it. It was a dramatic ending of the
long contest--long even in Tennessee, for here too women had grown old
and died in the struggle. Tributes were paid to those who were gone,
among them Mrs. Meriwether who had given her life to the work. The two
pioneers present, Mrs. Allen and Miss Terrett, gave reminiscences of
the early days. Mrs. George Fort Milton was elected president.

A call was issued for the final convention of the State association
and the first convention of the Tennessee League of Women Voters to
meet May 18, 19, 1920, in the House of Representatives at Nashville.
This was signed by the presidents of the following State associations:
Suffrage, Mothers' Congress and Parent Teachers', Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, Federation of Music Clubs, Daughters of the American
Revolution and Press and Authors' Club. Mrs. Milton presided over the
convention and Miss Mary Boyce Temple, regent of the D. A. R.,
presided over the first conference of the League of Women Voters. The
association and the League were merged and Mrs. Milton was elected
chairman.[171]

LEGISLATIVE ACTION. 1911. This year for the first time a resolution
was introduced by Senator Walter White of Dayton "to amend the
constitution so as to give women the ballot." It was referred to the
Constitutional Amendment Committee, Alfred A. Adams, chairman, which
reported adversely. The women in charge were Mrs. J. D. Allen, State
president, and Attorney Frances Wolf, legislative chairman.

1915. The suffragists espoused two bills. The association of which
Mrs. McCormack was president worked for a new State constitution
because of the great difficulty of changing the old one. The
association of which Mrs. Dudley was president asked for an amendment.
It received a "courtesy" vote in favor from the first Legislature and
did not come before a second. Mrs. McCormack, Mrs. Ford, Mrs. Henry J.
Kelso, Mrs. Hall and Miss Wester were the Legislative Committee.

1917. In March the Legislature passed an Act amending the charter of
Lookout Mountain so as to give the women Municipal suffrage. The prime
mover was Attorney James Anderson and Mayor P. F. Jones, and the other
commissioners voted unanimously for it. Mrs. Ford, the State
president, a lifelong resident, had the previous year registered there
in order to call attention to the injustice of "taxation without
representation" but her name was removed from the records. Early in
1917 Mrs. Ford called on Presid