h the Woman's Committee of the
Council of Defense. Mrs. Brooks and her entire board were re-elected.
As guests of the Wichita Equal Suffrage Society delegates and visitors
were entertained at tea in the home of the Hon. Henry J. Allen.

The convention of 1919 was held in Wichita June 10-11. Mrs. Brooks had
been elected president of the National League of Women Voters and the
Kansas association loyally changed its name to the State League of
Women Voters. A largely attended "victory dinner" was given at the
Lassen Hotel. Mrs. Brooks was succeeded by Mrs. Henry Ware Allen, who
later resigned, and the Executive Board in November called on the well
beloved veteran, Mrs. Catharine A. Hoffman, again to take the
presidency. A special meeting of the association and a citizenship
school were held in Wichita Jan. 19-25, 1920, the latter conducted by
Miss Marie B. Ames of St. Louis, the regional director of the National
League of Women Voters.

LEGISLATIVE ACTION. After an amendment to the State constitution was
defeated by the voters in 1894, women asked for full suffrage only now
and then, but encouraged by Henry B. Blackwell of Massachusetts they
made special efforts after 1900 to obtain the vote for presidential
electors.

1901. The Presidential suffrage bill passed the Senate by a vote of 22
to 13, but the next day the vote was reconsidered on motion of Senator
G. A. Knofster and the bill defeated by 23 to 13. It died on the House
calendar. On January 14 Representative J. A. Butler of Wyandotte
county introduced a bill the purpose of which was to deprive women of
Municipal suffrage. A storm of protests began at once to pour in and
it was estimated that 10,000 letters were sent to members by women
from their home districts. The bill was twice killed in committee and
received less than ten votes, amid derision and laughter, when its
author tried to have it placed on the calendar.

1903. Senator Dumont Smith introduced the Presidential suffrage bill
and worked faithfully for it, but it was defeated on January 28 by 21
noes, 13 ayes. Cyrus Leland introduced it in the Lower House, where it
was killed in Committee of the Whole on February 11 by 62 noes, 57
ayes. At this session an extension of bond suffrage was granted to
women. They had had the right to vote on bonds for school buildings
since 1887, but this act extended the privilege to all other public
improvements in cities of the first class.

1905. Governor Edward W. Ho