on, to the vastly increasing demands for these, which
could not be entirely met, and to the pressing need for a properly
equipped research bureau. The report of Miss Jeannette Rankin (Mont.),
field secretary, told of a year of unremitting work under four heads:
legislative, visiting of States, work with the Congressional Committee
and special work in campaign States. Delaware, Florida, Tennessee,
Alabama, Missouri, Nebraska and South Dakota were visited. She
travelled by automobile from Montana to Washington City with petitions
for the Federal Amendment, stopping at thirty-three places for
meetings, and two weeks were given to interviewing Senators. Among the
campaign States three weeks were spent in Saginaw, Michigan;
organizing the city into wards and precincts; five in North Dakota and
the rest of the time in Montana, organizing, arranging work at State
and county fairs, visiting State Central Committees and State
Federations of Women's Clubs.

Among the recommendations presented from the board and adopted were
two of prime importance: 1. That in order that the convention may give
its support to the Federal Amendment before Congress, it shall
instruct the affiliated organizations to carry on as active a campaign
as possible in their respective States and to see that all candidates
for Congress be pledged to woman suffrage before the next election. 2.
That the convention endorse the Suffrage School as a method of work
and the National Association offer to organize and send out a
traveling school when requested by six or more States, provided they
agree to share the expense. To the Official Board was referred the
question of appointing a committee to devise and put into operation a
scheme for establishing more definite connection between the
enfranchised women of the States and the National Association.

After all the years of patient effort to persuade Legislatures to
grant Presidential suffrage to women under the inspiration of Henry B.
Blackwell, chairman of the committee, his successor, Miss Elizabeth
Upham Yates, could announce the first success and she emphasized the
important bearing which this and others would have on securing a
Federal Amendment. Her report said:

The extraordinary victory in Illinois has emphasized the fact,
not duly apprehended hitherto, that State Legislatures have power
to grant Presidential suffrage to women. No man derives his right
to vote for presidential elector