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LOUISIANA 223 Manion and a quiet committee hearing held, with representatives from the State Suffrage Association and the Woman Suffrage Party. It received 60 ayes, 41 noes in the House, but not the necessary two-thirds. Amending Article 210 had become a city administration measure and was slated for success. A donation towards a Tuberculosis Hospital in New Orleans had been made by Mrs. John Dibert and the gift was municipalized by a -con- dition which required a certain annual revenue from the city. She desired to be a member of the hospital board, but was ineli- gible under this article. The Era Club gave notice that it would challenge her eligibility and she supported its position. The long desired amendment was on the way to a successful passage, but went on the rocks because of the club's campaign against a financial measure for refunding the city debt known as the Nine Million Bond issue, in which the provisions for the public schools and the teachers' pay were totally inadequate and it was to be in effect for fifty years! The Era Club and the Mothers' Co-opera- tive Club protested and worked against this political-financial alliance. In retaliation twenty-four hours before the election the order went to the voters to defeat the amendment to Article 210, which would have made women eligible to serve on school and charity boards, and they did so. 1918. Governor Rufrm G. Pleasant recommended in his mes- sage the submission of a woman suffrage amendment to the State o institution. The State association had a resolution for it intro- duced in the House by Frank Powell; the Woman Suffrage Party one in the Senate by Leon Haas, and it passed in both. CAMPAIGNS. There- have been two campaigns in the interest of woman suffrage in Louisiana, one for preparing for an ex- d constitutional convention which would have met in mi 5. and the other in ioiS to amend the State constitution by striking out the w.rd "male." A special session of the Legislature in 1015 proposal a convention to revise the constitution and sub- mitted the question to the voters. Immediately Miss Jean Ion, president of the State Suffrage' Association, accompanied Lilly Richardson and Mrs. Ida I'orter Royer, visited the various parishes and formed working committees in .40 of the h^. The enthusiatic reception wherever they went was prac-