Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-10
RIGHT THE WOMEN.

The women representing the Woman's
Suffrage Association have complaint it
is a serious one. If well grounded scuryy
trick has been played upon them, and the
Assembly owes it to its OWN sense of fair
dealing to right the wrong first and next
to ferret out and punish the wrongdoer.
The Association has been represented in
this city during the session of the iegisla-
ture by q committee of ladies. As citizens
Of the State, taxed for its support, they
deserved fair and manly treatment They
had a right to expect it. If their com
plant Is true, and the records and the evi-
dence give it all the force of verify, they
have been shabby, not to say dishonesty,
treated, and the viii of the houses Of the
Legislature has been defeated by a trick
We are not now discussing the question of
the policy Of the measure they advocated,
giving women the ballot. Our posi-
ton on that subject is well known,
but it cuts no figure in the
present matter. The women claim
and we believe their claim is true,
that their bill has been defeated by 2 re-
a remarkable succession of bIunders,
that may or may not have been purpose
full. If mere errors, they should not now
work the total defeat of the bill. II pur-
p)seful, they should be investigated, if the
House has to remain in session week to
do it. The women complainant they
exhibit the House and Senate records in
Support-that Assembly Bill No. 449 and
Senate Bill No. 236 are identical. The
Senate bill has passed to a third reading,
but Assembly messages coming up first re-
tard it. The Assembly bill passed to a
third reading also, but was omitted from
the third-reading file The votes in Senate
and Assembly show both houses to be
favorable to the bill On Wednesday last
the question on the bill was on engross-
ment and sending to 4 third reading in the
Assembly. The vote was announced %
ayes, 80 noes. The true vote WAS - ayes
and 81 noes. Mr.. Ward, Of Butte, was
omitted from the ayes and Mr.. Lowell, the
author Of the bill, was recorded as voting
no. This blunder lost a day to the hill
and nccessitatcd reconSidcration-mov
by Mr.. Walrath, an opponent Of the bill,
but loving fair play. On that vote the
ayes were 81 and the noes 2S. On the
new vote to encrosS and send to a third
reading, singularly another bunder
was made up and the vote sent up to the
Speaker az so ayes aud 80 noes. The
truth was the vote stood 81 AYES and 80
noes, for Mr.. Pellet, who voted avc, was
recorded Is no, and Mr. Watson, Of El
Dorado, who was absent from the House,
was cla~sod among the noes. Thursday
evening Watson had his vote stricken of,
and Pellet advised the Speaker Of the
blundcr in his ease and the Speaker, who
Is for the bill, directed correction to lie
made, but as this was after adjournment
the matter was brought up Saturday and
the House ordered the errors to he cor
rected. That placed The bill on She third
reading file. What was the establishment
of the friends OF The measure to find yes
terday that some subordinate had de
feated the will Of the House by emitting
TO place the bill upon that file There re
mains but one thing to do, and that is for
the House to suspend the rules take up
the bill at once to-day and see to it that
fair dealing is had Pass it or Kill it
openly, and, above all, rebuke incom-
potency or raseality, whichever is to blame
for these remarkable blunders The honor
of the House demands that the bill he
taken up and we trust a two-thirds vote
will record the names Of men loving fair
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