in this chapter, assembled November 12, 1872, and
as early as the 22d, resolutions relative to women holding
school-offices and to the property-rights of women were presented.
Numberless petitions for these and full suffrage for women were
sent in during the entire sitting of the convention. February 3,
1873, John H. Campbell presented the minority report of the
Committee on Suffrage and Elections:

The undersigned, members of the Committee on Suffrage, Election
and Representation, dissent from that part of the majority report
of said committee, which limits the right of suffrage to male
electors. We recommend that the question, "Shall woman exercise
the right of suffrage," be submitted by the convention to the
qualified electors of this commonwealth, and also upon the same
day therewith, to those women of the commonwealth who upon the
day of voting shall be of the age of twenty-one years and
upwards, and have been residents of the State one year, and in
the district where they offered to vote at least sixty days prior
thereto; and that if the majority of all the votes cast at said
election should be in the affirmative, then the word "male" as a
qualification for an elector, contained in section ----, article
---- on suffrage and election shall be stricken out, and women in
this State shall thereafter exercise the right of suffrage,
subject only to the restrictions placed upon the male voters.

JOHN H. CAMPBELL,
LEWIS C. CASSIDY,
LEVI ROOKE.

The amendment for full suffrage was lost by a vote of 75 to 25,
with 33 absent, while the amendment making women eligible for
school offices was carried by a vote of 60 to 32.[268] The debate
by those in favor of the amendment was so ably and eloquently
conducted that we would gladly reproduce it, had not all the
salient points been so often and so exhaustively presented on the
floor of congress, and by some of the members from Pennsylvania.

After the passage of the school law of 1873, it was immediately
tested all over the State, rousing opposition and conflict
everywhere, but the struggle resulted favorably to women, who now
hold many offices to which they were once ineligible. At the first
election of school directors in Philadelphia the nomination of two
women