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ILLINOIS 153 they were especially needed during the six months' struggle. After considerable educational work the Springfield newspapers also became friendly and published suffrage editorials at oppor- tune times. The papers were refolded so that these editorials, blue penciled, came on the outside, and placed on the desks of the legislators. The bill was introduced in the House by Charles L. Scott (Dem.) and in the Senate by Hugh S. Magill (Rep.). All efforts were centered on its passage first through the Senate. After nearly three months of strenuous effort this was finally accomplished on May 7, 1913, by a vote of 29 ayes (three more than the required majority) and 15 noes. It is doubtful whether this action could have been secured without the skilful tactics of Senator Magill, but he could not have succeeded without the unfailing co-operation of Lieutenant Governor Barratt O'Hara. Among other Senators who helped were Martin B. Bailey, Albert C. Clark, Edward C. Curtis, Samuel A. Ettelson, Logan Hay and Thomas B. Stewart, Republicans ; Michael H. Cleary, William A. Compton, Kent E. Keller, Walter I. Manny and W. Duff Piercy, Democrats ; George W. Harris and Walter Clyde Jones, Progressives. The day the bill passed Mrs. Trout left Springfield to address a suffrage meeting to be held in Galesburg that evening and the next day one at Monnmuth. In each place resided a member of .ho was marked on the card index as "doubtful," but both, through the influence of their constituents, voted for the bill. Mrs. Booth remained in Springfield to see that it got . over to (lie House. The two women wished the bill to to the friendly Klections Committee and the opponents were ing to put it into the Judiciary Committee, where it would in during the rest of the ^e^ioii. The suffrage lobby worked the Mnall hours of the night making plans to frustrate this rrangenienN were made with Speaker MeKinley to turn it over to the Klections Committee, and when the morning ion opened this was done before the opponents reali/.ed heir plot had failed. The women were indebted to Mavid R. Shanahan, for many an influential Republican member, who, representing a