Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-03
ADJOURNMENT DEPENDS UPON
| MEASURES IN COMMITTEES.
Reception of Reports in Legislature Will
Determine Time-Equal Suffrage Work.
ers Find EnCouragement==Matters
Assignedfor Week==Hearings.

Back in our childhood days we were
Very well acquainted with a wonder
ful old lady who hoped nimbly upon
a broomstick and siooted up to sweep
The cobWebs cut of the sky.
Modern science jealousy informs us
thai the miracles of today far sur
pass the tabled incidents of yore, and
lidicule, or scorn to ridicule, the Lin
coin Beachey essays of Mother Goose.
Yet, through the anxious ranks of
equal suffrage workers, has flown the
word that an earnest, cordial little
woman in Augusta is even now WELD
ing marvellous broom with undaunt-
ed strokes against the murky skies
of their cause. and that rosy tints arc
breaking through.
She is Miss Helen \. Bates of Port
land, president of Maine Woman Suf-
frage Association. and she's a fighter
to the very topmost point of her five
feet, four. Since Wednesdays oppo-
sition in the House she has carried
the battle into the camps of the
enemy in a remarkable manner, and
Messis. Ncwbert and Scates are taxed
to the limit of their political astutc
ness to hold their harried forces in
line 1t is currently understood that
two who voted against acceptance of
the report of the judiciary committee,
ought to pass" have promised to
support submission oil the constitu
tional amendment to the people. The
Democrats are known to be in doubt
as to their wisdom in attempting to
make it a party issue. Several have
admitted receiving word from home"
sadly lacking in commentator. Fur
Their indecision is caused by rumors
that VIM. r. Pattangall is angered
by the stand of the Democrats and
may take q hand in the affair, and by
the fact that ex-Gov Frederick
W. Plaisted has come out with the
statement that ha does not see how
any member of the party can refuse
To submit the resolve to the people"
The final test will come this week
upon final passage of the resolve for
submission to the people two
thirds vote of the House will he need
ed to secure this passage. The Senate
appears to be. safe. The vote upon
acceptance qf the report, hast Wednes-
day, in Yhe2 House resulted IS to 50,
tareatenix vi defeat if this lineup were
continuc eys2 being. two thirds
Miss gstesa SAYS. syrhas tell us we
are. .hbH 10 force som gs11ing upon
TIE Msyhen Of Maine wfrfSb is not
wantvN Does anF @oflaR ! have to
vote Gshe. does not want fo2 They
say Ne are eniys6 per cent, or some
sucHSabsSirasprus5prtion. OF thesywom4 4
en- of fuia{ pd draw terrifying pic
lures haited men and short
haired onaks'' who. viii invade our
horny 70 make MS vote. Yet adyfces
from the highest. officials and Leading
stateJ fhen or TIE 10 states which have
granVfl equal suffrage prove the faI.
sity 81 such claims These Legisla-
tors cahnct ia.auaid to trust the peo-
pie weo elected them Miss Bates
will Itmain Sin Augusta until the
HousJ has aecided
Twelve WERE absent or not voting,
lasT "Wednesday. but it is believed that
lof these VIII vote in the final ac-
ti8n. Ramsay of Bhine is i'll and Wise
otlAinfiford is confined by broken
k ne Others Bragdon of Sulh-
v; 4r( n, Morse, Pendleton,
r Is f&&ep9. Swift and Umphrey
a liicRnH Maxwell and Put
nd ennainirIg two, are Demo-