sented a
hearing was granted by the Senate Elections Committee and the Senate
Chamber secured for it through Senator Virgil B. Seward, who had
charge of it. The college women were represented by Professor Frances
Squire Potter of the University of Minnesota and the committee
reported favorably. It was defeated in the Senate and not brought up
in the House.

1909. At the hearing before the Joint Committee on Elections on the
resolution for a State amendment, which was the largest ever held by
the association, convincing addresses were made by eminent lawyers,
educators and other public men. It was defeated in the Senate by a
vote of 30 to 26; in the House by 50 to 46.

1911. The chairman of the Legislative Committee was Miss Mary
McFadden, who carried out a demonstration on Susan B. Anthony's
birthday--February 15--the presenting by large delegations from the
Twin Cities of a Memorial to a joint gathering of the two Houses with
pleas for a State amendment. The resolution for it, sponsored by Ole
Sageng, passed the House a few days later by a majority of 81 but the
liquor interests and public service corporations defeated it in the
Senate by two votes.

1913. Senator Sageng again had charge of the suffrage resolution,
which passed the House by a majority of 43 votes but failed in the
Senate by three.

1915. Mrs. Andreas Ueland was chairman of the Legislative Committee
from 1915 to 1919 inclusive. Senator Sageng presented the amendment
resolution in the Senate and Representative Larson in the House. An
impressive hearing was held in a crowded Senate chamber, with Senators
J. W. Andrews, Richard Jones, Frank E. Putnam, F. H. Peterson and Ole
Sageng making speeches in favor. Those who spoke against it were
Senators George H. Sullivan, F. A. Duxbury and F. H. Pauly.[98] It
failed by one vote and was not brought up in the House. A Presidential
suffrage bill was also introduced but did not come to a vote.

1917. The suffrage work was confined to the Presidential suffrage bill
which was defeated in the Senate by two votes.

1919. This Legislature adopted a resolution calling upon Congress to
submit the Federal Suffrage Amendment; House 100 to 28 in favor,
Senate 49 to 7. It was decided not to introduce an amendment
resolution but to work for Presidential suffrage. The resolution was
introduced, however, by a small group of women outside the
association. It passed the House by 96 ayes, 26 noes, but was
indefinitely postp