The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-03-20
LEGISLATURE REJECTS
WOMAN SUFFRAGE BILL
Measure Lacks Seven Votes in
Senate and Eight in
Assembly.
NEARER THAN EVER BEFORE
House, However, FavOrs Proposition
Over Adverse Report by
go TO 63.

came nearer to success than ever before
The Senate virtually rejected the bill by
vote of 2i to TO- The Assembly IA
vored the bill by SO to 90 over an adverse
report OF the Judiciary Committee. It
requires 20 votes to pass bill in the Senate
and 10 in the Assembly. The cause there
fore lacked votes In the Senate and
in the Assembly.
Senator Stephen j. Stilwell. Democrat
OF The Bronx. and Assemblymsn Andrew
introduced the amendment on which
the vote was taken.
The Stilwell bill came up on the genera
orders calendar in the Senate. and after
debate which lasted more than three
hours the motion of Majority Leader
Wagner that the bill be killed by striking
out the enacting clause was carried by
vote of ~ to II.
The Senate was asked to disagree with
the action taken in the Committee OF the
Whole. but the motion was lost by vote
of 10 to 81 as follows:
AYES - DEMOCRATS - Bayne. Burd.
Cronin. Duhamel. Griffin. Harte. Loomis
Transporter. Roosevelt. Sanner. SAKE. Still
well and T. ID. Sulivan-l3.
REPU UBLlCANS-Bu Cobb. Emer-
son. Griflith. Heacock and Travis-8.
NOES 90 DEMOCRATS - Black. Cullen
Ferris. Frawley. Foley. Gittins. McClel
land. Murtaugh. o 'Brien and Wagner-lO.
REPu BLlCANS- Allen. Coates. Hamil-
ton. Hewitt. Hnman. OrmrOd. Rose. Sage
Thomas. Wainwright and Walters-ii.
Senator Stilwell was dissatisfied with
the action taken in committee Of the
whole. where no record Of any vote is
kept, and made his motion to disagree
with that action and that the amendment
be advanced TO third reading to get the
Senators on record on a roll call in the
open Senate.
The Murray amendment came up in
the Assembly when it was reported ad-
versely from the Assembly Judiciary
Committee. After a long debate the
House voted to disagree with the adverse
report by vote of 6s to 8s. This leaves
the amendment in n position where the
Rules Committee may place it upon the
cs,iendur any day.
or the seven members Of the Rules
Committee only Assemblymen Young and
Murray. Republicans. voted on the side
OF woman's suffrage. while Assemblymen
Yale and Parker. Republicans. and A. f
Smith and Frisbie. Democrats. voted
against the proposition. Speaker Merritt.
who is the chairman Of the Rules Com
mittee did not vote.
Those who voted in favor OF woman's
suffrage in the Assembly were:
REPUBLICANS Ahearn. Allen. Banzhaf.
Baumes. Bell. Bennett. Brooks. Cheney.
Chiffon. Coleman. Colne. Constantine. Crane.
Crawford. Ebbets. fleck. Gillett. Goodman.
Hart. Heiberger. Horton. karutz. Lang
horst. Lent. Lincoln. Macgregor. Machold.
Murray, Nelson, Page, Pembleton, Pierce,
Rahl. Ruddici. Schector. Schmitt Shlivek.
Singleton. Slater. Slocum. Stoddard. Thomp-
son. Thorn. Wilson. Wood Young Yule-47.
DEMOCRATS-Boyla Campbell. Chan
Ter. Evans, Goldberg, Graubard. Greenberg.
Heyman. kennedy. A. j. Levy. Madden.
McCue. McGrath. Mckee. McKeon. Rutland.
Schifferdecker, Walker. Wheeler. Will
motto.
SOCIALIST Merrill.
Those who voted against woman.n
suffrage were:
REPUBLlCANS-Adl Barnes. Brere-
ton. Brong Brown, Bryant. Bullion. Cotfey,
Cook. Crandell. Cross. Duntz. Edwards.
Entwistle. Gibeau. Grace. Hinman. Hou.
Hopkins. Jones. Keys. kopp. Macdonald
Malone, Matthewson. Milford. Pappert,
Parker. Phillips Richardson Robinson,
Seaker. Shepardson. NJ. Smith. +. X. Smith.
Stivers. sullivan. Tallcott. Talmage. Vert.
Waring. Waters. Whitney. Winters. Yale.
Yeomans go.
DEMOCRATS Blauvelt. Brennan, Bush.
Caughlan. Cuvilier Frisbie. Gurnett. Hack
EFT. Jackson. j. Levy. MoDanieis. McElli-
gott. Patrie. schwartz. A. +. Smith. Well.
Zorn-E.
The suffragists are jubilant Some OF
them freely assert that while victory was
not certain this year they are satisfied
with the results of the vote. They figure
that next year. with possibly many
changes in the membership of both the
Senate and Assembly, woman suffrage
will get through and by 1914 be ready for
omission to the people
II was pointed out to the women that
even though the Assembly Rules Com
mittee. which on the surface stands 4 to 2
against woman suffrage. with the
Speaker not voting did permit the bill to
get out Of its clutches and come up again
on the floor OF the House, it would not
stand much OF a chance Of passage be-
cause it requires seventy six votes to pass
a bill and there were only sixty-eight in
sight for it. 1t also was made plain that
even though the Assembly did pass the
woman's suffrage proposition it could not
again get before the Senate at this session,
as that body had by its action to-day killed
it for this year.
The suffragists took comfort in the fact
that men like Majority Leader Young
Senator Cobb and few others had been
converted to their cause. They made no
mention. however. of the fact that mem
| bers of both houses shared the feelinp
frankly stated on the floor of the Senate
Ex-senator Travis Of Kings that while he
was willing TO vote for the advancement
| OF the bill he would have to be "shown
good and strong" that there was a greater
demand than had been made apparent Ia
him for womans suffrage before he would
vote for its final passage.
Others, like j. Leo Sullivan, a LAWYER
| and Assembyman from Chauta,oila.
insisted that the whole question of mend
ing the Constitution to permit women
| to vote ugnt to be deferred until the
next constitute lonal convent OIL
During the debate in the Senate Mrs
John A. Dix. wife of the Governor. was
, one of the most Interested spectators
J A friend asked her il she favored woman =
suffrage She laughed and said she
was in position similar to 9 me of the
| legislators in that she was willing Ia
hear arguments on both sides but was
noncommittal before all the evidence
was in"
Senator Thomas an Assemblyman
Hinman, who are lawyers and are father,
ing the resolution proposing to rescind
the last Legislatures favorable indorse.
ment Of the Federal income tax amend.
ment, made special points in their ar.