The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-07-27
ELIZABETH GRANNTS
A LOBBYIST AT n

- Icy anu q 14ibp WIG LiSiiA' Co.
To accomplish certain things that she
e felt necessary Mrs. Grannis saw that legis-
/ lation was ind spensable. The result OF
an experience with a lad she had tried to
4 help and set upon the road to good citi-
zenship led her to have drawn a bill tn
restrict the use of tobacco in prisons
among minors. This bin she mot1ered 4:
years ago, and it became a law through
her own individual efforts, unaided. ex-
cept b. The lawyer vino drew it. Years
before that Mrs. Grannis and other pub
iic-spirited citizens had become interested
IN the conditions that obtained in the city
police stations in regard to women pris.
oherS. In those days they were given
sleeping accommodations n the station
houses, The quarters We're crude, crowd
cd, and usually ringing with loud and
worse than vulgar talk, The women. a
rough and degraded lot for the most part,
became lower Still through the influence OF
these conditions, and il became evident to
MRS. GranniS that to have matrons In
charge of these female prisoners would
help matters. Others thought as she did
hLiaeh van Rensselaer, being prominent
among lens they Joined hands in an
endeaNor to have the conditions ameIio-
rated through the passage of the Police
Matron bill. 1t met with opposition from
doormen, p~atrohnen and other minor Of
Meals OF the police department., who fore
saw a possible curtailment OF their
authority and perquis.tes. The bill was
lhaliy passed as a ''pernlisSive'' measure
that it is, women We're thereafter permit
TED TO serve as matrons in charge OF
female prisoners in tho nolice stations
1t took lust three Years noora of bana
lighting and inn1merable .qobbvina"
trips to Albany to get the hin made n,.n.
oatofN. as 1t exists today, Mrs. Grannis
ana nNe male men" worked for six
years before this bill became law.
There are other la WIS to the credit 90
this small lady of tbe iron r,iI ~ ~
engineerine of which sbn 10. ~ 80
and nights in the senate and bo,,sa Of A.
bany, to say nothing of thousands of dol
lars, every cent of which she h,. earnaa
herself, She tens Of tho NC, .+roi, -
waiting about n the rorrtdors ba,,. -
hour for word thar har mo srra zoe ~
ing acted upou. Eyer,, +i,no. n,oanl,aS,,
left the room her bear+ canl, r,;+h ~.
fear that i'm even HE ,on,antaa o
her hin Womb 1a - aosehee
cast aside for lac,- oS 49,
vote. Each time a ,,ar,hn.
legislation cbarrbar sha t.a.,h1as -. L
be the Influence that rro,,t5 IN, tha
ure. The thriIl of ,ioton. ~ -, ' in-is
lator at last sent a noassaea .ya,r Fin
has eone tbro,,ah uas saa ioui DIN
49,. - Vi "ilhout amehofnent,'
$40 feol ;, 81
made a Law &c i,daa, -" naNo
ration of real acooa ~ 80 Az eAnia-
fact that q ,r,,,sn nd Aro sho
done it. solely 1hrourb otpare ur+lo,.
direct voice or vote in ~ ntat-ar nh ~
M 800 o'e 'He hlallef-shoulo
tha ,frraaist -, It atmohs peth
For manS an we anus.
Crannis war, - a. eacn eiectoh, Mrs.
nlaces and nod aa..S ~ the poinhg
"' tiiaue pefIulctofy application
:, Iie was, OF course, as reg
her, miro naIi 49, o,teia.s sot 70 know
snect n,Iy-anh y s-sht. ereatea her re
renrasentati n va e4lTseu the Joke. 10 the
also f. f.,niiia. - 80 ~ STATE cap''ol she IS
and featbars her rSh inn, w,In her chlffons
and her Quiet adaIonntina no loves
~ sne IS not a Joke up there, and she
Fourteen vears NJ
ago MIS- Grannis.