t them from the East but were of slight
importance. The State petition work was stopped by the epidemic of
influenza in the autumn of 1918 and after the first of the next year
the apparent favorable attitude of the Legislature made it
unnecessary, but already in forty counties the names of 5,800 men and
20,000 women had been obtained. Self-denial Day was originated by Miss
Harriet Bain of Wisconsin and adopted by the National Association. The
fund in this State was over $400.

The State association was prompt to organize for war work and formed
all the committees recommended by the National American Suffrage
Association. Many suffrage leaders served as leaders of the war work
in their communities. The president was on the Woman's Committee of
the State Council of Defense and State chairman for Americanization.
The association sent $1,590 for the Oversea Hospitals financed by the
National Association.

The relations of the State with the National Association have been
very cordial. It has sent a large delegation to each of the national
conventions and paid its quota for the support of national work, about
$1,500 in 1919.

In February, 1919, the Legislature gave Presidential suffrage to women
and the submission of the Federal Amendment was near at hand. The last
meeting of the State association, a Good Citizenship convention, was
held in Milwaukee Oct. 29-Nov. 1. The program was devoted to the
intelligent and patriotic use of the ballot. Mrs. Nancy M. Schoonmaker
came from Connecticut to give six lectures on Citizenship for Women. A
plan was adopted for publishing a Citizenship Manual and engaging a
traveling representative to teach good citizenship to groups of women
throughout the State. The convention provided that the association
should automatically cease to exist as soon as the Federal Amendment
was ratified, in any case not later than March 1, 1920, and should be
replaced by a State League of Women Voters. This took place on
February 20 and Mrs. Ben Hooper was elected chairman.[211]

LEGISLATIVE ACTION. 1901. Provision was made for separate ballot boxes
for women, making fully operative the School Suffrage Law of 1885.

1903. A Municipal suffrage bill received a small vote. A full suffrage
measure introduced in the Assembly by David Evans was lost by only one
and had a large vote in the Senate.

1905. A Municipal suffrage bill was passed by the Assembly; not acted
upon by the Senate.

1909. A bill for a re