Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1915-01-14
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
DEFEATED, 2O4 TO ia
During Day Of oratory on Question
Galleries Give Evidence of Ap-
proval or Disapproval

WASHINGTON. Jan. 13.-The house
of representatives Tuesday night by a
vote of 20i to ia refused to submit to
the states an amendment to the fed
eral constitution to enfranchse wom-
en-.
The vote, the second iii the history
Of congress on the woman suffrage
issue. cam" at the close of a day of
long prepared for oratory. during
which the many speakers were list
ened TO with frequent evidences of ap-
proval or disapproval by packed gal.
lcrics
The question was before the house
on the MOndcll resolution to submit
constitutional amendment providing
that the right of suffrage should not
be abridged because of sen"
y two-thirds affirmative vote was
necessary to pass the resolution; it
was defeated by a majority of thirty.
Party lines We're not strictly drawn
in the fight, though Democratic Leader
Underwood, voicing 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 suiTragists.
Second Defeat in Congress.
Enthusiasm mingled with detection
when Speaker Clark announced the
result. and into the corridors from op-
posite galleries filed the hundreds of
sufTraSists. with their purple and yel-
low sashes, and the red rose bedccked
antisuffragists.
This was the second defeat for the
suffrage cause in the national Iegisla-
ture within year. March 10 last an
equal suffrage constitutional amend
ment proposed by Senator Chamber
lain of Oregon received a vote of thir-
ty-tiVc TO thirty-four in the senate, Sc
curing bare majority. but failing
of the necessary two-thirds. However,
suifragist leaders were not dismayed.
AS they left the galleries led by DR..
Anna Howard Shaw, Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait and other champions of the
was by no means over and that the
suffrage propaganda would be pressed
forward and onward until every wom-
an in America should have the right TO
cast a ballot.
The result was what we expected"
said Mrs. Arthur VI. Dodge, president
of the National Association Opposed
TO Woman Suffrage. 1T means that
the suffrage. movement fostered by
hysterical women is on the wane"
Galleries Frequently in Uproar.
Often during the earnest and at
times bitter debate preceding the vote,
Speaker Clark was forced to interrupt
the speakers on the floor. fill the
chamber with the deafenlng battering
of his gavcl and warn both members
and spectators that order must be pre-
served. Several time she threatened
to have the galleries cleared unless
the disturbance subsided. But the MUIR
murs OF approval and disapproval per-
sisted as each speaker voiced his sup
port for or opposition TO the cause OF
votes for women"
The turmoil eliminated in a storm
of Kissing that greeted a speech made
by Representative Bowdle of Ohio op-
posing the amendment He had treat
ed the subject huTorously and re-
marked that the women of Washing
ton are beautiful, but they have no in
terest in affairs of state"
Gst Of Arguments.
Opponents Of the resolution based
their opposition largely on the argu.
mcnt that for the federal government
to prescribe qualification for suffrage
would be an unwarranted invasion of
the right of the individual states to
control their elections, and further
upon the contention that there was no
adequate public demand" for this
amendment showed IL to be "neces-
sary."
Advocates of the amendment con.
tended that the widespread demand
for woman suffrage, its success in
the states where il has been tried.
and the principle of allowing the peo.
pie to rule" justified the submission
OF the proposal TO the states for rati.
fication.
Preceding the general debate there
was debate of an hour and half on
special rule providing for considera.
tion of the resolution, which was
adopted by rising vote of 200 to 81