wo-thirds of the credit
for working up the case belonged to his wife, Mrs. Anna Christy Fall.

1903. The bill for taxpayers' Municipal suffrage was defeated February
5 without a roll call; the association's petition for a constitutional
amendment by 99 to 87.

1904. Governor John L. Bates recommended woman suffrage in his
Message. The association asked for Municipal suffrage for women having
the same qualifications required of men. The bill was debated in the
House on February 16 and defeated without a roll call. The bill to let
women vote on nominations for school trustees was defeated by 62 to
30.

1905. The association's petition for a constitutional amendment was
rejected without a division and without even discussion. Petitions
were rejected for License suffrage, for a vote on school nominations
and to enable women to vote for the appointing officer if the Boston
school board should be made appointive instead of elective. The
association always joined with other societies in asking for measures
for the public welfare.

1906. The association's petition for a constitutional amendment was
debated March 23 and defeated without a roll call. One headed by John
Golden, president of the Textile Workers, for Municipal suffrage for
wage-earning women was also defeated without a division, as were the
petitions for License suffrage and for a vote on school nominations.

1907. The constitutional amendment was debated February 20 and
defeated by 125 to 14. The Good Templars asked for License suffrage
for women. At the hearing the bill was supported by representatives of
the Anti-Saloon League, the W. C. T. U., the Christian Endeavorers,
etc., and opposed by the Anti-Suffrage Association and the attorney of
the Wine and Spirits Wholesale Dealers' Association. A bill requiring
that the same measures be taken to keep the names of women voters
(school) on the register as the names of men failed to pass.

1908. Municipal suffrage for all women, asked for by the association,
was vigorously debated and voted down by 99 to 30. Municipal suffrage
for women taxpayers, asked for by individuals, was defeated without a
roll call.

1909. At the hearing on February 23 the Boston _Herald_, which was not
in favor of equal suffrage, estimated that 2,000 women besieged the
State House. They crowded the corridors and the large portico until
two great overflow meetings were held in the open air at either end of
the broad stairway leading up