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266 HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE of Liberty Bonds. Its war work brought into it many new members. In the work for ratification of the Federal Amendment the League joined the other suffrage societies in the headquarters at Annapolis and in public meetings, house to house canvass, inter- views with legislators and the other work of a vigorous campaign. The officers were : Mrs. Ellicott, president ; Mrs. Edward Shoe- maker, Mrs. William Milnes Maloy and Mrs. Sidney Cone, vice- presidents; Miss Julia Rogers and Mrs. Robert Moss, corre- sponding and recording secretaries ; Mrs. Frank Ramey, treas- urer; Mrs. George Crawford and Mrs. William Silver, auditors. The officers of the Equal Suffrage League of Baltimore were Miss Caroline Roberts, president; Miss Clara T. Waite, vice- president; Mrs. William Chatard, secretary; Miss Mary Claire O'Brien, treasurer : with eight directors. 1 LEGISLATIVE ACTION. This has been described. A Rati- fication Committee of Men was formed in 1919 with N. Winslow Williams chairman, De Courcy W. Thorn vice-chair- man, Arthur K. Taylor secretary, Donald R. Hooker, treasurer. Prominent members of the Allied Building Trades Council, Carpenters' Union and other labor organizations were on the committee and every county had a chairman. In Allegany it was Francis J. Drum, president of the Maryland and D. C. Federa- tion of Labor ; in Baltimore county B. John Black, master of the State Grange. In other counties it was a member of Congress or the Legislature or a Judge or some one of influence. 1 Among these directors, active members of the city committee, chairmen of standing committees and devoted workers not elsewhere mentiond were Mesdames Edwin Rouse, Jr., chairman of the city committee; Caleb Athey, Harvey Bickel, C. C. Peffer, J. W. Putts. John Parker, A. Morris Carey. C. C. Heath; Esther Moses and Esther KaU.