Arizona republican., 1914-03-01
FRENCH WOMEN
 TO HAVE BALLOT
Believed Suffrage Will Be Extended to Them in Local Affairs at Least Before Close of the Pres ent Year
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH I

3ffairs before the end of the present year, according to Ferdinand Bulsson. president of the Universal Suffrage forty members of the French parlia- ment and which has reported favor ably on the subject to the chamber of deputies.
 The general parliamentary elections this spring will decide whether suf- frage will be extended to women and if so, whether to the full extent of national suffrage or with limitation merely to municipal affairs. The question will be one of the first to come before the new chamber of deputies.
 When the question was brought before the chamber last fall, M Buisson alone was delegated to draw up a report on the subject, and his report has since met the entire ap- proval of the commission. It Is in part now before the chamber It in cludes translations of large portions of the debate upon the same subject in the United States senate and three maps of the United States showing the progress of the woman's move ment there in recent years. It points out that in all the counties where total or partial woman's suffrage has been in force during the last ten, fifteen, or twenty years, there is not single case of an attempt to re- wise or restrict the rights already granted.
 q think I can prophecy with a cer- tainty," says M. Buisson. that there will be a majority in the new cham Der in favor of giving the vote to women in France. We already have some 250 certain votes in the cham Der as it is constituted even at pres ent, and I feel confident the general | elections will return the extra fifty votes necessary for us to carry the house."
 | M. Buisson's report, besides deal- , ing with the controversial side or the question of votes for women, sup plies the machinery. approved of by the commission, for bringing wom- ans suffrage into force. This merely l words of both sexes" to an article of the French suffrage law of April, 1884 An additional article limiting the vote will be placed before the house for consideration. if desired. It reads. "The modification of the preceding article does not apply to the election of deputies, for which male electors only are eligible"
 "The adoption of the second article" says NJ. Buisson, Twill re- strict Woman's suffrage to so-called municipal affairs. It will, however, give women much more power in
 France than is generally realized They will, for instance, vote for the consel municipal, conseil general, the conseil d'arrondissemont, and have a say in electing the electors of the
 senate. The only right not given to
 them would be the right to vote in
 the election of deputies
 T should be ready to vote for the
 immediate granting of universal suf
 frage to women, but if municipal
 suffrage only is passed by the par
 liament, l shall be satisfied for the
 present Universal suffrage is bound
 to come later"
 Victor Hugo's tooth has disap-
 peared from the Hugo museum in the
 Place des Vosges. The prefect o
 the Seine was startled to learn this from paragraph in satirica weekly journal. and immediately de- manded an explanation from tho chief inspector of the museums de- rartment, who in turn requested ont from the director of the fine art section, who asked for one from tho director of the museum From tho reports of these various officials or
 each others action the prefect was
 relieved to learn that no thief hat operated unobserved in the museum
 under his charge. The relic, a some what dilapidated molar of heroic
 proportions, had been presented tC
 the museum by a former director
 Victor Koch, a nephew and fanatica
 admirer of his distinguished uncle
 M. Koch died at an advanced az.
 and was succeeded by Mir Henr Planes, who, while greatly admirins
 his predecessors devotion to tn, memory of his glorious relative. con.
 sidered the exhibit tasteless ant
 trivial, and simply threw it into the fire.
 The French ministry of marine ha: invited bids for raising the 1,OOt brass guns which have lain undis
 turbed for 222 years in the bay O
 Fort La Hougue on the Engisl
 channel The point was the seen, of the five days battle of La Hougu, in May, 1892, when seven warship. were sunk. The combined Britisl
 and Dutch fleets. under suprem command of Admiral Russell. after wards Earl of Oxford. consisted of &
 ships of the line. The French flee under Admiral Count de Tourvill
 numbered A large ships and nun Der of brigs and gunbcats. Afte
 their defeat by the allies, twelv, French ships with number O
 transports were cut down and burne,