Mrs. Emmeline B. Wells,
head of the Relief Society, and every demand of the Government was
fully met.

RATIFICATION. At the request of the Suffrage Council and without
urging, Governor Simon Bamberger called a special session of the
Legislature for Sept. 30, 1919, to ratify the Federal Suffrage
Amendment submitted the preceding June. The resolution was presented
by Senator Elizabeth A. Hayward and was ratified unanimously by both
Houses within thirty minutes. The Governor signed it without delay.
The women and the Legislature had helped in every possible way to
secure the Amendment and the entire Utah delegation in Congress had
voted for it.

A striking event in the train of possible fruitful activities left
behind was the visit of the great leader, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
president of the National American Suffrage Association, with her able
young assistants, who came to Utah for Nov. 16-18, 1919. She was
accompanied by Dr. Valerie Parker and Mrs. Jean Nelson Penfield,
chairmen in the National League of Women Voters, and Miss Marjorie
Shuler, director of publicity for the National Association. The
convention, held in the Assembly Hall, was in charge of the Suffrage
Council, its president, Mrs. Richards, assisted by Mrs. Cohen and Mrs.
E. E. Corfman. A long and valuable program was carried out. Mrs. Catt
spoke in the Tabernacle on Sunday afternoon, introduced by President
Charles W. Penrose with a glowing tribute to her power as a leader, to
the sincerity and womanliness of her character and to the catholicity
of her vision and sympathy. There were banquets, teas and receptions.

At the close of the convention the Suffrage Council, which had
rendered such splendid service for the past twenty years, was merged
into the State League of Women Voters and Mrs. Richards willingly
resigned her leadership to its chairman, Mrs. Clesson S. Kinney.

On Feb. 12, 1920, a jubilee celebration was held in honor of the
fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the woman suffrage bill by the
Territorial Governor S. A. Mann. There was also celebrated the
granting of the complete franchise by the immense majority of the
voters in 1895.

Utah celebrated in Salt Lake City August 30, with a great
demonstration, the triumph of woman suffrage in the United States
through the ratification of the Federal Amendment, which had been
proclaimed August 26. It was introduced with an impressive parade led
by bands of music and the program of cerem