Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-03-20
PROPOSAL TO AMEND coN9riTu.
TON FAILS TO RECEIVE RE.
oUlREp VOTE.
DEMOCRATS OF SOUTH
ALMOST soLIpLY OPPOSE
Claim Amendment Would Enfranehise
Negroes and Give Blaeks Balance Of
Powsr-Wemsn Leaders Claim to See
Victory in First Vote in Congress-
Senate Alignment.

Washington, March 20.-Woman suf-
frage advocates today lost their fight
in the United States senate for a reso-
luton proposing an amendment to the
federal constitution giving women the
ballot.
The vote was IS for the measure to
"a against 1t. two-thirds affirmative
vote being required for passage. When
It was all over suffragtst leaders jubil-
antIy pointed to the majority Of one
as conclusive proof that their cause
mad scored & triumph in defeat and was
lmmeasurably stronger than its OPP
ponents had ever been willing to con-
cede.,
Today's action, following weeks Of
debate on the floor Of the senate, dur
ing which many leaders in the suffrage
movement pleaded for postponement Of
the final vote, marked the climax of
spirited campaign launched here the
day before the inauguration Of Presi-
dent Wilson.
Immediately after the vote Senator
Shafroth Of Colorado sought to intro
duce new resolution for constitu-
tional amendment requiring each state
to vote on granting suffrage to women
upon petition from per cent of it's
voters. The senate went into execu-
tive session before tho senator could
get the floor, however, and the resolu7
ton will be offered later.
The resolution defeated today was
the first introduced In the present con-
gress. 1t was introduced by Senator
Chamberlain Of Oregon, and the woman
suffrage committee later authorized
senator Ashurst to report 1t favorably.
Although otherwise the vote virtual
~ was not partisan, the southern sena-
tors, all democrats, lined up almost
solldly against the amendment. They
commended it would complicate the
negro question in the south. OF the
southerners only Senators Ransdell Of
Louisiana, Sheppard Of Texas and Lea
OF Tennessee voted for the resolution,
A statement issued by Miss Alice
Paul, chairman Of the Congressional
Union for Women Suffrage. regretted
that the democratic leaders in charge
senate allowed that measure to be
wrecked for the time being, by forcing
1t to a premature vote"
N'AssSS = oo1 1NoSu SAoS Vic uOpcu
that in the two or three months re-
naming before the session closes con-
Gress would reconsider its action.
Senators voting for the suffrage
amendment We're: Ashurst, Brady,
Bristow, Burton. Chamberlain, Clapp,
Clark Of Wyoming. Gallinger. Gronna,
Hollis. Hughes. Jones, Kenyon. La
Toilette, Lane, Lea, Myers. Nelson,
Newlands. Norris, Owen. Perkins.
Poindexter, Ransdel Shafr 9th, Shep-
pard. Sherman, Smoot, Stephenson,
Sutherland, Thomas. Thompson Town
send Works-35.
Senators voting against the amend
ment were: Bankhead Borah.t Brad
ley, Brandegee. Bryan. Catron, Dilling-
ham. Dupont, Gore, James, Johnson.
Lee Of Maryland. Lodge, McCumber.
Mclean. Martin, MARITIME, Oliver, Over
man, Page. Pittman, Pomerene. Reed,
Shields Smith Of Georgia, Smith Of
Maryland. Smith Of South Carolina,
Swanson, Thornton, Tillman, Varda-
man, Weeks, West, Williams-34.