te and
telegraph the Massachusetts Senators and members of Congress to vote
for the Federal Amendment. Concentrated work was done upon three
doubtful Representatives, one of whom was secured, Carter of Needham.
This proved most fortunate as the House gave exactly the two-thirds
vote.

The work done in 1918 on the great petition for the Federal Amendment
was very successful despite the influenza epidemic. In Worcester,
Springfield, Pittsfield and North Adams women signed numbering more
than 51 per cent. of the men's last vote for President and in Boston
62,000 names were secured or 60 per cent. of that vote. The
anti-suffragists in twenty-four years had accumulated only a little
over 40,000 signatures in the whole State, according to their own
figures. In less than one year the suffragists obtained 70,792 in the
above cities and over 100,000 in the State.

RATIFICATION. When the Federal Amendment was submitted by Congress on
June 4, 1919, the Legislative Committee of the State Association, Mrs.
Anna C. M. Tillinghast, chairman, was expanded into a Ratification
Committee. It had already polled the Legislature, which was in
session. A hearing was held before the Federal Relations Committee
conducted by Mrs. Tillinghast for the suffragists and by Mrs. Henry
Preston White for the "antis," who asked for a referendum to the
voters in place of ratification. The suffrage speakers were Frank B.
Hall, chairman of the Republican State Committee; Joseph Walker,
Progressive Republican; Josiah Quincy, Democrat, Joseph Walsh,
Democrat, of the Senate; Mrs. Bird, Mrs. FitzGerald, Mrs. Pinkham, who
presented a petition of 135,000 names from representative sections of
the Commonwealth; Mrs. Mary Thompson, representing the working women;
Miss Margaret Foley, a prominent Catholic; a representative of the
State W. C. T. U.; Charles J. Hodgson, legislative agent for the
American Federation of Labor. The speakers for the Woman's Party were
Mrs. Morey, Miss Betty Gram, Michael O'Leary, chairman of the
Democratic State Committee, and Mrs. Louise Sykes. On the
anti-suffrage side sixteen women representing the sixteen
congressional districts told of their vote against suffrage in 1915.
Miss Blackwell spoke in rebuttal for the suffragists, Miss Charlotte
Rowe of Yonkers, N. Y., for the "antis." B. Loring Young, Republican
floor leader in the House, acted as chairman of the suffrage Steering
Committee in the House and Joseph Knox in the Senate. Th