The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-03-27
S%UFFRAG|STS SEE
VICTORY IN DEFEAT
CLAIM RESULTS SHOW CAUSE is
GAINING AND ARE VERY
JUBiLANT.
SENATE VOTE STANDS 1884
More Than Majority Secured by
Friends Of Resolution, But Two
thirds Vote Is Necessary-South-
ern SoIons SolidIy Against L..

Washington, March q. - Woman
suffrage advocates lost their fight in
the United States senate for a resolu-
ton proposing an amendment to the
federal constitution giving women the
ballot. The vote was 80 for the meas
ure to "a against it, a two-thirds al
firmatiye vote being required for pas.
sage, and when it was over suffrage
leaders jubilantly pointed 10 the ma
jority Of II as conclusive proof that
their cause had scored a triumph in
defeat and was UNNECESSARILY strong
er than its opponents had ever been
willing to cOncede.
End of Spirited Campaign.
The action, following weeks of de-
bate 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 eli
max of a spirited campaign launched
here the day before the Inauguration
Of President Wilson.
Immediately after the vote, Senator
Phul " &OlOl dNO SOuGllI 10 IllTO-
duce a new resolution for a constitu-
tional amendment requiring each
state to vote on granting suffrage TO
women upon petition from 5 per cent
Of its voters. The senate went into
executive session before the senator
could get the floor, however, and the
resolution will be offered later.
The resolution defeated was the
first introduced in the present COW
gress. 1t was presented by Senator
Chamberlain of Oregon and the wom-
an suffrage committee later author.
lied Senator Ashurst to report it ia
vorably.
South Votes SolidIy.
Though otherwise the vote virtually
was nonpartisan, the southern sena-
tors, all Democrats, lined up almost
solidly against the amendment. They
contended it would complicate the
negro question in the state. or the
southerners only Senator Ransdell of
Louisiana, Sheppard of Texas, and
Lea or Tennessee voted for the reso-
luton.
Senator Vardaman led a 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 the right to negroes to vote.
With the negro question removed he
said he favored the granting of suf-
frage to women. His proposal was
defeated by AS to 10, and a proposition
by Senator Williams to give the ballot
to white women only was defeated
by Al to 81.
One Opposed on Principle.
h vote was preceded by a three
hours debate on the various phases OF
suffrage. Senator MARITIME of New
Jersey was the only member who stat
ed he was opposed to women suffrage
on principle. He declared the par
ticipation of women in politics has
failed to purify the ballot and that it
would be a sad and sorry day for both
and men when they we're given
the ballot universally.
Inc SpeeCIeS Vi suffrage senator's.
he added, had excited in his mind the
wonder IF they found objection to the
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 a blunder
to have passed it. Senator Townsend
it vas no blunder to have
passed 1t and added it was not neces-
sary to do injustice to the negroes in
to do justice to the women.
Senator Newlands declared he was
In favor of making this a white mans
country so as to shut out the Japan
csc as we'll as the negro, but ques-
toned the propriety of doing that on
woman suffrage proposition.
Mrs. Medill Mccormick, chairman of
the congressional committee of the
National Woman Suffrage association,
a statement claiming the ma
jority vote a victory.