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The Federal Suffrage Association

to prepare and submit a bill asking for the passage of the Anthony Amendment. This was done, and Dr. Clara MacNaughton interested Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, who, at the opening of the extra session of Congress presented Joint Resolution No. 1, providing for the amendment of the constitution prohibiting the states from disfranchising citizens on account of sex. This was the beginning of the renewed activity in behalf of the Anthony amendment which has been so vigorously and so successfully carried forward by the Congressional Union, and the Woman's Party.

Besides Congressional work the Association has contributed not a little to the state campaigns in which Woman's Suffrage has been submitted to the voters. Money has been raised and speakers have been sent to several states. Mrs. Colby represented the Association in campaigns in Kansas, Michigan and Wisconsin in 1912, and in New Jersey in 1915.

The Federal Suffrage Association held a Congress at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, July 11th, 12th and 13th, 1915. This was said by some good judges to be "the best of the many congresses held at that time." Among the distinguished people who took part were, Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, Mrs. Bellamy, former member of the Legis