The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-20
SENATE DEFEATS AMENDMENT RESOLUTION BY A BARE MA
 JoRiTY OF MEMBERS.
COUNT STOOD 34 10 8
Would Have Required a Two-Thirds Vote, However, in Order to Pass the solution-Women Encouraged in Defeat.

Washington, March 19-Woman suffrage advocates today lost their fight in the United States senate for a resolution proposing an amendment to the federal constitution giving wom- en the ballot The vote was 35 for the measure to 34 against it, two thirds affirmative vote being required for passing, and when it was over suf- fragist leaders jubilantly pointed To the majority Of one as conclusive proof that their cause had scored a triumph in defeat and was immeasur- urably stronger than it's opponents ever had been willing to colcede.
 Today's action, following wrEs of debate on the floor of the senate, dur ing which many leaders in the suf- frage movement pleaded for postpone ment of the final vote, marked the climax of a spirited campaign launch ed here the day before the inaugura- tion of President Wilson.
 Immediately after the vote, Senator Shafroth of Colorado sought to intro duce a new resolution for a constitu- tional amendment requiring each state to vote on granting suffrage to won en, on petition from per cent of it's voters. The senate went into eXecu- tive session before the senator could get the floor, however, and the reso- lution will Be offered later.
 The resolution defeated today was the first introduced in the present congress. It was presentei by Sen ator Chamberlain of Oregon an the woman suffrage committee later au- thorized Senator Ashurst to report favorab'y.
 Though otherwise the vote virtually was non-partisan, the southern sena' tors. all democrats, lined mp almost solidly against the amendment They contended it would complicate the negro question in the states. Of the southerners only Senators Ransdell, Louisiana; Sheppard, Texas, and Lea, Tennessee, voted for the resolution.
 Senator Vardaman led movement among the friends of woman suffrage in the south to repeal the fifteenth amendment to the constitution by which the states are prohibited from denying negroes the right to vote With the negro question removal, he said, he favored the granting of sui frage to women. His proposal was defeated, 49 to 19, and a proposition by Senator Williams to give the ballot to white women only was defeated, Al to q.
 The vote was preceded by a three hour kaleidoscope debate on the va rious phases of suffrage Senator Maritime of New Jersey was the only member who said he was opposed to woman suffrage on principle. He de- clared the participation of women in politics had failed to purify the ballot and that it would be a sad and sorry day for both women and men when they were given the ballot universally.
 The speeches of suffrage senators, he added, had excited in his mind the wonder if they found objection to the Savior for not choosing six of the apostles from among the women.'
 Senator Gallinger declared it would be a crime to repeal the fifteenth amendment, even if it were blunder to have passed it. Senator Townsend insisted it was no blunder to have passed it, and added it was not neces- sary to do injustice to the negro to do justice to women. Senator New lands declared he favored making this a white mans country so as to shut out the Japanese as well as the negro, but questioned the propriety of doing that on a woman suffrage proposition.
 Mrs .Medill Mccormick, chairman of the congressional committee of the congressional committee of the Ma tional American Woman Suffrage As sociation. issued a statement tonight claiming the majority vote as vic tory.
 For the first time in fifty years, she said, the women of America dem onstrated their impression upon the United States senate. It is sign Of the times and it portends that all womanhood in this country will be emaneipated within this generation.
 A statement- s.by Miss Alice Paul. chairman of the congressaonai union for woman suffrage. regretted that the democratic leaders In charge of the suffrage amendment in .tba cauatn aIlawoa that YneaQurp 10