uffrage bill was introduced and its president, Mrs. Elizabeth Preston
Anderson, attended each session. Although working separately, Mrs.
Anderson and the suffrage legislative committees were always in
perfect harmony. In 1911 the Union had a resolution introduced to
submit a woman suffrage amendment to the State constitution. Mrs.
Darrow and Mrs. de Lendrecie of the State Suffrage League lobbied for
it. It was lost in the Senate by 23 to 25 votes; referred to the
Committee on Woman Suffrage in the House, which recommended indefinite
postponement and the report was accepted by 54 ayes, 42 noes.

1913. The Legislative Committee consisted of Mrs. Darrow, Mrs. Fannie
D. Quain, Mrs. Ella C. Boise and Miss Ward. Two suffrage measures
drawn up by Senator R. M. Pollock passed both Houses. The resolution
for an amendment to the State constitution, which would have to pass
two consecutive Legislatures before submission to the voters, received
in the Senate 31 ayes, 19 noes; in the House 79 ayes, 29 noes; 5
absent. A legislative bill, which would go to the voters at the next
election, received in the Senate, 27 ayes, 22 noes; 1 absent; in the
House, 104 ayes; 1 no. Another bill introduced at this same session,
providing that the question be submitted to a vote of the women, was
passed in the Senate by 41 to 9 and indefinitely postponed in the
House.

1915. Legislative Committee Mrs. Darrow, Mrs. Quain and Mrs. Weible.
It is a significant fact that of the nearly 800 bills introduced every
one had honest treatment, passed or failed to pass on roll call or was
indefinitely postponed by vote, except the one which vitally affected
the women. The concurrent resolution for a woman suffrage amendment,
which had passed the Legislature of 1913 and had to be ratified by
that of 1915, was passed in the Senate on February 13 by 31 ayes, 15
noes, more than two to one, and the so-called "clincher" applied to it
which prevented its reconsideration by less than a two-thirds vote.
The House had appeared more favorable than the Senate and it seemed
certain that it would pass that body. On February 18, five days after
the measure had passed the Senate, Senator Jacobson moved that it be
recalled from the House, where it had had its first and second
readings and been referred to the Committee on Elections. This motion
was carried by 26 to 22. The opponents at once gathered their forces.
Judge N. C. Young of Fargo, attorney for the Northern Pacific Rai