lway,
and Mrs. Young, president of the State Anti-Suffrage Association,
arrived immediately and began lobbying, Judge Young even appearing on
the floor of the Senate chamber.[138] The German vote was promised to
ambitious politicians and a desired change of the county seat was
offered. The Senate not having the necessary two-thirds to kill the
resolution refused by a majority vote to take action upon it. It
should then have gone automatically back to the House but the
president of the Senate, Lieutenant Governor Fraine, withheld it until
the Legislature adjourned. The chief opponents during these years were
the old Republican "stand-patters," who controlled the political
"machine," and Judge Young was one of the most prominent. Success came
with its overthrow.

1917. The Legislative Committee consisted of Mrs. Clendening and Mrs.
Weible. On January 14 Senator Oscar Lindstrom introduced a
Presidential and Municipal suffrage bill, written by Senator Pollock
at Mrs. Anderson's request. It was modelled on the Illinois bill and
beginning with July 1 it entitled women to vote for Presidential
electors, county surveyors and constables and for all officers of
cities, villages and towns excepting police magistrates and city
justices of the peace. A concurrent resolution providing for an
amendment to the State constitution to give full suffrage to women was
also introduced. Both were passed on January 16 by the same vote, 37
ayes, 11 noes in the Senate; 89 ayes, 19 noes in the House, and were
the first measures signed by Governor Lynn J. Frazier, on the 23rd.

This Legislature and also the one of 1919 adopted a resolution calling
upon Congress to submit the Federal Woman Suffrage Amendment. Four of
the five North Dakota members were then in favor of it and in 1918 the
hesitating Senator made the delegation unanimous.

The State Referendum Association and the Anti-Suffrage Association
made an attempt to secure a petition for a referendum to the voters of
the Presidential and Municipal suffrage bill, but although less than
11,000 names were required only a few thousand were filed with the
Secretary of State and there was considerable difficulty in securing
those. Affidavits were sent to the Suffrage Association proving that
many names were obtained by fraud.

1919. The Legislature passed the concurrent resolution providing for
an amendment to the constitution giving women full suffrage, which had
gone through that of 1917. The