s there were monthly meetings and also special and committee
meetings and prominent speakers addressed the annual gatherings,
eulogizing and commemorating the lives and labors of the suffrage
pioneers throughout the Union. Whenever the National American Suffrage
Association called for financial aid it responded liberally. The
suffrage having been gained it was hard to keep up the interest and
after 1910 meetings were held only at the call of the president for
the purpose of carrying out the wishes of the National Suffrage
Association, at whose conventions the Council was always represented
by delegates. In 1909-10, when the association was collecting its
monster petition to Congress, the Council obtained 40,000 names as
Utah's quota.

The official personnel remained practically the same from 1900. That
noble exponent of the best there is in womanhood, Mrs. Emily S.
Richards, preserved the spirit and genius of the Council, which
recognized no party and whose members cast their votes for good men
and measures without undue partisan bias. She was sustained by its
capable and resourceful secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth M. Cohen, and both
maintained a non-partisan attitude in the conduct of the Council. The
officers were: Emmeline B. Wells, member national executive committee;
Elizabeth A. Hayward, Mrs. Ira D. Wines, Dr. Jane Skolfield and Mrs.
B. T. Pyper, vice-presidents; Anna T. Piercey, assistant secretary;
Hannah S. Lapish, treasurer.

As Territory and State, every county, every town, every precinct has
been served faithfully and well by women in various positions. It
would be impossible to name all who have done yeoman service during
the past years but the three women who have meant more than all others
to the suffrage cause are Mrs. Sarah M. Kimball, who was appointed by
Brigham Young and Eliza R. Snow as the standard bearer of that cause
in the late '60's and who maintained her active hold upon politics
until about 1885, when her able first lieutenant, Mrs. Emmeline B.
Wells, took up the work dropped by the aged hands of Mrs. Kimball. She
in turn carried the banner of equal civic freedom aloft, assisted by
Mrs. Richards, until she relinquished it in 1896 and Mrs. Richards
became the standard bearer. Many other splendid women have labored
assiduously in this cause.

In legislative matters a committee from the Council has worked during
every session since 1911 with associated committees from the other
large organizations