convention in New Haven the League of Women Voters came into existence with Miss Mabel C. Washburn chairman.[1]
Legislative Action. The Connecticut Legislature has only a melancholy record of defeats, having given the women nothing except a vote for school trustees and on some school questions in 1893.
1901. A bill for Municipal suffrage was adversely reported from committee and defeated.
1903. The same bill was defeated in the House on roll call by 105 noes, 40 ayes; in the Senate without roll call.
1905. The same measure had a favorable report from the Joint Woman Suffrage Committee but it was not accepted by House or Senate.
1907. In addition to the Municipal suffrage bill the association presented one for Presidential suffrage. The Senate rejected both without a roll call; House vote on Municipal suffrage, noes, 86; ayes, 56; on Presidential, noes 93; ayes, 55.
1909. For the usual bill the Legislature substituted one giving women a vote on levying a tax for maintaining a public library, which passed the Senate without roll call and the House by 82 ayes, 50 noes. It never was put into operation.
1911. The two usual bills received unanimous favorable reports from committees. The Municipal passed the Senate but was defeated in the House, both without roll call. A resolution to submit an amendment was defeated in the House, not voted on in the Senate.
1913. State constitutional amendment defeated in the Senate by 20 noes, 9 ayes, and in the House without roll call.
1915. The above action was repeated except that both Houses defeated without a roll call.
- ↑ The officers of the State Association from 1901 to 1920, besides the presidents, not already mentioned, were as follows: Vice-presidents, Mrs. Annie C. S. Fenner, 1906-1910; corresponding and recording secretaries, Mrs. Ella B. Kendrick, Mrs. Marcia West, Mrs. Jessie Adler, Mrs. Annie G. Porritt, Miss Mabel C. Washburn, Mrs. Frederick C. Spencer, Mrs. Hiram P. Maxim, Mrs. William H. Deming, Mrs. Samuel T. Davis, Jr., Mrs. S. H. Benton, Mrs. William C. Cheney.
Among those who served in other official capacities were Mesdames E, J. Warren, Cynthia B. Fuller, Henrietta J. Pinches, A. Barton Hepburn, Julius Maltby, H. H. De Loss, Carlos F. Stoddard, Henry Townshend, Jonathan A, Rawson, T. S. McDermott, Ruth McIntire Dadourian; Misees Emily Whitney, Mary A. Goodman, Mary Bulkley, Frances Osborn.
The names of the many women who gave devoted service to this cause during this score of years can never be recorded.
