e societies,
and ably advocated but lost by 34 ayes, 60 noes in the House and
defeated in the Senate. A resolution introduced in the Senate asking
for the full suffrage for women with an educational and property
qualification, endorsed only by the Equal Suffrage League, failed to
get a hearing. One in the Senate requiring a literacy test only was
not reported.

1916. The constitutional amendment for full suffrage was introduced in
the House by Lloyd Wilkinson (Democrat) of Baltimore and in the Senate
by Sydney Mudd (Republican) of Charles county and strongly supported.
House vote was 36 ayes, 64 noes. The Senate committee reported
favorably and the vote stood 17 ayes, 7 noes, William F. Chesley the
only Republican who voted no. The lobbyists were Mrs. Hooker, Mrs.
Dora Ogle, Mrs. Robert Moss, Miss Lucy Branham, Miss Maddox, Miss
Gwendolyn Willis, the Rev. Olympia Brown, Mrs. Charles E. Ellicott,
Mrs. Ross Thompson, Miss Emma Weber, Mrs. William H. Maloy, Mrs.
Calvin Gabriel, Mrs. Timanus, Mrs. Howard Schwartz, Mrs. Funck. This
was the last time a State amendment was asked for.

1917. At the special session a bill for Presidential suffrage,
supported by the State association and the Just Government League,
passed the Senate by a vote of 18 ayes, 6 noes, after a joint hearing
held in the State House, where the outside speakers, were Dudley Field
Malone, U. S. Senator Shafroth and Representative Jeannette Rankin. In
the House it failed by a vote of 41 ayes, 56 noes.

1918. The Presidential suffrage bill received in the House 42 ayes, 53
noes; in the Senate 12 ayes, 13 noes.

RATIFICATION. For twenty-five years the women of Maryland tried to get
some form of suffrage from their Legislature without success and it is
not surprising that they felt obliged to look to a Federal Amendment
for their enfranchisement. The delegation in Congress was divided on
its submission, Senator Joseph I. France (Republican) voting in favor
and Senator John Walter Smith (Democrat) in opposition; two
Representatives in favor and five in opposition. After it had been
sent to the Legislatures for ratification in June, 1919, pressure was
brought to bear on Governor Emerson C. Harrington to call a special
session, as it was reported that a majority in favor might be secured.
U. S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer urged it in a letter July
10, saying: "Pennsylvania has already ratified and it will be a
service to our party if a Democratic Stat