learned profession.

Following the presentation of Mrs. Foltz' bill, Mrs. Knox
Goodrich, Laura Watkins, Mrs. Wallis and Laura De Force Gordon
were appointed by the State Society a committee to visit
Sacramento during the session and use their influence to secure
the passage of the "Woman's Lawyer Bill," as it was termed, and
to petition for suffrage. Mrs. Gordon, who was also reading law,
was in Sacramento as editorial correspondent for her paper, the
_Daily Democrat_ of Oakland, and had ample opportunity to render
valuable service to the cause she had so much at heart. The bill
passed the Senate by a vote of 22 to 9, being ably advocated by
Senators N. Green Curtis, Judge Niles Searles of Nevada county,
Creed Haymond of Sacramento, and Joseph Craig of Yolo. In the
Assembly, after weeks of tedious delay and almost endless debate,
the bill was indefinitely postponed by a majority of one. By the
persistent efforts of Assemblymen Grove L. Johnson of Sacramento,
R. W. Murphy, Charles Gildea and Dr. May of San Francisco, the
bill was brought up on reconsideration and passed by two
majority. The session was within three days of its close, and so
bitter was the opposition to the bill that an effort was made to
prevent its engrossment in time to be presented for the
governor's signature. The women and their allies, who were on the
watch for tricks, defeated the scheme of their enemies and had
the bill duly presented to Governor Irwin, but not till the last
day of the session. Then the suspense became painful to those
most interested lest it might not receive his approval. Mrs.
Gordon, as editor of a Democratic journal, asserted her claims to
some recognition from that party and strongly urged that a
Democratic governor should sign the bill. Aided by a personal
appeal from Senator Niles Searles to his excellency, her efforts
were crowned with success; the governor's message sent to the
Senate, when the hands of the clock pointed to fifteen minutes of
twelve, midnight (at which hour the president's gavel would
descend with the words adjourning the Senate _sine die_),
announced that Senate bill number 66, which permitted the
admission of women to all the courts of the State, had received
his approval. There was great rejoicing over this victory among