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TEXAS 643 time with questions. The chairman was instructed to report favorably and in the Senate the real fight was on. The opposition tried every conceivable method to defer or defeat. Heckling, threats, fervid oratory had no effect on the favoring Senators. Filibustering continued all through Wednes- day and Thursday, except when the Senate recessed to listen to Governor Brough of Arkansas, who touched on the justice of suffrage for women in an effective manner. Finally their swan song was due and came from Senator W. A. Johnston of [ouston, intimate friend of ex-Senator Bailey. Senator Paul 'age of Bastrop ably led the fight in behalf of the resolution. On June 27, at 7 p. m., it passed to third reading by a vote of 1 8 to 9, with one pair and one absentee. That night the opposi- tion tried to get enough Senators out of town to break the quorum but the friendly members and the women "shadowed" the passengers on all out-going trains. On June 28 by a viva voce vote the Senate went on record as the ninth State to ratify the Federal Suffrage Amendment, the actual strength being 19 to 10, with one absent. Lieutenant Governor W. A. Johnson proved his friendship and loyalty to the cause of woman suffrage by remaining in the chair constantly during the four days' contest. With the women of Texas soon to be fully enfranchised the State Equal Suffrage Association in October, 1919, merged into the State League of Women Voters, with Mrs. Jessie Daniel Ames chairman. 1 I LAWS. An excellent digest of the laws for women and children accompanied this chapter, showing considerable advance since a resume was given in Volume IV of the History of Woman Suffrage. The writer of the present chapter insists that they never rere so unjust as there represented. The omission of the laws imin this, as from the other State chapters for lack of space is a . the I list* >ry.] 1 The following women besides those mentioned have hrld office in the association 1900: Mesdames Tex Armstrong, Anna B. Cade, A. O. Critchett, John Davis, r I.. Fordtran. Mary Hcrndon Gra i Jones, Lindlcy Miller Keasbry. flviiiKt-.n McCallum, Sterling M ixabeth HfrnI..n. Dwixht Edward I'-ttrr, Klla Pomeroy, E. B. Reppert, I. r'alkrr. Robert Aeneas Watt; Misses Mary Fowler Borneneld. Irelene DeWitt, Marin Fenwick, Kate Hunter, A. A. Stuart. Hettie D. M. Wallis.