NEW MEXICO 435 department sent out questionnaires to all of the State candidates for office in 1916 as to whether they would work for placing women on the State boards and use their influence to bring the Federal Amendment to a successful vote in the United States Senate and House. Their members were also interrogated as to whether they would work and vote for it. Therefore the Legis- lative Department of the Federated Clubs really did the work that any suffrage organization would do and had the backing of the women of the State in general. Suffrage was unani- mously endorsed in the convention of the federation at Silver City in 1914. It is to the credit of the work of the Federated Clubs in the State that its members of Congress, with one excep- tion, have needed no lobbying from suffrage forces in Wash- ington. Senator Andrieus A. Jones, as chairman of the Suf- frage Committee, made the submission of the amendment pos- sible in the present Congress by his systematic and forceful course in the last one. Mrs. Lindsey remained chairman of this department six years. In 1913 she was appointed State chairman for the National American Woman Suffrage Association by its president, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. In 1914 the suffragists had a "float" in the parade at the State fair in Albuquerque. In May, 1916, the National Association under the presidency of Mrs. Carrie Chap- man Catt, sent one of its organizers, Miss Lola Walker of Pitts- burgh, for ten days to look over the situation and she visited Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Portales and Las Vegas. In the last place she spoke before the Woman's Club with about eighty present and at the close of her talk a vote was taken which stood unanimous for suffrage. At Portales a society was formed and a large evening reception was held to which both men and women were invited. Miss Walker gave a very interesting
- ne of woman suffrage which aroused much interest. An ap
peal was sent to the National Association to return her for a fall campaign to organize the State as an auxiliary. She went to Maine, however, and Miss Gertrude Watkins of Link- Rock was sent to New Mexico in January, 1917. She visited the rn and central parN f the State organizing leagues in must of the towns. In Santa Fe one was formed of about thirty
