ompton; Andrew Winsor, Providence--48.

IN THE SENATE. _For the Amendment._--Lieut.-Gov. Howard, E.
Providence; Ariel Ballou, Woonsocket; Cyrus F. Cooke, Foster;
Edward T. DeBlois, Portsmouth; Rodney F. Dyer, Johnston; Anson
Greene, Exeter; Daniel W. Lyman, No. Providence; Jabez W. Mowry,
Smithfield; Dexter B. Potter, Coventry; Stafford W. Razee,
Cumberland; T. Mumford Seabury, Newport; Lewis B. Smith,
Barrington; John F. Tobey, Providence--13.

[177] [Signed:] _President_, Elizabeth B. Chace; _Secretaries_,
Fanny P. Palmer, Elizabeth C. Hinckley; _Treasurer_, Susan B. P.
Martin; _Executive Committee_, Sarah E. H. Doyle, Susan Sisson,
William Barker, Francis C. Frost, Anna E. Aldrich, Frederick A.
Hinckley, Susan G. Kenyon, Rachael E. Fry, A. A. Tyng, Arnold B.
Chace.

[178] The speakers were Abraham Payne, John Wyman, Matilda Hindman,
Frederick A. Hinckley, Rev. Mr. Wendt, Elizabeth B. Chace, William
I. Bowditch, Mary F. Eastman, William Lloyd Garrison, jr., Lucy
Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Henry B. Blackwell.

CHAPTER XXXIV.

MAINE.

Women on School Committees--Elvira C. Thorndyke--Suffrage
Society, 1868--Rockland--The Snow Sisters--Portland Meeting,
1870--John Neal--Judge Goddard--Colby University Open to Girls,
August 12, 1871--Mrs. Clara Hapgood Nash Admitted to the Bar,
October 26, 1872--Tax-payers Protest--Ann F. Greeley,
1872--March, 1872, Bill for Woman Suffrage Lost in the House,
Passed in the Senate by Seven Votes--Miss Frank Charles, Register
of Deeds--Judge Reddington--Mr. Randall's Motion--Moral Eminence
of Maine--Convention in Granite Hall, Augusta, January, 1873,
Hon. Joshua Nye, President--Delia A. Curtis--Opinions of the
Supreme Court in Regard to Women Holding Offices--Governor
Dingley's Message, 1875--Convention, Representatives Hall,
Portland, Judge Kingsbury, President, February 12, 1876.

The first movement in Maine, in 1868, turned on the question of
women being eligible on school committees. Here, as in Vermont, the
men inaugurated the movement. The following letter, from the
_Portland Press_, gives the initiative steps:

HIRAM, March 15, 1868.

MR. EDITOR: A statement is going the rounds of the press that the
Democrats of Hiram supported a lady for a member of the school
committee. I am unwilling that any person or party shall be
ridi