tution, of which Senator Minor was chairman. At
the meeting of the committee W. B. Mixon of Pike county was authorized
to draft a resolution ratifying the amendment, to be offered in the
Senate as a substitute. This was done and Senators Minor, Mixon and
Fred B. Smith made a majority report. This resolution was earnestly
advocated by Senators Percy Bell and Walton Shields of Washington
county, W. B. Roberts of Bolivar, Fred B. Smith of Union, A. A. Cohn
of Lincoln and E. F. Noel of Holmes. It failed of adoption and the
Winter resolution was recommitted to the Committee on Constitution,
where it remained.

In the meantime Senator Mixon had introduced a bill in the Senate
giving the right to women to vote in Primary elections and
Representative A. J. Whitworth of Pike county a similar one in the
House. In Mississippi a nomination is equivalent to an election. Both
bills were defeated. A resolution for a woman suffrage amendment to
the State constitution to be submitted to the voters at the election
of November, 1920, passed both Houses with very little opposition.
During the last three weeks of the session Senator Mixon introduced a
bill giving the right of suffrage to women in the event of the
ratification of the Federal Amendment by thirty-six Legislatures, thus
enabling them to vote in the August primaries, and Representative
Whitworth introduced two bills, one giving suffrage to women in
primary elections and the other in general elections, both contingent
upon ratification. These bills passed without opposition.

During the last week of the Legislature Senator Roberts called out of
the committee the original Winter Resolution of Rejection and in
Committee of the Whole it was amended by striking out the word
"reject" and substituting the word "ratify." Thus amended the vote in
the Senate stood 21 ayes, 21 noes and Lieutenant Governor H. H.
Casteel broke the tie in favor of its adoption. News of the Senate's
favorable action spread all over the country in a few hours. Telegrams
came pouring in to the Governor and Legislature offering
congratulations and appealing to the House to make Mississippi the
36th State to ratify.

The Senate substitute was presented to the House the next afternoon,
March 31. Representative Winter moved that the House "do not concur
with the Senate Resolution of Ratification." Immediately there came
calls for the vote. Telegrams were on the Speaker's stand from William
Jennings Bryan, Homer