6 Rhode Island Avenue, just off of Scott
Circle [see page 632]. This was occupied by the committee, national
officers, the lobbyists and other workers until July, 1919, when the
amendment had been submitted by Congress.

The first headquarters in a business building in 1895 had been rented
for $15 a month; the last year's rent for the headquarters in New York
and Washington was $17,500.

BEQUEST OF MRS. FRANK LESLIE.

Mrs. Frank Leslie, long at the head of the Leslie publications in New
York City, died Sept. 18, 1914, leaving a will which made the
following provisions:

All the rest, residue and remainder of my estate, whatsoever and
wheresoever situate, whereof I may be seized or possessed, or to
which I may be in any manner entitled at the time of my death,
including the amount of any legacies hereinbefore given which may
for any reason lapse or fail, I do give, devise and bequeath unto
my friend, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt of the city of New York. It
is my expectation and wish that she turn all of my said residuary
estate into cash, and apply the whole thereof as she shall think
most advisable to the furtherance of the cause of Women's
Suffrage, to which she has so worthily devoted so many years of
her life, and that she shall make suitable provision, so that in
case of her death any balance thereof remaining unexpended may be
applied and expended in the same way; but this expression of my
wish and expectation is not to be taken as creating any trust or
as limiting or affecting the character of the gift to her, which
I intend to be absolute and unrestricted.

Mrs. Leslie had previously made two wills of a similar character. The
estate was appraised at $1,800,000 in stocks, bonds and real estate.
There was an immense inheritance tax to be paid and harassing
litigation was at once begun and continued. It was not until the
winter of 1917 that the executors commenced a distribution of the
funds. Mrs. Catt incorporated the Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission,
which has received and expended all monies realized from the estate.
They were a large factor in the legitimate expenditures for obtaining
the submission of the Federal Suffrage Amendment from Congress and its
ratification by 36 State Legislatures. They were also of great
assistance in the campaigns of the last years to secure the amendments
of State constitutions, which required organ