324 HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE manship of the Legislative Committee and was succeeded by Miss Wells, the vice-chairman. LEGISLATIVE ACTION. 1903. A Presidential suffrage bill was introduced in the House and energetically pushed but was not reported by the Judiciary Committee. 1905. A large delegation headed by Mrs. Stockwell, State president, called on Governor John A. Johnson and urged him to recommend woman suffrage in his message to the Legisla- ture but he failed to do so. The resolution to submit a consti- tutional amendment was introduced in the House but not re- ported by the Judiciary Committee. 1907. After the resolution for a suffrage amendment was presented a hearing was granted by the Senate Elections Com- mittee 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 Uni- versity 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 Elec- tions 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 dele- gations from the Twin Cities of a Memorial to a joint gathering of the two Houses with pleas for a State amendment. The reso- lution 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 reso- lution, 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 pre- sented the amendment resolution in the Senate and Representa-
