MINNESOTA 325 tive 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. 1 It failed by one vote and was not brought up in the House. A Presiden- tial 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 loo to 28 in favor, Senate 49 to 7. It was decided not to intro- duce 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 postponed in the Senate. The bill giving women the right to vote for Presidential electors passed the House March 5 by 103 ayes, 24 noes; and the Senate March 21 by 49 ayes, n noes. It was signed by Governor J. A. A. Burnquist two days later in the presence of a group of suffragists. 2 1 For ten years Senator Sullivan of Stillwater, and for twenty-two years Senator W. W. Dunn, attorney for the Hamm Brewing Company of St. Paul, worked actively against all suffrage legislation, in late years being able to defeat bills by only two or three votes. 1 Among legislators not mentioned who were helpful during these years were Senator Stockwell and Representatives W. I. Norton, H. H. Harrison, W. I. Nolan, Sherman Child, John Sanborn and Claude Southwick.
