ed for it but probably would not vote for
national suffrage, and sent the list to our respective State
chairmen, urging that they call these Representatives' attention
to this inconsistency. It has been reported to me that this
argument proved effective with several of them and it is a fact
that after the suffrage vote was taken a number of the names on
our first list had to be removed because those men had voted
"aye" on suffrage. Seventy-two, however, in the final count,
voted _for_ the National Prohibition Amendment but _against_
ours....

In June I devised a special congressional district campaign which
would reach the members of Congress before they left their homes
to go to Washington. This was intended to impress them with the
strength of the suffrage sentiment in their districts and thus
deprive them of a favorite excuse for not voting for our
amendment. The plan called for congressional district meetings
all over the country on or about November 16 in every district
where the Representative was not already pledged to the Federal
Amendment. The call was sent to every congressional district
chairman and it requested that every local suffrage league send
as many delegates as possible to the meeting which would be held
in the city where the Senator or Representative lived. It was
urged that they be invited to attend the meetings and to speak
and that resolutions be adopted asking them to vote for the
amendment. It was a part of the plan to send these resolutions
also to the State Central Committees of the Republican and
Democratic parties, asking for suffrage planks on the State and
national platforms.... We received most cordial and widespread
cooperation in this work. I believe we can say that practically
every Senator and Representative returned to Washington this
session with the knowledge that behind him at home is an
organized demand for his favorable vote on the Federal Amendment.

The usual pleasant social features of these conventions had been
eliminated and the only relaxation for the delegates was one large
evening reception in the New Willard Hotel. The National College Equal
Suffrage League held its annual luncheon on the 18th at the New Ebbitt
Hotel, Dr. M. Carey Thomas, president of Bryn Mawr College, presiding.
The guests were 225 women graduate