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MONTANA 367 ducted a vigorous fight for the amendment, sending its speakers to every locality. For many years it had worked for woman suffrage. At the election Nov. 3, 1914, the amendment received 41,302 ayes; 37,588 noes, a majority of 3,714, and women were en- franchised on equal terms with men. The various suffrage societies merged into Good Government Clubs with the avowed purpose of obtaining political action on many needed measures. The next year they secured mother's pension and equal guardianship laws, and others equally impor- tant in following years. The Executive Committee continued in existence and directed the work. At its meeting in 1916 it was decided to conduct an intensive campaign for prohibition in 1917; to elect a woman to Congress and a woman State Super- intendent of Schools. Prohibition was carried; Miss Jeannette Rankin was elected the first Congresswoman in the United States and Miss May Trumper was elected Superintendent of Schools. That year an eight-hour-day for women was secured. This record was continued. Mrs. Maggie Smith Hathaway and Mrs. Kmnia A. Ingalls have served two terms each as State Repre- sentatives. All the county superintendents of schools are women. After the Federal Amendment was submitted by Congress the societies met on June 22, 1919, and formed a State branch of the National League of Women Voters with Mrs. Edwin L. Morris chairman. RATIFICATION. Governor Samuel V. Stewart called a spe- cial session of the Legislature to meet in August, 1920, and the Federal Suffrage Amendment was ratified on the 2nd by unani- mous vote in the House and by 38 to one in the Senate Claude F. Morris of Havre, Hill county. The resolution was introduced in the House by Mrs. Ingalls.