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 686 HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE freedom wisely and well. I thank you in the name of the children who will come after us ; they will have a better, broader and nobler heritage than was ours. And I personally thank you from the depths of my heart. God bless you every one! Twelve minutes after the resolution reached the Senate it had been passed by another unanimous vote. During the proceed- ings Mrs. Homer M. Hill sat beside President Carlyon and was invited to address the members. Described as "a tiny figure whose white hair was scarcely on a level with the top of the Speaker's desk," she expressed the emotions of the older suffra- gists as they witnessed the adoption of the resolution. She thanked them in the name also of the W. C. T. U., and thanked the leaders in the cause of labor and of many other organiza- tions, as well as the leaders of both parties. "Washington has led the victorious crusade for the Pacific Coast States," she said. "May we always appreciate what it means to live in a State whose men themselves gave this right to women!" [LAWS. A complete digest of the laws relating especially to the interests of women and children and to moral questions en- acted during the first decade of the present century was prepared for this chapter by Judge Reah M. Whitehead of Seattle. This was supplemented by an abstract of fifty-eight statutes of a sim- ilar nature enacted during the last decade, prepared by attorneys Adella M. Parker of Seattle and Bernice A. Sapp of Olympia. They largely cover the field of modern liberal legislation but can not be given because of the decision to omit the laws in all the State chapters for lack of space. The results on questions re- lated to prohibition submitted to the electors, with women voting, are significant: Statute for State-wide prohibition submitted in 1914: ayes, 189,840; noes, 171,208; statute submitted in 1916 permitting hotels to sell liquor: ayes, 48,354; noes, 262,390; statute authorizing manufacture, sale and export of 4 per cent, beer : ayes, 98,843 ; noes, 245,399.]