's Union of the British Dominions, where
in all but South Africa women were now fully enfranchised.

All were in vain and woman suffrage was not included in the India
Reform Bill but the question was left to the decision of the governing
bodies that had been created. The women then had to begin campaigns
throughout India, mass meetings, petitions, even processions and
lobbying. In May, 1921, the Madras Presidency, one of the largest
divisions of the country, gave the complete franchise to women and it
was followed soon afterwards by the great Bombay Presidency, whose
Legislative Council voted for it by 52 to 25, and by that of Burmah.
Each State has its Legislative Council and a number of these have
given the vote to women. The movement is active for it throughout
India.

FOOTNOTES:

[217] See History of Woman Suffrage, Vol. III, page 832.

[218] On Dec. 6, 1921, Miss Agnes McPhail was elected to the House of
Commons for Southeast Grey.

[219] This Act was heralded far and wide, as it was unprecedented. In
1920, giving as a reason that the Act had been only a war measure, it
was repealed bodily by the Parliament and the old Act substituted with
a few amendments that did not by any means give the privileges
afforded by the new one. It was generally believed that this was done
under the direct influence of England.

CHAPTER LIII.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN MANY COUNTRIES.

When Volume IV of the History of Woman Suffrage was written in 1900
four pages contained all the information that could be obtained in
regard to woman suffrage outside of the United States and Great
Britain and her colonies. At the time the first International Council
of Women was held in Washington, in 1888, under the auspices of the
National Woman Suffrage Association of the United States, Great
Britain was the only other country that had an organization for this
purpose. At the writing of the present volume in 1920 there are
comparatively few countries in the world having a constitutional form
of government where women are not enfranchised. The only two of
influence in Europe are France and Italy; the others are Switzerland,
Spain, Portugal, Greece and Turkey. Women do not vote in Oriental
countries. This is also true of Mexico, Central and South America.

FINLAND.[220]

The first country in Europe to give equal suffrage to women was
Finland in 1906, when it was a Grand Duchy of Russia with its own Diet
or Parliament, whose bills re