All the suffrage
organizations in the State, with the Federated Clubs and the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, started to work immediately to make sure
of a large majority. Legislators were visited by their constituents
and letters and telegrams were showered on them by prominent men and
women from other sections of the State.

On July 1 the suffragists gathered in Jefferson City and opened a
State board meeting with a luncheon and speeches at the New Central
Hotel to which every one was welcome. At 7 o'clock the ratification
dinner took place, with members of the Legislature as the invited
guests of the State association. Every foot of space in the
dining-room, ante-room and lobby of the hotel was filled with tables.
The Governor and Lieutenant Governor were escorted to the hall by
prominent suffragists and both made stirring appeals.

At 10 o'clock the morning of July 3, a procession of women wended its
way from the hotel to the beautiful new Capitol. The yellow parasols,
which had figured in every suffrage celebration since the time of the
historic Golden Lane in 1916, were everywhere in evidence and yellow
banners, ribbons and flowers gave the dominant note of color to the
scene. The galleries in both Senate and House were filled. The
resolution passed the House by a vote of 125 to 4; the Senate by a
vote of 29 to 3.

A great sorrow came in the midst of the rejoicing, as the news was
received that Dr. Anna Howard Shaw died the evening before the
ratification. She had addressed the Legislature in other years and
both Houses passed resolutions of regret.

Missouri women will forever remember gratefully the 50th General
Assembly, as it did all possible for it to do toward their
enfranchisement. It memorialized Congress urging the passage of the
Federal Suffrage Amendment; it passed the Presidential suffrage bill
and it promptly ratified the Amendment.

A called convention of the State association was held October 16-18,
at the Hotel Statler in St. Louis and the name was changed to the
Missouri League of Women Voters. Mrs. Gellhorn was elected chairman.
Every district was represented by the 122 delegates present.

LEGISLATIVE ACTION. 1913. A petition signed by 14,000 voters of the
State, of whom 8,000 were from St. Louis, was presented to the
Legislature asking it to submit an amendment for woman suffrage at the
election of 1914. The women who had had charge of the petition were
Mrs. David O'Neil, president,