Page:History of Woman Suffrage Volume 6.djvu/575

 PENNSYLVANIA 559 Pennsylvania contributed $20,573 to tne Women's Oversea Hospi- tals, maintained by the National Suffrage Association, $11,397 f which were raised in Pittsburgh at an outdoor fete of which Mrs. Leonard G. Wood was chairman. The State convention was held in this city November 2022 and Mrs. Miller was elected president. In the hope that the U. S. Senate would submit the Federal Suffrage Amendment the convention for 1918 was delayed from month to month and finally was held in Philadelphia April 9, 10, 1919. Mrs. Miller was re-elected. On November 10, n, the amendment having been submitted, the 5ist and last State conven- tion was held in Philadelphia. 1 The historic Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association was disbanded and the League of Women Citizens was organized, to become the League of Women Voters when the women of Pennsylvania were enfranchised. This name was adopted Nov. 18, 1920, and Mrs. Miller was elected chairman for two years. LEGISLATIVE ACTION. After a lapse of 26 years a second attempt was made in 1911 under Mrs. Anna M. Orme, as legislative chairman, to secure a resolution to refer to the voters a woman suffrage amendment to the State constitution. The Joint Committee of the Judiciary, to which it was referred, after giving a hearing to the suffragists, sent it to a special commission which had been appointed to revise the election laws. 1912. Miss Lida Stokes Adams was legislative chairman when this commission gave an all day hearing March 22 at City 1 1 all, Philadelphia, but took no action. This hearing was preceded by a mass meeting on the 2Oth in Witherspoon Hall. An effort was made to get an endorsement from the State political conven- 1 Several of the presidents of the association were at first vice-presidents; others were Mrs. Mary B. Luckie. Mrs. Anna M. Ormc, Mrs. William I. Hull. Dr. Ruth A. Deeter, Miss Lila Stokes Adams. Miss I'.akcwell. Mrs. Maxwell K. Chapman, Mrs. t Beach, Mrs. H. Nccly 1 s Maud Bassett Gotham, Dr. M. Carey ..H, Mrs. Lewis L. Smith. Mrs. Kdward E. Kirr Hays, Mrs. Robert K. Young, Mr*. Robert Mills Beach, Miss Martha G. Thomas; r, : Mrs. 1 - Mary I". Kenderdine, Mrs, Minora F. Phillis, Miss N. M. Crumpton, Mrs. Reba Artsdalen, Mrs. Robert Coard, Miss Ellen L. Thomas, Mrs. H. Wilfred DuPuy; director*: Mrs. Edward E. Kieman, Miss Henrietta Baldy Mrm. Emma H. McCandlesa, Mrs. E. S. H. McCauley, Mrs. Richard S. Quiglcy, Mrs. George A. 1'iersol. Mrs. Clifton A. Yerner, Mrs. Daniel F. Ancona.