nited States." The other authorized and requested the Governor to
call on the national government, in behalf of the State of Maryland,
to "have the so-called Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act
declared null and void." The reason for his opposition to woman
suffrage was clearly apparent.

On March 30 by a vote of 20 ayes, 7 noes, the Senate passed a joint
resolution introduced by George Arnold Frick authorizing and directing
the Attorney General of Maryland to bring suit or suits to prevent the
Secretary of State of the United States from proclaiming the Federal
Amendment prior to the holding of a referendum thereon in certain
States, and to test the validity, should the same be ratified by the
elected Legislatures of three-fourths of the States. This also passed
in the House. The opponents thought that now they had spiked every gun
but in September it was discovered that the vote on ratification had
been pigeonholed instead of being sent by the Governor to the
Secretary of State in Washington. Immediately there was hustling to
bring it again before the two Houses and on September 22 it was
rejected in the Senate by a vote of 17 to 8 and in the House by 51 to
42, nearly a month after the Federal Amendment had been proclaimed!

A Men's Anti-Suffrage Association had been formed under the name of
the Maryland League for State Defense and a suit was brought by its
board of managers. This was called the case of Leser vs. Garnett,
Judge Leser and his associate lawyers representing this League, Mr.
Garnett representing the Board of Registry of the 7th Precinct of the
11th Ward of Baltimore. On Oct. 12, 1920, Judge Leser challenged the
registration there of Cecilia S. Waters (white) and Mary D. Randolph
(colored) in order to test the validity of what the "antis" called the
"alleged" 19th Amendment. The plea was that it exceeded the amending
power of Article V in the Federal Constitution and that it was not
legally ratified by 36 States. The States arraigned as having
illegally ratified were West Virginia and Missouri. The case came
before the court of common pleas, Judge Heuisler presiding. Besides
Mr. Marbury the attorneys for the petitioners were Thomas Cadwalader,
Senator Frick and Everett P. Wheeler of New York. The defendants were
represented by George M. Brady, Roger Howell, Jacob M. Moses and
Assistant Attorney General Lindsay C. Spencer. The case occupied four
full days and the petitioners lost. Judge Heuisler ru