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244 HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE Mrs. Guy P. Gannett, with Miss Lola Walker as executive secre- tary to the chairman. LEGISLATIVE ACTION. The State Suffrage Association and the State Woman's Christian Temperance Union always worked for woman suffrage measures in the Legislature in cordial co- operation, beginning in 1887. 1901. Suffrage bills did not come out of committee. 1903. A bill was introduced for Municipal suffrage for tax- paying women by Representative George H. Allan of Portland. The Joint Standing Committee eliminated "taxpaying" and reported a bill giving Municipal suffrage to all women. The State Suffrage Association did an enormous amount of work in behalf of this bill, sending letters to 15,000 women representing 239 cities and towns who were paying taxes on approximately $25,000,000. Several thousand answers urging the bill were received, coming from every county and from 237 of the cities and towns. It was lost in the Senate by a tie and in the House by a vote of no noes, 29 ayes. 1905, 1907, 1909, no suffrage bills were reported out of com- mittee. 1911. Four members of the Judiciary Committee made a minority report in favor of the suffrage measure and the House voted to substitute the minority report but the Senate refused to concur. 1913. A new resolve asking for submission of a suffrage amendment was drafted by George H. Allan and introduced in the Senate by Ira G. Hersey, which gave a vote of 23 ayes, 6 noes. In the House the vote was 89 ayes, 53 noes only six more votes needed for the necessary two-thirds. 1915. A joint resolution to submit a full suffrage amendment passed the Senate by 26 ayes, 4 noes ; the House vote by 88 ayes, 59 noes ten more votes needed for the two-thirds. Introduced by Representative Lauren M. Sanborn. 1917. The resolution was adopted in the House February 21 by 112 ayes, 35 noes; unanimously adopted by the Senate Febru- ary 22. In signing it the next day Governor Carl E. Milliken said to the suffrage leaders: "You have appealed to reason and not to prejudice. Your campaign has been a very fine example of