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 5O6 HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE prevented its reconsideration by less than a two-thirds vote. The House had appeared more favorable than the Senate and it seemed certain that it would pass that body. On February 18, five days after the measure had passed the Senate, Senator Jacob- son moved that it be recalled from the House, where it had had its first and second readings and been referred to the Committee on Elections. This motion was carried by 26 to 22. The oppo- nents at once gathered their forces. Judge N. C. Young of Fargo, attorney for the Northern Pacific Railway, and Mrs. Young, president of the State Anti-Suffrage Association, ar- rived immediately and began lobbying, Judge Young even ap- pearing on the floor of the Senate chamber. 1 The German vote was promised to ambitious politicians and a desired change of the county seat was offered. The Senate not having the neces- sary two-thirds to kill the resolution refused by a majority vote to take action upon it. It should then have gone automatically back to the House but the president of the Senate, Lieutenant Governor Fraine, withheld it until the Legislature adjourned. The chief opponents during these years were the old Republican "stand-patters," who controlled the political "machine," and Judge Young was one of the most prominent. Success came with its overthrow. 1917. The Legislative Committee consisted of Mrs. Clen- dening and Mrs. Weible. On January 14 Senator Oscar Lind- strom introduced a Presidential and Municipal suffrage bill, writ- ten by Senator Pollock at Mrs. Anderson's request. It was modelled on the Illinois bill and beginning with July i it entitled women to vote for Presidential electors, county surveyors and constables and for all officers of cities, villages and towns excepting police magistrates and city justices of the peace. A concurrent resolution providing for an amendment to the State constitution to give full suffrage to women was also introduced. Both were passed on January 16 by the same vote, 37 ayes, 1 1 noes in the Senate; 89 ayes, 19 noes in the House, and were A field worker for a philanthropic organization, who had a room in a hotel in Bis- marck, the capital, next to one occupied by the representative of the liquor interests, heard him send a long distance telephone message to Mrs. Young for her and the Judge to come on the first train, as they were needed. She heard another one say: "If the d n women get the ballot there will be no chance of re-submitting the prohibition amendment."