The Detroit times., 1913-02-19
Senate Will Take Up Amend
ment on Tuesday; House
on Thursday
INDICATIONS ARE VOTE
WILL BE FAVORABLE
Ants Are Active But Members
Claimed for Their Side
Enter Denials
From a Son Cor espondent.

| LANSING, Mich, Feb. lS.-The
senate resolution for the submission
OF a woman suffrage amendment
passed that body I'm committee of the
opposition, and after an extended
squabble on the question OF putting
Il on its immediate passage was set
as a special order for o'clock, Tues
day, Feb. %.
Consideration OF the Flowers reso-
luton on the same question was put
on by the house till Thursday. when
It will be a special order for 2:3O
O'Clock.
The general belief Is that both will
pass. The refusal OF the senators TO
take immediate action Is not thought
To be indicative OF sentiment against
the measure, but against hasty legis-
lation. Senator Verdier. OF Grand
Rapids, made the contention. In which
he was upheld by several colleagues,
that some verbal changes in the reso-
luton are necessary. In its present
form, he says, a foreign woman might
land in New York one day and vote
the next, provided she was married
TO a man who had lived in this coun-
try 81 years.
The purpose IN trying to force an
immediate adoption was said to be TO
forestall whatever credit the Nation
ar Progressives may get from an en-
phatic Endorsement of equal suffrage
In their state convention I'm Battle
Creek today; however, Republican
votes frustrated the attempt.
When Senator Kelley asked for the
vote, Senator Fitzgibbon, of Port HUI
ron, amended his motion to put the
matter over one week. The senator's
voted down this amendment, IA 10
15, and also the original motion which
would require a two-thirds majority,
by II to IL. Senator Straight, OF the
ninth district, made motion to re-
consider and again the proposition
was defeated, rs TO 10. Finally the
I matter was set on the calendar for
next Tuesday on a motion by Sena'
tor Murtha, OF Detroit.
The situation in the house Is prac-
Etically unchanged, although the ants
have been working hard the last two
weeks and are asserting with seem
ing confidence that they have cor
raled the necessary "a votes.
All of the IL Progressive members
will stand by their platform when
the test comes and would do so, they
say, without any special appeal such
as that by Henry NJ. Wallace. Of De
troit, In letters to them Monday.
However, one OF them, who person
ally is opposed to women voting, has
agreed with the opposition that IL IL
Is desired, he VIII introduce an
amendment to put OF the submission
till 1914 He may do this he says,
and nor violate his party pledge.
The fact that the anti members are
planning such a move, indicates that
their case is not 40 sure as they
would have 1t appear. Two men
mentioned as having shifted, we're
questioned last night, and both said
they would vote for submission. One
explained that all he had said TO the
contrary was that he had not prom
ised TO vote for Il, and the other had
asserted that the submission OF state
wide prohibition and woman suffrage
In the same session. would hurt both
proposals.
In the course OF the discussion or
the Kelley resolution in the senate,
Senator Weadock, OF Saginaw, offered
an amendment TO keep women from
holding once, hut II was not adopted.
The senate passed four bills; one
TO make appropriation OF $4,000 TO
cover a deficiency in the highway de-
partment, which was given immedi.
ate effect; another to require notice
by registered msil of sales OF prop
erty for taxes; TO repeal the act pro
viding fury commissioners In Ber-
rien county, and the Corliss bill
making more stringent the law COW
ering wife desertion,
Senator Straight. OF the ninth dis
trict, introduced three school bills
in which he proposes the creation or
special schools for children needing
moral education. and to have all chill
dren under Is, come under the com
pulsory attendance law. The other
change from the present law suggest
ed. Is 70 make the process OF commit
ment 10 reformatories one Of trans
fer OF pupils instead OF a penal ac-
ton. This also lessons greatly pro
baton work as now conducted by
putting II in the school system where
IL is said properly TO belong
Pills similar 10 these we're intro
duced IN the house by Rep Odell, OF
Allegan
Senator James, thirty-second dis
trict. proposed four bills 90 repeal
obsolete sections of the complied
laws. Senator Ogg, OF Detroit. Of
fered one 10 forbid the sale ~ plumes
or the Snowy Heron and American
Egret. and another 90 enable Protes.