Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1913-07-04
SUFFRAGE WILL
COME UP AGAIN
Women to Renew Fight at EE-
ira Session Of Legislature.
GOVERNOR SAYS HE is FOR 1T
Goes on Record in Favor of the Fair
Sex in Addressing Scandinavian
Reunion at Chicago.
GOVERNOR SAYS HE is FOR IT
Especial correspondence

woman suffrage is going to have a
place in the deliberations of the COM
ing special session of the legislature
which Governor Eberhart has prom
ised he will call, and paste this in
your hat at the same time, Votes for
Women" will prevail. Miss Mary Nc
Fadden, the irrepressible, is on the
job, and you know what that means.
II anything else was wanting, his ex'
cellency, Governor Eberhart, has en-
dorsed the movement, and he adds
that he will gladly sign any suffrage
act presented to him. The governor
took the plunge when, addressing a
Scandinavian reunion at Chicago, he
said, Votes for women are coming
and nothing can stop it." Perhaps
his surroundings compelled it, as the
Illinois legislature had just extended
the franchise to women in a limited
way, but just the same his eXcellency
Is on record. Explaining his utter
Rnces on his return from the Windy
City Governor Eberhart said that his
stand was nothing new; he had al
ways been for woman suffrage and
he still was with the fair sex. In
Minnesota, however, a woman suf-
frage act requires an amendment to
the constitution and it matters little
whether the governor is for it or not.
The action of the legislature is final
and it goes on the ballot without fur
Their consideration. AS an example
take the seven senators amendment
Governor Eberhart would like to have
vetoed it, but he could not. Perhaps
there is method in his madness.
Whichever way it goes he wins; II
the women's way it is another evil
dence of his foresight and if it fails
those opposed have no kick coming.
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At the late session of the legislature
votes for women passed the house
with votes to spare, but it went down
to defeat in the senate. There was
majority of three against the new or
der of things. Men who claimed to
know said the house simply passed it
up to the senate with the knowledge
that it would be killed there, but there
are several l know, who had they
realized how close the vote was going
to be would never have let it get that
far. Miss Mary McFadden, who, it is
reported, will attempt to pilot the is
sue to success this time, was not on
the job then and this probably ex-
plains it's defeat. The State Woman's
Suffrage association it was said, be-
coming jealous of her success in adj
vancing the movement at a previous
session, ruled her out of the game at
the last session and they lost as a
result. Miss McFadden, however, is
not going to ask the association for
help this time and for that reason
gather she is going to win or come
pretty near it. Mary McFadden-par-
don my dropping the prefix Miss-is
known to every newspaper man in the
North Star state and a few adjoining
states. She has done work on half
the newspapers in the Twin Cities
and Duluth. In the days of the polit-
ical convention no gathering Of that
kind was complete without her, and
her acquaintance with the king max
ers extended to their innermost pOlit'
zeal secrets Her writings were al
ways copied. Mary-again pardon my
familiarity-began the suffrage move
ment six years ago and it has to be
said for her that the movement has
progressed. There were lots of votes
for it when the issue was considered
q dead one simply for Mary's sake
and now with special session prom
ised many Of the members, sore al
being pulled from their work for some
thing they believe could just as vel
be handled two years hence, and 9th
ers out to get his excellencys goat al
any cost-well, I say, just look out
Mary may win.
j. i. j.
The last legislature appropriated
$4,000 for the widening and deepen
Ing Of the Roseau river, in the count!
of that name, but there is possibilit!
that owenrs of land abutGing the river
who have suffered a loss by over
nowage, will not realize The worl
represents internal improvements AM
the constitution does not permit thu
same under a general appropriation
The deepening of the river is mad
necessary by extensive drainage ditcl
operations. The drainage commission
visited the scene of the improvement
last week, saw it's necessity and ha
put the matter up to the attorne
general for an opinion as to the lega
Ity of the appropriation.
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If a signed agreement filed with tn
state railroad and warehouse commi
sion last week by eight railroads o.
Grating in the state is in any wa
binding persons entitled to owe
charges under the 2-cent fare an
freight rate schedules, which wer
held valid by the United States s.