on Municipal suffrage, noes, 86; ayes,
56; on Presidential, noes 93; ayes, 55.

1909. For the usual bill the Legislature substituted one giving women
a vote on levying a tax for maintaining a public library, which passed
the Senate without roll call and the House by 82 ayes, 50 noes. It
never was put into operation.

1911. The two usual bills received unanimous favorable reports from
committees. The Municipal passed the Senate but was defeated in the
House, both without roll call. A resolution to submit an amendment was
defeated in the House, not voted on in the Senate.

1913. State constitutional amendment defeated in the Senate by 20
noes, 9 ayes, and in the House without roll call.

1915. The above action was repeated except that both Houses defeated
without a roll call.

1917. Three measures were introduced--a bill for Presidential and
Municipal suffrage, a bill giving women a vote in local option
elections and the amendment resolution. The two bills were fought with
great determination. The first was defeated in the Senate by 19 noes,
13 ayes; in the House by 149 noes, 85 ayes. The Excise bill was tabled
in the Senate, rejected in the House by 139 noes, 69 ayes. The
resolution passed the House by 138 ayes, 96 noes and was referred to
the next Legislature for final action, as required by law.

1919. The State constitutional amendment came automatically before the
Legislature but a legal opinion given by former Governor Baldwin held
that it would sweep away the literacy test for voters and the suffrage
leaders, who doubted the wisdom of going to the work and expense of a
referendum campaign when the Federal Amendment was so near, were glad
to have so good a reason for not pressing the matter. The Presidential
suffrage bill secured a majority favorable report from the Joint Woman
Suffrage Committee and it passed in the House by a majority of 27. In
the Senate the Republican "machine" was determined to defeat it. In
the first vote there was a majority of two against it but on
reconsideration there was only one. The "machine" only defeated it by
winning a few Democratic votes. The fight over this measure had been
made with skill and courage by the women against the most determined
opposition on the part of the Republican "machine," which since 1900
had completely controlled both Houses.

The chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, John Henry
Roraback, and Major John Buckley, secretary to the Governor