f State
Legislatures."

This case also went to the U. S. Supreme Court and there both of them
rested. Meanwhile millions of women voted in the general election on
Nov. 2, 1920, and in the State and local elections which followed
through 1921, and the cases were almost forgotten. Finally in
February, 1922, the court heard the arguments, the Government
represented by Solicitor General James M. Beck. On the 27th it handed
down its decision on the two cases. It upheld the authority of
Congress under the Constitution of the United States to submit the
amendment; declared that "the validity of the 15th Amendment had been
recognized for half a century"; that "the Federal Constitution
transcends any limitations sought to be imposed by the State"; that
"the Secretary of State having issued the proclamation the amendment
had become a part of the National Constitution."

This was the decision of the highest legal authority, from which there
was no appeal.

FOOTNOTES:

[131] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Ida Husted
Harper, author of the Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, and with Miss
Anthony of Volume IV of the History of Woman Suffrage, which ended
with 1900.

[132] For full account see History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I, page
67.

[133] Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, Chapter XVI.

[134] The American Woman Suffrage Association was organized in
Cleveland, O., Nov. 25, 1869, with the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
president; Lucy Stone, chairman of the executive committee, to work
especially for amending State constitutions. The two bodies united in
February, 1890, under the name National American and the association
thenceforth worked vigorously by both methods.

[135] History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II, page 734.

[136] For full account see History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV,
Chapter VI.

[137] In 1913 and the years following strenuous work with members of
Congress was done by the Congressional Union, afterwards called the
National Woman's Party.

[138] For full report of this hearing see Chapter XVIII.

[139] For speech in full see Appendix for this chapter.

[140] As soon as the certificate was despatched Mrs. Catt left
Nashville, where she had been for six weeks, accompanied by Mrs.
Harriet Taylor Upton, vice-chairman of the National Republican
Executive Committee; Miss Charl Williams, vice-chairman of the
Democratic National Committee, and Miss Marjorie Shuler, the National
Associat