in Committee of the
Whole it granted a hearing. The galleries were crowded with people
from all parts of the State and many women were invited to sit with
the legislators. The speakers urging the resolution were: Mrs. Catt,
Mrs. Wood, Mrs. Winfield L. Shaw of Manchester, also Miss Doris
Stevens representing the National Woman's Party. Those opposing it
were Mrs. Albertus T. Dudley of Exeter, president of the State
Anti-Suffrage Association; James R. Jackson of Littleton; Mrs. John
Balch of Milton, Mass., and Miss Charlotte Rowe of Yonkers, N. Y.,
representing the National Anti-Suffrage Association. The resolution
was carried by 210 to 135 votes.

It was now most important to win the Senate. The twenty-four members
were again interviewed by the suffragists and seventeen declared their
intention to vote for the resolution. On January 14 it was introduced
by Senator John J. Donahue of Manchester and six Senators voted for
it, fifteen against it!

It was generally believed and freely charged that Senator Moses,
astounded at the vote in the House, had used all the influence he
possessed to prevent the Senate from concurring. It was publicly
stated that Senator Lodge and other Republican U. S. Senators urged
the members not to vote for the resolution. When the vote was to be
taken three men, Merrill Shurtleff of Lancaster, alleged to be the
personal representative of U. S. Senator John W. Weeks of
Massachusetts, and the best lobbyist in the State, assisted by Burns
P. Hodgman, clerk of the District Court, and John Brown of Governor
Bartlett's Council, appeared to confer with the legislators. At this
time U. S. Senators Dillingham of Vermont and Wadsworth of New York
published a letter in the papers of the State protesting against the
action of the Republican National Committee in favor of the Federal
Suffrage Amendment. Nothing was left undone to secure an adverse vote
in the New Hampshire Senate. Mrs. Catt issued to the press a detailed
record of each State Senator, showing that 11 of the 15 who voted
against the resolution had signed the petition to Senator Moses asking
him to vote for the Federal Amendment. The adverse vote stood 12
Republicans, 3 Democrats; the Republican president of the Senate not
voting.

Senator Moses returned to Washington and voted against the Federal
Suffrage Amendment every time it came before the Senate; in February,
1919, when it lacked only one vote, he disregarded an urgent appeal
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