were cast in favor. The resolution was
then taken to the House, which had organized and was waiting, and,
after suspension of the rules so that the three necessary readings
might be had in one day, it was passed by the unanimous vote of the 93
members present. It was signed at once by the presiding officers and
at half past four of the same afternoon by Governor Goodrich, who
wished in this way to show his agreement, though his signature was not
legally necessary. Mrs. Goodrich, Miss Benbridge, many officers of the
Franchise League and other interested suffragists witnessed the
signing. With this act the long struggle for political rights for
women which began in Indiana in the middle of the nineteenth century
was finished.

A large and enthusiastic meeting of the board of the Franchise League
was then held and there was general congratulation. Miss Benbridge,
who presided, said: "The work that assured the special session and the
result achieved was done, not by the little group of women in the
Indianapolis headquarters, although their work was well done, but by
the women over the State. Much credit for the success belongs to the
Franchise League members everywhere, who have won the sentiment of
their localities for woman suffrage."

FOOTNOTES:

[45] The History is indebted for this part of the chapter to Mrs. Anna
Dunn Noland, president of the Stale Equal Suffrage Association.

[46] The History is indebted for this part of the chapter to Mrs.
Lenore Hanna Cox, an officer of the Woman's Franchise League from its
beginning in 1911 until its work was finished in 1920.

[47] From 1912-1919 the following women served as vice presidents,
some for several terms: Mrs. Meredith Nicholson, Mrs. Felix T.
McWhirter, Mrs. Ovid B. Jameson, Mrs. John F. Barnhill, Mrs. Julia
Fried Walker, Mrs. Isaac Born, all of Indianapolis; Mrs. Lenore Hanna
Cox, Mrs. C. M. Curry, Miss Helen Benbridge, Mrs. Leon Stern, of Terre
Haute; Mrs. Fred McCulloch, Mrs. Olaf Guldlin, of Fort Wayne; Mrs.
Horace Stilwell, Anderson; Mrs. R. M. Johnson, Franklin; Mrs. A. D.
Moffett, Elwood; Miss Adah E. Bush, Kentland; Mrs. A. H. Beardsley,
Elkhart; Mrs. Charles J. Gill, Muncie; Mrs. Chester Evans,
Bloomington; Miss Betsy Jewett Edwards, Shelbyville.

Mrs. Julia C. Henderson, secretary from 1912 to 1917, was succeeded by
Miss Dora Bosart, both of Indianapolis; Mrs. John C. Morrison of
Lafayette, and Mrs. Richard E. Edwards, of Peru.

Miss Harriet Noble