her
petition signed by 4,000 men and women asking for the repeal of the
above obnoxious law. It was refused and the Supreme Court sustained
the refusal.

The women did not relax their efforts. Mass meetings were held in
Vienna and the provincial capitals under the auspices of the Woman
Suffrage Committee and other committees were formed. They published a
monthly paper and many of the newspapers took up their cause. In 1910
they sent a deputation to the Premier and Minister of Internal
Affairs, which was sympathetically received, and the latter said that
not only ought the law to be repealed but women should have the
Municipal franchise. A Socialist Deputy brought the matter of the law
before the Constitutional Committee, which reported it to the Chamber,
where the sentiment was almost unanimous for its repeal. It went to
the Upper House but before it could be sanctioned the Parliament was
dissolved. In the autumn of 1913 a new Law of Assemblies was passed
from which the section so bitterly opposed was omitted and in fact the
women had been defying it. They began at once a nation-wide suffrage
organization, which affiliated with the International Alliance. The
next year the country was immersed in a World War which continued over
four years. At the end of it the Government passed into the hands of
the people. The new constitution provided that all women over 20
should have full suffrage and eligibility to all offices, national and
State, on the same terms as men. For the first elections the following
February the Austrian Union of Suffrage Societies and the National
Council of Women worked together and it was estimated that 2,000,000
women voted; eight were elected to the National Constituent Assembly,
twelve to the city council of Vienna and 126 to other municipal
councils.

HUNGARY.

Women were not prohibited from political activities in Hungary as in
Austria and when the International Woman Suffrage Alliance was formed
in Berlin in 1904 Rosika Schwimmer came from Budapest with a report
that in 1900 Francis Kossuth and Louis Hentaller were advocating woman
suffrage in the Parliament and in 1903 women were working with men for
political reforms. By 1905 a Woman Suffrage Association was formed,
auxiliary to the International, mass meetings were held and petitions
were sent to the Parliament. In 1906 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the
international president, and Dr. Aletta Jacobs, president of the
Netherlands National