nt Germans
greatly to the disadvantage of their fellow-townsman.

[471] The officers elected were: _President_, Ada M. Bittenbender;
_Vice-President_, Clara Bewick Colby; _Secretary_, Belle G.
Bigelow; _Corresponding Secretary_, Gertrude M. McDowell;
_Treasurer_, Lucinda Russell; _Executive Committee_, Harriet S.
Brooks, E. M. Correll, Susie Noble Fifield, George B. Skinner, Rev.
John McNamara, Jennie F. Holmes; _Vice-Presidents of Judicial
Districts_--First, Barbara J. Thompson; second, Dr. Ruth M. Wood;
third, Orpha Clement Dinsmoor; fourth, Ada Van Pelt; fifth, Mrs. H.
S. Sydenham.

[472] Most of the speakers spent several weeks in the State. Mrs.
Helen M. Gougar, Mrs. May Wright Sewall, Mrs. Saxon, Mrs. Blake,
Mrs. Harbert, Mrs. Shattuck, Mrs. Neyman, Miss Anthony, Miss
Couzins and Miss Hindman were the principal National speakers, and
their ability and zeal aroused the whole State. Mrs. Colby was
indefatigable in her exertions from the moment the amendment was
submitted to the end of the canvass. Mrs. Colby and Miss Rachel
Foster organized the whole campaign throughout the State, and kept
all the speakers in motion.--[S. B. A.

[473] For further details of the closing scenes, see Vol. III. page
241.

[474] _Yeas_--Brown (Clay), Brown (Colfax), Butler, Canfield,
Conklin, Dolan, Dunphy, Harrison, Heist, McShane, Norris,
Patterson, Rogers, Sang, Schoenheit, Sowers, Thatch and Walker--18.
Senator Butler voted with these for the purpose of being able to
move a reconsideration. _Nays_--Bomgardner, Brown (Douglas),
Conner, Dye, Filley and Reynolds--6. _Absent_--Barker, Brown
(Lancaster), Case, Dech, Fisher, Harris, Kinkaid and Rich.

CHAPTER L.

KANSAS.

Effect of the Popular Vote on Woman Suffrage--Anna C.
Wait--Hannah Wilson--Miss Kate Stephens, Professor of Greek in
State University--Lincoln Centre Society, 1879--The Press--The
Lincoln _Beacon_--Election, 1880--Sarah A. Brown, Democratic
Candidate--Fourth of July Celebration--Women Voting on the School
Question--State Society, 1884--Helen M. Gougar--Clara Bewick
Colby--Bertha H. Ellsworth--Radical Reform Association--Mrs. A.
G. Lord--Prudence Crandall--Clarina Howard Nichols--Laws--Women
in the Professions--Schools--Political Parties--Petitions to the
Legislature--Col. F. G. Adams' Letter.

We closed the chapter on Kansas in Vol. II. with the submission and
defeat of the woman suffrage amendment, le