The Sentinel=record., 1915-01-13
SUFFRAGE
 DEFEATED
HOUSE KILLS HOPE OF AMERl GAN WOMEN FOR AN AMEND
 MENT TO CONSTITUTION.
ARKANSAS VOTES AGAINST IT

Secure Nationwide suffrage-Vote
 IS 2o4 to 174
 Washington. Jam 12--The house of
 representatives tonight by a vote of l POI to 17l refused 10 submit to the states an amendment to the federal constitution to enfranchise women. The vote, the second in the history of congress on the woman suffrage ! issue came at the close of a day of l long prepared-for oratory during which the many speakers were Hsten- l ed 10 with frequent evidences of ap- proyal or disapproyal by packed gal l lertes The question was before the house on the Mondeu resolution to submit constitutional amendment l rovidne that the right of suffrage
 louId not be abridged "because of
 sex"
 A tWothirds affirmative vote was necessary to adopt the resolution. IT
 was defeated by majority Of 3o Party lines were not strictly drawn
 in the fight though Democratic
 Leader Underwood. yoicing the attt
 tude of his party that suffrage is a state issue strongly opposed the resolution, white Republican Leader | Mann was one of the chief speakers for the sufiragists
 Enthusiasm mingled with dejec,ion
 when SEea6a. Clal> announced the result and ilfo tho corridors from opposite galleries fled the hundreds of sulfragists, with their purple and | yellow sashes aui the red rose be- | decked aptisUtfagists.
 This was the second defeat of the l sufmaee cause in the national leeis. lamre within a year. March 19 last an equal suffrage constitutional amendment proposed by Seu9t0r Chamberlain of Oregon received a vote of 35 to 34 in the senate secur- ing a bare majority but failing of ! the necessary twoth;rds However. sUfragist leaders tonight were mot d.smayed As they left the galleries led by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt and other | champions of the cause. they de. clarad that the fight was by no means over. and that the suffrage propa- lauda wound be pressed forward until every woman in America should have the rieht 10 cast ballot
 The result was what we expect ed, said Mrs Arthur M Dodge, pres ident of the National Association op-
 osed to woman suffrage. "It means | that the suffrage movement, fostered l by hysrerical women, is on the waue"
 The entire Arkansas delegatcn l Representatives Carraway. Floyd, l Goodwin, Jacoway OldGeld, Taylor and Wingo, voted against the pro r0sed amendment
 Often during the earnest. anl at times bitter debate, preceding the vote. Speaker Clark was forced to in | terrupt the speakers on the floor fin | the chamber with the deateaing bat terng Of his eavel and warm both members and spectators that order must be preserved. Several times he | threatened to have the galleries cleared unless the disturbance sub. sided Bat the murmur of approval and disapproyal persisted as each ! speaker voiced the support or oppos! 1 tion to the cause of votes for wo men,
 The turmoil eliminated in a storm of hissiag that greeted a speech mad, | by Representative Bowdle of Ohio. opposing the amendment. He had treated the subject humorously, and remarked that the women of Wash. ington are beautiful, but they have n3 interest in affairs Of state"
 Opponents gf the resolution based
 their opposition largely upon the ar ! gument that for the federal govern.
 ment to prescribe qualification for suffrage would be an unwarranted in.
 vas.on of Jhe riaht of the Individual
 states to control their elections. and 1 further on the contention that there
 vas no adequate public demand for
 this amendment which showed it to
 be necessary"
 Advocates cf the amendment con
 tended Chat the widespread demand
 foT- woman suffrage it's success in
 the states where it had been tried
 anu the rr'ncip'e Of allowing people
 to rule justified the submission of the propo-al lo the tates for ratification.
 Preceding tae general debate there