ication was introduced jointly by the four women
members and passed both Houses without a dissenting vote. Protests
from Mrs. Mabel G. Millard and Mrs. Frances Williams of the Iowa and
Virginia Associations Opposed to Woman Suffrage were listened to in
the Senate with good-natured amusement.

In the second Legislature of the new State, the first after women were
enfranchised, Mrs. Frances W. Munds of Prescott served as Senator and
Mrs. Rachel Berry of St. Johns as Representative. The third had in the
Lower House Mrs. Rosa McKay of Globe, Mrs. Theodora Marsh of Nogales
and Mrs. Pauline O'Neill of Phoenix. The fourth had Mrs. McKay and
Mrs. H. H. Westover of Yuma.

About ten times as many women as men are teachers in the public
schools.

FOOTNOTES:

[5] The History is indebted for this chapter to Mrs. Frances W. Munds,
president of the State Woman Suffrage Association until women were
enfranchised and then elected State Senator.

CHAPTER III.

ARKANSAS.[6]

There was little general suffrage activity in Arkansas before 1911;
perhaps the only specific work after 1900 was an occasional article
written by Mrs. Chester Jennings of Little Rock and published in
various papers in the State. She was called "the keeper of the light."
Arkansas was not affiliated with the National American Association
prior to 1913, there was only correspondence between individual
suffragists and national officers.

In January, 1911, the Political Equality League was organized in
Little Rock. This organization came about indirectly as a result of an
article written by Mrs. D. D. Terry of this city and published on the
front page of the _Arkansas Gazette_, the largest paper in the State.
It was in answer to a scathing criticism of women by another paper for
attending the trial of a child victim and was a demand that the
suffrage should be given to women.

Immediately following this occurrence Mrs. J. W. Markwell called a
public meeting in one of the Methodist churches to discuss this
question. She was chairman and Mrs. Rice, Mrs. Terry, Mrs. L. B.
Leigh, Mrs. Minnie Rutherford Fuller and members of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union and the College Women's Club, almost to a
unit suffragists, were among the prominent women present. They were
deeply stirred and as the Legislature was in session they asked for a
hearing. This was granted by the Judiciary Committee and they were
courteously received, as they stated their desire.