ived for us to decide on so
important a matter. We await further developments, and are
under the impression that there is no popular demand for the
change--at least not sufficient to warrant us in
recommending so important a change in our form of government
at the present session of the legislature--and ask to be
discharged from the further consideration of the subject.

[Signed:] A. HEWITT, _Acting Chairman._

Motion carried to lay the joint resolution on the table.
March 4, it was taken from the table and referred to the
Committee of the Whole, who recommended its passage, and
April 10 it was lost by a vote of 50 to 24:

The committee have considered the matters embraced in the
several resolutions referred to them relative to providing
for woman's suffrage, and have instructed me to report
against adding any such provision to the constitution at
present. The committee ask to be discharged from the further
consideration of the subject.

[Signed:] E. W. MEDDAUGH, _Chairman._

October 14.--A bill for separate submission to a vote of the
people of an amendment to the constitution relating to
woman's suffrage, was lost by a tie vote--7 for and 7
against.

At the extra session of the legislature, 1874, in the House,
March 10, Mr. Hoyt introduced a joint resolution for
separate submission to a vote of the people of an amendment
to the constitution relating to woman suffrage. Referred to
the Committee on Elections and State Affairs, jointly. On
March 12 the following memorial from the State Woman
Suffrage Association[309] was presented in the House:

_To the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of
Michigan, in Special Session Convened: _

The Executive Committee of the Michigan State Woman Suffrage
Association, at their meeting held in Kalamazoo, February
10, 1874, voted to memorialize your honorable body, at your
special session now being held.

We beg leave to represent to you that the object of this
association is to secure, in a legal way, the
enfranchisement of the women of the State