Cunningham in
its amendment campaign the executive board paid her expenses to that
State and she donated her services. Upon her return to Texas she
devoted July and August to field work, averaging two or three speeches
a day during these insufferably hot months.

When the Legislature convened in January, 1917, the Legislative
Committee were on hand. The following report by Mrs. Cunningham
summarizes the work:

First. Opening suffrage headquarters on the main street at Austin
near the Capitol. Second. A luncheon, at which the attendance
exceeded the capacity of the largest hotel. The program was a
mock legislative session at which the suffrage bill came up for
the third reading and debate, those opposed imitating the style
of the leading "antis" at hearings. Third. A very successful mass
meeting at the Hancock Opera House with good speakers. Fourth.
Introduction of the House Joint Resolution for a suffrage
amendment, signed by twenty members, including some who had
opposed it in 1915. Fifth. Mass meeting in the House of
Representatives the night before the amendment came to a vote,
invitation for this being extended by resolution of the House.
Speaker F. O. Fuller presided and House and gallery were crowded.

Sixth. Introduction of the Primary suffrage bill in the Senate
and House. Seventh. Introduction of the Presidential suffrage
bill. Eighth. Speakers touring the State and keeping the cities
and towns aroused; a constant stream of letters to organizations
and individuals and from them to Representatives. Ninth. Press
work, a weekly news letter to those papers which would reach the
legislators; getting in touch with reporters and editors of the
large daily papers in the State in Austin for the session. First,
last and all the time work at the Capitol, interviewing members
of the House and Senate, Speaker, President, and public men who
could and if asked might help a little here and there. This work
was carried on daily for nearly three months.

It is my judgment that the Presidential suffrage bill could have
been passed (anticipating the Governor's veto though) but for the
fact that the closing days of the session were taken up by the
investigation of the Governor on charges preferred in the House.

On January 31 the Primary suffrage bill was favorably reported by the
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