Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-13
SUFFRAGE BEATEN
BY large MARGIN
HOUSE REFUSES TO SUBMIT
AMENDMENT TO VOTE OF
STATES.
VOTE is 2o4 TO ia,
Two-TH'RDs REQUIRED
Party Lines Not Strictly Orawn-seo-
ond Defeat Of Question Within Year
Leaders Say Result Will Not Halt
Efforts-considerabIe TumuIt During
Late Hours Of Debate.

| Washington, Jan. 13.-The house of
representative last night by vote OF
204 to ia refused to 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 day OF
long prepared for oratory during
which the many speakers were lis
tened to with frequent evidence OF
approval or disapproval by packed
galleries.
| The question was before the house
on the Mondell resolution to submit
constitutional amendment providing
that the right of suffrage should not
be abridged because Of SEX
Beaten by Majority Of 80.
A two thirds affirmative vote was
necessary to pass the resolution; 1t
was defeated by majority of 80.
Party lines were not strictly drawn
in the fight, tho Democratic Leader
Underwood, voicins the attitude of his
party that suffrage is state issue,
strongly opposed the resolution. while
Republican Leader Mann was one of
the chief speakers OF the suffragists.
Enthusiasm mingled with detection
when Speaker Clark announced the re-
suit, and into the corridors from OPP
posite galleries filed the hundreds of
suffragists. with their purple and yell
low sashes, and the red rose bedecked
anti suffra gists.
Second Defeat Within Year.
This was the second defeat for the
suffrage cause in the national legis-
lature within a year.
March 10 last. an equal suffrage con-
stitutiona amendment proposed by
Senator Chamberlain. Of oregon. re-
ceived vote of So to "a in the senate.
securing a bare majority, but failing
OF the necessary two thirds.
However, suffragist leaders were not
dismayed. AS they left the galleries
led by DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait and other cham
pions OF the cause, they declared that
the fight was by no means over and
that the suffrage propaganda would be
pressed forward and onward until ev-
cry woman in America should have the
right to cast ballot.
The result was what we expected"
aid Mrs. Arthur NJ. Dodge, president
the National Associat ion Opposed
10 Woman Suffrage. 1T means that
me suffrage movement fostered by
.ysterical women is on the wane."
Often during the earnest and at
lines bitter debate preceding the vote,
Speaker Clark was forced to interrupt
The speakers on the floor, ill the cham
Der with the" deafening battering Of
his gavel. and warn both members and
spectators that order must be pre-
served.
Several times he threatened to have
he galleries cleared unless the dis
turbance subsidized. But the murmurs
of approval and disapproval persisted
as each speaker voiced his support for
or opposition to the cause of Votes
For Women
Bowdie Is Kissed.
The turmoil eliminated in a storm
Of kissing that greeted a speech made
by Representative Bowdle, Of Ohio. OPP
posing the amendment. He had treated
the subjest humorously and remarked
that the women OF Washington are
beautiful but they have 10 interest in
affairs of state"
Opponents of the resolution based
their opposition largely on the argu-
ment that for the federal government