port and when
this motion was made the suffrage supporters started a "filibuster"
which they continued for several days. Finally the anti-suffrage
Senators promised that if the suffragists would call off their
"filibuster" they would vote to recommit the resolution to the
committee with the understanding that it would stay there the
remainder of the session. But on the same day that this agreement was
made Senator Parker introduced another resolution, which, like the
Jones substitute, called for rejection of ratification. It was
reported favorably by the committee and after several days' debate,
Senators Claude Pittman, W. H. Dorris, H. H. Elders and George G.
Glenn, speaking for ratification, the rejection resolution was carried
on July 24 by 39 to 10. The Senate then voted down a proposition to
submit to the voters a woman suffrage amendment to the State
constitution. On the same day the Jackson resolution to reject was
presented in the House and after a spirited debate led by Judge
Covington and A. S. Anderson for ratification the resolution was
carried by 132 to 34.

This contest had occupied about two-thirds of the time since the
Legislature convened and yet the opponents, after all their efforts,
failed to have the Legislature go on record as rejecting the Federal
Amendment, for the House resolution was never concurred in by the
Senate and the Senate resolution was never concurred in by the House
and the session adjourned without completing formal action. President
Wilson had sent a telegram urging ratification for party expediency
and U. S. Senator Harris went to Atlanta to lobby for either
ratification or no action, but he was denounced by the legislators and
the President was called a "meddler." Members of the Democratic
National Committee and Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta
_Constitution_, and James Hallanan, its political editor, strongly
supported ratification, as did Governor Dorsey. The suffrage
associations made no effort in 1920, knowing the hopelessness of it.
The National Woman's Party endeavored to secure an Enabling Act, so
that women might vote under the Federal Amendment although the time
for registration had passed, but were not successful.

The last meeting of the Equal Suffrage Party was held in Atlanta
during the regional conference of the National League of Woman Voters.
Thirty-five States had ratified the Federal Amendment, and feeling
assured that ratification would soon be fully acco