Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-08
PLEA To USE
HALL NOT
Needed
Lower Body Will Take Up ResOIu-
ton Giving Women That
Chamber for Meeting.

Contrary to general expectation. the
Senate made no effort to take from
the table to-day the resolution of Mr..
HUE, of the Thirty-fifth. permitting
the use of the Senate chamber to-
morrow and Thursday nights to the
Georgia Woman Suffrage Association.
This means that the resolution now
pending in the House permitting the
women to use the Hall Of Representa-
tlves instead will be taken up for ac-
tIon morrow, and lively time Is
anticipated.
Representative John Y. Smith, of
Fulton, who offered the House reso-
luton Monday had intended calling
Il up for action to-day, but he learned
that a move might be made in the
Senate 10 take up its twice rejected
resolution and put it on it's passage
SO Mr.. Smith purposely refrained
from agitating the matter in the
House,
Smith TO Push Measure.
"I had heard" said Representative
Smith. that the Senate might recon
slider its action and l wished to avoid
If possible making even a seeming is
sue with that body. However, |
shall call up my resolution tomorrow
and vigorously urge Its passage.
las it stands now, ! do not wish
my resolution to be considered as a
slap at the Senate, but l do think the
women of Georgia should be permit
ted the use Of one hall or the other,
particularly as we have permitted
their use in the past to all sorts Ct
political NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ne
groes.
The Woman Suffrage Association
meets Wednesday, and I can not hold
off my resolution further. Many
members of the House and numerous
members Of the Senate seem to feel
that a mistake has been made IN
Withholding fro the women permits
sion to use one of the halls; and,
anyway, I, for one, wish to so on rec
ord as being in favor Of extending this
courtesy TO them"
Members Are Stirred.
There are many members OF both
bodies who feel keenly the impending
difference OF recorded opinion between
the Senate and the Hous that will be
spread upon the journals in the event
the House votes to permit the use Of
its hall to the suffragists.
Senator Converse said he thought
in view Of the fact that the House
purposely deferred action to-day, In
view Of the fact that the House pur-
posely deferred action to-day, in order
that the Senate might reconsider Its
actions Of Monday, IL 1t cared to. that
the Senate could well afford to re-
verse its opinion and grant the use OF
the hall.
u do not think the Senate quite I'M
derstood that the Senate chamber was
to be used by these women entirely at
night, at a time when it could not in
terfere in the slightest with the bust
ness of the Senate, and that it was &c
be used entirely for the purposes of
the women. The Senate would in no
way have committed itself to the
cause of woman suffrage by permit
ting the use Of the hall. no more,
might say, than it would have com
mitted itself to the cause of Mr..
Roosevelt by permitting its use for a
Bull Moose gathering"
House Not to Hesitate.
Nevertheless. now that the Senate
has let pass its last opportunity to
forestaH contrary action by the House.
there are very many members of the
latter body in favor of going right
through with the completion Of the
record. thereby putting the House ex-
actly opposite to the Senate in the
matter of extending to the women the
courtesy they have asked.
Undoubtedly numerous members Of
the House have hesitated to take a
step that might be construed by the
Senate as a slap In the face. but
that hesitation has passed. Members
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