Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-22
English Premier's Prom
Use Of Introducing Bill
An6ers Suffra6etteS.
RESCUED FROM DANGER BY
STRONG BODY OF POLICE
Leader Strikes Cabinet Head
and Pursues Him-Hun-
dred Are Arrested.

LONDON Nov. 22.-Premier Asquith
was assaulted by suffragettes in the
precincts of the House of Commons to-
day and was saved from rough hand
ling only by the prompt arrival Of
strong body Of police.
Since the reopening Of Parliament
delegations of militant suffragettes
have pioketed the approaches to the
lower house so closely that the premier
has been obliged to resort to strange
devices to circumvent the petitioners.
Tn addition to this campaign the
woman members of radical election
committees threatened a revolt unless
the government recognized their claims
prior to the general elections.
Promise Anglers Women.
It seems that the premier's promise
made in the House Of Commons today
instead of placating, only infiamed the
women. who decided that Mr.. Asquith
was playing with them.
At meeting at Caxton Hail MISS
rhristabel Pankhurst characterized the
minister's statement as wholly unsat-
factory and nothing more nor less
than an insult to the cause
The women, she shouted, considered
the nremier's attitude a declaration OF
war and they would answer the cnai-
lenge Immediately.
No sooner said than done. With .
rush the women emptied the hall ana
several hundred strong started TOT
Downing street With unexpected good
fortune they encountered MI Asqulth
on route and before the premier reaA-
lied the situation, he was surrounded
NV ;rate suffragettes. 1t was not long
hefore he recognized that he was in a
hostile camp, for. without any preilmi-
neries Miss Henrietta Williams struck
the government leader, at the same
time calculating:
.sYou tax women as heavily as men,
vet women are not represented in Par
liamentr
women struggle to Fight.
shriIl police whistles brought officers
from all nearby quarters, and as the
women struggled among themselves for
the privilege of getting at him, the
premier was hustled into q taxicab.
AS the car started off with bound
Miss Williams made another attempt
a. reach its occupant and in doing so
nut her fist through the glass of the
car window. She was pulled away still
crving "Traitor!" and Coward"
During the melee about 100 women
we're arrested.
The trouble did not end with the
escape of Mr.. Asquith. Robbed OF their
special prey, big body Of women proke
through the police barrier and reached
Downing street For considerable
time pandemonium reigned In tne
vicinity of the ministerial residences
and government offices.
Shrieking women, many of them
armed with bamboo poles that had
h<<sn used to support banners, but now
&yed as lances, fought like Amazons,
,Elesperately attacking the police ana
clawing and kicking to such good pur-
/ pose that the police line was broken
land the officers forced to Temporarily
nnire
olice reinforcements were hurried TO
scene and, throwing themselves
Rsa sainst the rioters, checked the ad-
vance.
Women and their male sympathizers
were hurled to the ground. In many
fhnstances the officers literally dragged
Ahe women out of the fighting zone and
hthus saved them from being trampied
ITO death by the mob behind.
\ II was some time before the police
Ssuccaeded in clearing Downing street.
a litter of millinery, bits Of costumes,
hand bags and torn banners gave evil
dence of the fierceness with which the
field had been contested.
Premier Asquith has yielded to the
uncertainties of the suffragettes, and
In fhe House of Commons today an
nounced that il he was still In power
at the next session of Parliament the
government would give facilities Tor
the consideration of woman's fran
chise hill. so framed as to admit Of free
amendment
Premier Asquith also held out the
Dliye branch to the rebellious laporltes,
promising to introduce legislation with
tha \act of neutralizing the adverse
an Ne Osborne Judgment, which
un eoor unions could not use
for the payment of their
fatives in Parliament
Ti!s government proposed legislation
giving to trades unions the right to
proyide funds for use In parliamentary
and municipal campaigns and 1or the
support of labor's representatives, pro-
vided there was no compulsion upon
members of the unions to contribute TO
such funds, he said. Apart from these
announcements there was little interest
On the proceedings, which lasted less
than an hour
The Unionists declined to participate
5n q discussion of the emasculateo
finance bill, from which all controver-
sial clauses like the whiskey and land
taxes had been eliminated until after
election, and the measure passed its
second reading without division of
the house.
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