Warren
Davis and Assemblyman Charles M. Egan. A hearing was held February 18
at which Mrs. Everett Colby presided and the speakers were Dr. Anna
Howard Shaw, president of the National American Suffrage Association;
U. S. Senator Shafroth of Colorado, Everett Colby, George La Monte and
Cornelius Ford, president of the State Federation of Labor. The
resolution passed the Senate by 14 ayes, 5 noes, and the Assembly by
45 ayes, 5 noes. A few weeks later it was discovered that the word
"or" appeared in the printed resolution instead of "and," making it
necessary to have a new one introduced, which went through by the same
vote.

The New Jersey law in regard to constitutional amendments provides
that after being submitted by one Legislature they must be advertised
in every county for three months prior to the next election, acted
upon favorably by the succeeding Legislature and then voted on at a
special election, the date of which it decides. After the passage of
the referendum resolution in 1913 the Legislative Committee took up
with the Secretary of State the matter of advertising and were assured
that it would be attended to and they could go home and "forget it,"
which they trustingly did. When no advertisements appeared members of
the committee hurried to Trenton and learned that Governor James F.
Fielder was responsible. His excuse was that his secretary had mislaid
the resolution and forgotten to remind him of it.

1914. The resolution was introduced in January by Senator Charles M.
Egan and Assemblyman Joseph M. Branegan, both of Hudson county. It
passed the Senate by 15 ayes, 3 noes, and the Assembly by 49 ayes, 4
noes.

1915. The advertising was properly done for this year and the
resolution came up for second passage in January, introduced by
Senator Blanchard H. White and Assemblyman Robert Peacock, both of
Burlington county. A hearing was held January 25, Mrs. Philip McKim
Garrison chairman and speakers Dr. Shaw, E. G. C. Bleakley, city
counsel of Camden; Mrs. Reynolds and Mrs. Feickert. The Senate passed
the resolution by 17 ayes, 4 noes, and the Assembly by unanimous vote.

1916. A bill for Presidential suffrage for women was introduced by
Senator Charles O'Connor Hennessy of Bergen county and was lost by a
vote of 10 noes, 3 ayes--Senators Hennessy, Austen Colgate of Essex
county and Carlton B. Pierce of Union county. No effort was made to
press the bill in the Assembly.

1917. Another bill for Presid