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MARYLAND 257 who voted no. The lobbyists were Mrs. Hooker, Mrs. Dora Ogle, Mrs. Robert Moss, Miss Lucy Branham, Miss Maddox, Miss ( Iwendolyn Willis, the Rev. Olympia Brown, Mrs. Charles E. Kllicott, Mrs. Ross Thompson, Miss Emma Weber, Mrs. William II. Maloy, Mrs. Calvin Gabriel, Mrs. Timanus, Mrs. Howard Schwartz, Mrs. Funck. This was the last time a State amend- ment was asked for. 1917. At the special session a bill for Presidential suffrage, supported by the State association and the Just Government uc, passed the Senate by a vote of 18 ayes, 6 noes, after a joint hearing held in the State House, where the outside speakers, were Dudley Field Malone, U. S. Senator Shafroth and Repre- sentative Jeannette Rankin. In the House it failed by a vote of 41 ayes, 56 noes. 1918. The Presidential suffrage bill received in the House 42 ayes, 53 noes; in the Senate 12 ayes, 13 noes. RATIFICATION. For twenty-five years the women of Maryland tried to get some form of suffrage from their Legislature with- out success and it is not surprising that they felt obliged to look to a Federal Amendment for their enfranchisement. The dele- gation in Congress was divided on its submission, Senator Joseph I. K ranee (Republican) voting in favor and Senator John Walter Smith (Democrat) in opposition; two Representatives in r and five in opposition. After it had been sent to the Legis- latures for ratification in June, 1919, pressure was brought to m ( iovernor Kmerson C. Harrington to call a special session, was reported that a majority in favor might be secured. U. S. Attorney ( ieneral A. Mitchell Palmer urged it in a letter July ID. saying: "Pennsylvania has already ratified and it will be a to our party if a Democratic State like Maryland will promptly follow suit." The Governor advised waiting till the n-gif his Legislature was not elected with the question of this amendment hefore the people." The regular session convened Jan 7, KJJO, and Albert Cabcll Ritchie had l>een elected Governor. Mrs. William Milnes Maloy ' hairman of the Suffrage Campaign Committee and Mrs. Robert Muss of the legislative w<>rk in Annapolis, and the com- mittee was composed of prominent suffragists from all the