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NEVADA 391 pices of the National Association, to consult the Governors on the question of special sessions for the ratification of the Fed- eral Amendment, which had been submitted in June. Mrs. Pat- rick and Mrs. Bel ford accompanied them to Carson City and had an interview with Governor Emmet D. Boyle. In September the committee considered the offer of a conference of officers and chairmen of the National League of Women Voters to be held in Reno. It was arranged for November 2021, with Mrs. Mc- Kenzie chairman of program, Mrs. Walser of finance, Mrs. Hurst of halls and Mrs. Belford of publicity. The conference met in the Century Club House. Mrs Catt, Miss Jessie R. Haver, Dr. Valeria H. Parker, Mrs. Jean Nelson Penfield and Miss Marjorie Shuler, national chairman of publicity, were the guests of honor. A luncheon at the Riverside Hotel was attended by about 70 men and women. An evening meeting was held in the Rialto Theater with Mrs. Patrick pre- siding. Governor Boyle introduced Mrs. Catt, who gave a rous- ing speech, Wake up America, and the others were heard at this and other times on the various departments of the league's work. At the last session a State League of Women Voters was organized and later Mrs. Belford was elected chairman. RATIFICATION. Governor Boyle issued a call for the Legis- lature to meet in special session Feb. 7, 1920, for the express purpose of acting on the Federal Amendment, and in his Mrs when it convened he said: "While no certainty exists that the favorable action of Nevada will in 1920 assure to the women of the United States the same voting privileges which our own women enjoy by virtue of our State law, it does appear certain that without our favorable action national suffrage may be de- 1 for such a time as to withhold the right to vote in a presi- dential election from millions of the women of America." To Mrs. Hurst, the one woman member, was given the honor of ir.troducing the resolution to ratify in the House. On her "ii the rules were suspended, the resolution was read the '1 time by title and referred to the Committee on Federal of ten minutes was taken and when the inbly reconvened a from the Senate was received g that the resolution had passed unanimously. The House