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Municipal suffrage to "every bona fide resident of the city of
Baltimore, male or female, 21 years of age.... (a) If such person is
qualified to vote for members of the House of Delegates; or (b) can
read or write from dictation any paragraph of more than five lines in
the State constitution; or (c) is assessed with property in said city
to the amount of $300 and has paid taxes thereon for at least two
years preceding the election...." The league was fortunate in securing
as attorney Judge Jacob M. Moses of the Juvenile Court. He conducted a
hearing on February 16 in the House of Delegates attended by both
branches of the Legislature. Six hundred women and men went on a
special train to Annapolis, carrying a petition for the bill
representing 173,000 names. The speakers were Dr. Howard Kelly of
Johns Hopkins, president of the Men's League; Dr. Mary Sherwood of the
medical department; Judge Moses, Mrs. Ellicott, Mrs. Ida Husted Harper
of New York, Miss Janet Richards of Washington, Misses Julia Rogers,
Mary E. Lent, Ellen La Mott and Sarah Brookes. The House committee
reported eight to one in favor. The advocates in the House were Robert
H. Carr, who introduced the bill, H. Pairo, R. F. Beacham and Mr.
Henderson. It received 67 noes, 24 ayes and did not come before the
Senate. Three other woman suffrage bills were defeated this session.

In 1909-1910 Mrs. Donald R. Hooker, chairman of the Lecture Committee,
was instrumental in securing many noted speakers for public meetings.
In 1910 she formed the Just Government League of Maryland, which was
affiliated with the National Association for six years. Miss Lent was
president two years and then Mrs. Hooker continuously.

In 1910 a field secretary was engaged by the Equal Suffrage League,
ward organization progressed and money was raised through rummage
sales, lawn fetes, suppers at headquarters, etc. In 1911 the _New
Voter_ was started, a lively suffrage paper, with Miss Anne Wagner as
editor-in-chief. A committee was appointed, with Mrs. Charles E.
Ellicott chairman, to investigate methods in the Criminal Court of
conducting trials when young girls were witnesses in cases of assault,
etc. This committee attended trials and employed a woman to keep
records of cases and decisions. Later it had the first woman probation
officer appointed and paid her salary until 1916, when Mayor Preston
agreed to its payment by the city temporarily.

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