all parties adopted
planks favoring the enfranchisement of women. What was known as "the
woman suffrage session" followed.

1919. Resolution urging the U. S. Senate to submit a Federal Suffrage
Amendment: Assembly 75 for, 14 against; Senate 23 for, 4 against.
Presidential suffrage bill granting to women the right to vote for
presidential electors: Assembly 80 for, 8 against; Senate 25 for, one
against. Law extending the right of suffrage to women subject to a
referendum, passed without an aye and no vote in both Houses. It was
repealed after ratification of the Federal Amendment made it
unnecessary.

RATIFICATION. The Federal Suffrage Amendment was submitted by Congress
on June 4, 1919. The Wisconsin Legislature ratified it about 11
o'clock in the morning on June 10, with one negative vote in the
Senate, two in the House. A special messenger, former Senator David G.
James (the father of Ada L. James), started for Washington on the
first train carrying the certificate from the Governor and he brought
back a statement from J. A. Tonner, Chief of the Bureau of Rolls and
Library, Department of State, that "the certified copy of the
ratification resolution by the Legislature of Wisconsin is the first
which has been received." The Illinois Legislature ratified an hour
earlier but owing to a technical error it had to ratify a second time.
The two U. S. Senators LaFollette and Lenroot and eight of the eleven
Representatives from Wisconsin voted for the Federal Amendment on its
final passage through Congress.

FOOTNOTES:

[206] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Theodora W.
Youmans, president of the State Woman Suffrage Association from 1913
until its work was finished in 1920.

[207] The following were the officers for the first twelve years:
Vice-presidents: Mrs. Jessie M. Luther, Mrs. Madge Waters, Mrs. Laura
James, Vida James, Mrs. E. C. Priddle, Miss Linda Rhodes;
corresponding secretaries: Miss Lucinda Lake, Mrs. Margaret Geddes,
Mrs. Emma Geddes, Miss Lena Newman, Mrs. B. Ostrander, Mrs. Nellie K.
Donaldson; recording secretaries: Miss Marion W. Hamilton, Miss Emma
Graham, Mrs. Ethel Irish, Miss W. von Bruenchenhein; treasurers: Mrs.
Dora Putnam, Mrs. Lydia Woodward, Mrs. F. H. Derrick, Mrs. A. B.
Sprague, Mrs. B. Ostrander, Gwendolen Brown Willis; chairmen Executive
Committee: Ellen A. Rose, Mrs. Etta Gardner, Mrs. Kate Rindlaub.

[208] Near the end of the campaign Miss Mary Swain Wagner from New