Evening star., 1915-01-02
VOTE ON SUFFRAGE RULE
MAY COME January Z
House Then to Decide Whether to
Take Up Mondell
Resolution.

1t has been definitely decided by the
House committee on rules to presehS
the special rule permitting q vote Oh
the woman suffrage question January
IL. 1t will be the first time vote mas
been taken in the House on question
of amending the Constitution so as not
to abridge the right of voting because
of sex, and although there is consider
able doubt expressed in Congress rs to
the chances of getting many more than
a hundred votes for suffrage. there Is
scarcely any doubt that the special RUE
will be adopted Immediately.
Thus the second big question. OF
which the Hobson prob ibition reSolu-
tion represented the first. Will at last
find its way to settlement one WY or
the other in the House.
Will Present Special Rule.
Chairman Henry of the rules COM
mittee will present the special rule
January 10, and if not voted for on that
day, will probably make other attempts
until he leaves for Texas on January
IA. AS he will be in Texas, attending
the inaugural ceremonies for Gov. Fer
guson until January 25. the question
must be settled before he leaves or re-
main until late in the month.
81 will vote for the rule. as will nearly
every other man in the House.. said Mr..
Henry today. "and l will thereupon speak
against the Mondell resolution for wom-
an suffrage. do not know of any OPP
position to the rule in the House at an
The resolution Of woman suffrage is
by Representative 1Iondell OF Wyoming.
and is the first resolution printed for this
Congress.
Mondell Resolution.
The resolution reads as follows:
Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled (two-
thirds of each House concurring therein),
That the following article be proposed
to the legislatures of the several states
as an amendment to the Constitution Of
the United States. which, when ratified
by three-fourths of said legislatures, shall
be valid as part of said Constitution,
namely:
Article-Section I. The right of
citizens of the United States to vote shall
not be denied or abridged by the United
States or by any state on account of sex.
Section >. Congress shall have power
by appropriate legislation, to enforce the
provisions OF this article"
Protest From Anti-Suffragists.
A protest against the Mondell reso-
luton was received today by the rules
committee from Mrs. John H. Buck,
Hartford, Conn, chairman of the state
legislative committee of the anti-suf-
fragists.
I'VE protest against the passage of a
federal Constitution amendment for
woman's suffrage the protest reads
1T is in the power of every state which
wants wOmanS suffrage to have it and
recently within a few months the fol-
lowing states have defeated the meas
ure: Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware,
Florida, Maine, New Jersey, Michigan,
Minnesota. Mississippi. Missouri, Ne
braska, New Hampshire. North and
South Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina,
West Virginia and Wisconsin.
"1n Connecticut suffrage bill has
been defeated for forty-four consecu-
tive years. Less than 4 per cent of the
Connecticut women are asking for the
franchise and during the past three
years $4,000 representative women, all
of voting age, from all parts of the
state, opposed woman's suffrage"