The San Francisco call., 1905-02-24
STATE WILL RE-CEDE THE YOSEMITE
LEGISLATURE DEALS DEATH BLOW
TO CAUSE OF W0MAN'S SUFFRAGE
Assembly and Senate Defeat Proposed
Measure After Sharp Debate
Special Dispatch to The can.

SACRAMENTO, Feb. 23.-Woman's
suffrage again went down to defeat IN
the Senate this morning. Called up
on special order, the question was
again the subject of debate, but 1t
fell three votes short of the necessary
twenty-seven ballots. Senator Short
ridge, upon whose motion the question
of the proposed constitutional amend
ment granting the women or the STATE
/ the right to vote was reconsluerea'
/ was first to address his colleagues IN
behalf of the measure.
1T is not a question of policy that
here confronts US, said Senator
Shortridge but a question of referen-
dunn. At the time of the last debate
+ upon this question Senator Wolfe OF
San Francisco said he would like TO
/ leave the question of womens SUI
frage to the women of the state.
will leave it to the women; 10 the
shop girls that work for half the wages
paid to men in similar positions. to the
girls in the canneries that LABOR
through the weary hours for pit
tance. I will leave it to the tolllng
women that bear the burdens or taxa
tion without representation.
Senator Anderson followed Short
ridge, speaking in favor OF the pro-
posed amendment. Wolfe opposed II
Ine call 1OT the NOlc was bAASAl
and the measure was defeated by
vote of IL against and "a in favor, ~
being necessary to carry under tne
twO-thirdS rule.
In the Assembly the debate on the
measure was heated.
Il am not married map like many
of the other members of this house.
but l hope to be, and when L do get
married 1 do not want my wife rum
ming around doing politics. The girl
/ am going to marry doesn't want to
do politics and if she did l wouldn't
marry her..
This public announcement Of his en-
gagement by Assemblyman Espey,
statesnanlike speech by Gus Hartman
1 of the Fortieth District of San Fran
cisco, and a split in the Fresno dele
CATION over the subject were the main
features of the discussion of woman
suffrage that ragged this morning and
resulted in call of the house, during
which the. unprecedented action or
sending the sergeant-at-arms after the
| Speaker, that his vote might be record
ed, was taken.
| Treadwell championed the cause OF
! the suffra gists The matter before the
house was the passage of his consI-
tutional amendment giving women the
right to vote. The Senate had just
! defeated the amendment by only two
VOTES, ne Sdlu, A1C AOhC0 LIZ -
sembly would pay the women of Cali
fornia the compliment Of giving them
another chance.
Olmsted said he had the greatest re-
spect and esteem for the ladies of Cali
| fornia. but he did not believe that
majority of them wanted to vote. Elk
perience elsewhere taught that the
amendment was not a desirable mea-
sure, he said.
Houser said that while he was not
particularly enthusiastic for the meas
ure he was glad to be able to say
few words for it. Gus Hartman rose
to the highest peaks of oratory, say
ing the woman's sphere was a do
mestic one and that she should be at
home with her family. Cromwell
said that many of the women were
taxpayers and that they objected to
taxation without representation
Burke said he had seen in the AS
sembly committees of ladies, both for
and against the amendment. and the
latter seemed larger than the former.
Therefore he would oppose it. Chand-