belief in true democracy." At the afternoon session Miss Marjorie
Shuler, who had been sent by the National Association for press and
publicity work for one month, was one of the principal speakers.
Delegates were elected for the meeting to be called to merge the Equal
Suffrage League into the League of Women Voters. This meeting was held
June 20 at Craven Hall, Columbia, the league was formed and Mrs.
Munsell was elected chairman.

LEGISLATIVE ACTION. In 1902 Mrs. Virginia D. Young, then president of
the