ame the test as to how well this
had been done. The Rules Committee of the House reported the
Mondell amendment, which was to come to a vote January 12. I
wrote or telegraphed at once to every congressional chairman or
State president asking her to bring to bear all possible pressure
upon the individual members of Congress from her State. Those
States which had established this machinery were able at once to
send the call to the respective district chairmen and so on down
the line; the other States responded through their existing
machinery and the result was that thousands of letters and
telegrams poured into the offices of the Congressmen during the
four weeks. Meantime our lobby was busy interviewing the members
and the latest expressions obtained in each case were wired back
to the States, whose chairmen responded again.

This interchange and cooperation were so effective that
Congressmen themselves complimented our "team work." But the real
proof of its value came after the vote was taken, when by
checking with our office records of the individual Congressmen we
found that many uncertain, noncommittal or almost unfriendly
members' attitude had so changed that they voted yes on the
amendment. Such a result could not fail to show, if proof had
been necessary, that the greatest need as well as the greatest
opportunity in national suffrage work for the future lay in
furthering to the last degree of completeness and efficiency the
organization of every State by congressional districts....

At a distance from Washington it is difficult to know and easy to
lose sight of what a Representative does or stands for, so I
prepared special reports to the State congressional chairmen
whenever opportunity occurred. The first, and a most interesting
one, came when the vote was taken in the House on the National
Prohibition Amendment Dec. 22, 1914. This was just three weeks
before the vote on our own amendment and our catalogue showed a
large number of Congressmen who opposed us on the ground of
State's rights. The National Prohibition Amendment is obviously
as direct an assumption by the Federal Government of rights now
reposing in the States as could possibly be devised. I,
therefore, checked off the names of the State's rights
Congressmen who vot