Miller and Mrs. McMahon to Alabama, where a
splendid campaign for ratification was directed by Mrs. Pattie
Ruffner Jacobs, State suffrage president.

Not only were the promised copies of Senator Pollock's speech
sent but an additional 10,000 pieces of literature were given to
Maryland, North Carolina and Delaware; 5,000 to Virginia, South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida; 36,000 to West Virginia and 51,000
to Mississippi. In place of the suffrage schools a series of
conferences was agreed to by the southern States. Three speakers
were selected with great care and an outline for the trip was
submitted to the States. Some responded that they could not
arrange satisfactory conferences, others that they could not make
dates to fit the itinerary, two did not reply in time and two
did not respond at all. Since speakers could not be sent at such
great cost for small, unsatisfactory meetings or on an incomplete
itinerary, we were reluctantly forced to cancel the conferences.
With regard to the work which the southern States agreed to do,
only one State met the provision to provide a worker of its own
under the direction of the national organizer to take charge
after her departure. None of the States established a speakers'
bureau. Three States started the petition campaign but none
finished it.

FEDERAL AMENDMENT. We were confident of victory for the amendment
in 1919 in the 66th Congress. The House passed it May 21 by an
affirmative vote of 304, a majority of 42 votes, and June 4 the
Senate by a vote of 56 to 25. The passage of this amendment
introduced in Congress over forty years ago by the National
Suffrage Association closed a long and interesting chapter of the
movement. The completion of that part of our work made it no
longer necessary for us to maintain a Washington headquarters.
Accordingly June 30, 1919, the doors of the Suffrage House, 1626
Rhode Island Avenue, were closed after having received cabinet
members, senators, congressmen, distinguished persons from this
and foreign countries, thousands of American men and women and
those active suffragists who were called to Washington from time
to time to assist in the work of the congressional committee.
Mrs. Maud Wood Park, to whose indefatigable energy, honesty of
purpose and action and