The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1915-01-13
HOUSE VOTED
AGAINST WON
M SUFFRAGE
AFTER A DAY OF OaAToRY The
HOUSE VOTES AGAINST THE
AMENDMENT TO SUBMIT WON.
AN SUFFRAGE.

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OF representative Tuesday night by ;
vote OF 2O4 TO III refused to submit
to the states an amendment to til,
federal constitution to enlranchise
women.
The vote, the second in the history
Of congress on the woman suffrage
issue, came at the close of a day
Of long prepared for oratory during
! which the many speakers were lis
tened to with frequent evidence OF
approval or disapproyal by packed
galleries. The question was before
the house on the Mondell resolution
to submit a constitutional amend
ment providing that the right of suf-
frage should not be abridged be
cause of sex"
a t~o-thirds affirmative vote was
necessary to adopt the resolution,
IT was defeated BY majority OF
. thirty.
Party lines were not strictly drawn
in the fight though democratic Lead
er Underwood yoic,Ug the attitude
of his party that suffrage is state
issue, strongly opposed the issue
while republican Leader Mann was
one of the chief speakers for suf-
fragists
Enthusiasm mingled with detection
when Speaker Clark announced the
result and into the corridors from
opposite galleries filed the hundreds
of suffragists, with their purple and
yellow sashes and the red rose be
deckcd suffragists.
This was the second defeat OF the
suffrage cause in the national legis-
lature within year March ~ last
an equal suffrage constitutional
amendment proposed By Senator
Chamberlain of Oregon received
vote of 35 to 81 in the senate,
securing bare majority but failing
of the necessary two-thirds. How
ever, suffragist leaders Tuesday
night were not dismayed As they
left the galleries led by DR.. Anna
Shaw, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait and
other important persons of the cause
they declared that the fight was by
no means over, and that the suifra-
gist propaganda would be pressed
forward until every woman in Amer
lea should have the right to cast
ballot
"rhe result was what We expect
ed" said Mrs. Arthur NJ. Dodge,
president of the National Associl-
ton Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
1T means that the suffrage move
ment. fostered by hysterical women,
is on the wane."
During the earnest and, at times
bitter debate preceding the vote
Speaker Clark was forced to inter
rupt the speakers on the floor fill
the chamber with the deafening bat
teries of his gayel, and warn botn
members and spectators that order
must be preserved. Several times
he threatened TO have the galleries
cleared unless the disturbance sub
sided But the murmur of approval
and disapproval persisted as each
speaker voiced his support or op-
position to the cause of votes for
women"
The turmoil eliminated in a storm
of kissing that greeted speech
made by Representative Bowdle OF
Ohio opposing the amendment. IL
had treated the subject humOrousiy
and remarked that the women OF
Washington are beautiful, but they
have not interest in affairs of state"
Opponents of the resolution based
their opposition largely upon the ar
gument tha for the rodela COVER.
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suffrage would be at unwarrantcd
invasion of the right OF the indi-
vidual states to control their cleo
elections. and further on the con-
tention that there was no adequate
public demand" for this amendment
which showed it to be necessary"
Advocates of the amendment con-
tended that the widespread demand
for woman suffrage, its success in
the states where it had been tried
and the principle of allowing the
people to rule, justified the submis
sion of the proposal to the states
for ratification.
Preceding the general debate
there was debate for an hour and
half on a special rule providing
for consideration of the resolution,
which was adopted by a rising vote
of 2O9 TO 81.
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