New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-21
Suffrage AMENDMENT
PASSES legislature
Assembly Vote 123 to 7 After
More than Half the DebaterS
Speak Against It.
SPLIT OVER ONE CLAUSE
eonate Favors the Naturaliza-
ton of Foreign Born Women,
hut the Change Is Defeated
in the Lower House.
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nv ECINEIdHU ~ iIf lltNun'sI
,ronv. Jan. 20.-The woman suffrage
e,itutional amendment was adopted
-. tho Assembly tonight by vote of
40 90 : but Harriet May Mills and a
cessation Of prominent advocates of
oouse who crowded the rear of the
.,r,bly chamber got little satisfac-
..,r ont of the debate. OF the fifteen
mon who spoke, eight attacked the
ari,ciple of giving women the right to
10 and il was evident that they
.,od for the amendment merely be-
.orse their parties had pledged them
toit
Tho Assembly had previously defeat
- on amendment offered by Mr. Hin
nan Republican leader, providing that
foreign born woman would have to
No naturalized the same as man in
order 10 vote. This same amendment,
,owaver. was passed in the Senate to-
.,obt and as many of the women suf-
rage leaders want it it is the plan 70
.ova Il incorporated in the measure
,rber II is finally adopted by the SEN
40 II is understood that the As
ssmblv will concur in it. The resolu-
tion will then have 20 be adopted oy
tho legislature of next year and so to
tho neople at the following election.
Those who voted against the meas
,,ra in the Assembly tonight were
1ones Of jefferson; Wood, of Hamil-
ton. Yeomans, of Wayne, Republicans;
McCue of New York; McDaniels, or
romnkins. Rozan, of Buffalo and
souire. of schenectady. Democrats.
Buffalo Babies Thrive.
81 don't wonder that the Democratic
and Republican state conventions
pledged themselves to women suffrage
said Assemblyman Rozan, when the
great hunter himself surrendered TO the
netticoats at Chicago. ! have looked
oil over nv district with magnifying
glass and can find only two women in
favor of woman suffrage. Neither one
# them knows how TO sew on button
There are more babies in my district
than any other district in Buffalo; the
women take great care Of their babies
and have no time for any such non
sense as woman suffrage"
Rozan was loudly applauded as he
voted no with emphasis.
Marty" McCue, of New York re-
peated his declaration that he was
against woman suffrage and that he
was under no obligations to obey
pledges Of the Syracuse convention. as
h. was nominated before it was held.
The majority leader. Aaron J. Levy
ana the minority leader Harold j. HIN
man. both admitted that the only rea-
son they voted for the measure was
because their parties had pledged them
10 it on their platforms. Assemblyman
Cuvilier felt sorry he had TO vote for Il
for the same reason, and predicted lI9
defeat at the polls.
Only Spinsters Want II, He Says.
"Only spinsters want woman SUI
frage." said Dr. Bush, of Chemung'
"The advocates of the measure have
been telling us we ought 10 nave II
because of the Western states when
have adopted it. But in all those states
YOU will find the male population
greatly in excess of the female. Tn Use
men want women there. They whit
wives. That's the reason they have
given the women the suffrage; it at
tracts them. But If they get some or
the suffrage advocates from these parts
those fellows out there will be very
much fooled"
Because Of DR.. Bush's remarks. j. A.
Smith, of St. Lawrence, came TO the
rescue Of the spinsters, telling Of the
noble work they had done as school
teachers Both Assemblymen jackson
and Hamilton voted for submitting the
measure TO the people. while announce
ing that thew were against II.
Among those who defended woman
suffrage were Assemblymen Schaap ana
Volk, the Progressive members. AS
semblyman Kerrigan, of Manhattan,
declared that the end Of trusts Woulu
be at hand If the women voted.