e committee
reported in favor of ratification with two dissenting.

The debate in the House on June 25 was notable, about fifteen members
speaking on each side. An amendment calling for a referendum was
defeated by 166 to 67 and ratification carried by 185 ayes to 47
noes. The Senate ratified by 34 ayes, 5 noes. Massachusetts was the
eighth State to ratify. Mrs. Tillinghast expressed especial gratitude
for the assistance given by Governor Calvin Coolidge, Lieutenant
Governor Channing M. Cox, Edwin T. McKnight, President of the Senate,
Joseph E. Warner, Speaker of the House, B. Loring Young, Republican,
and William H. McDonnell, Democratic floor leader, Leland Powers of
the House, Joseph Knox of the Senate and the chairmen of the
Republican and Democratic State committees.

After women had been enfranchised the State and the Boston suffrage
associations conducted citizenship schools in every county to instruct
them in their new duties.

LAWS. [The very complete digest of the legislation of the past twenty
years in relation to women and children, especially to those in the
industries, prepared by Mrs. Teresa A. Crowley, attorney at law, and
filling nine typewritten pages, has to be omitted for lack of space.]

FOOTNOTES:

[79] The History is indebted for the first part of this chapter to
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell, an officer of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association from 1890 to 1912 inclusive; president of the New
England Woman Suffrage Association from 1911, and president of the
Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association almost continuously from 1909
to 1920; and for the second part of the chapter to Mrs. Teresa A.
Crowley, chairman of the Legislative Committee of the State
association from 1909 for many years.

[80] Later presidents were Mrs. Page, Mrs. Teresa A. Crowley, Mrs.
Robert Gould Shaw and Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes. When Mrs. Park was
called to Washington to become national congressional chairman in 1916
Mrs. Wenona Osborne Pinkham succeeded her as executive secretary.

[81] At the annual meeting of the M. A. O. F. E. S. W. on May 1,
officers were elected as follows: President, Mrs. G. Howland Shaw;
vice-presidents, Mrs. J. H. Coolidge, Miss Anna L. Dawes, Mrs. Charles
D. Homans, Miss Agnes Irwin, Mrs. Henry M. Whitney; corresponding
secretary, Miss L. C. Post; recording secretary. Miss Elizabeth
Johnson; treasurer, Mrs. James M. Codman; executive committee, the
officers and Miss Sarah H. Croc