The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-12
All Unreserved Seats Filled
Before Session Is Opened.
INTO TWO HOSTILE CAMPS
Suffragists ON One Side of Hall:
Ants on the Other.
Congressman Campbell Speaks
in Favor of Amendment.

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rain storm failed to discourage a rec
orr breaking or, d in the house to-
day. At o'clock this morning the
first arrivals went into the house gall
leries to await the beginning of the
debate on the suffrage amendment.
An hour before the session opened
practically all the unreserved seats for
women were filled. In tie mems gal
lery there were many vacant seats.
When the women doffed their wa
terproofs the purple and yellow ban
ners and sashes of suffragists filled the
galleries with wave of color. A
whole block of reserved seats was
occupied by women wearing the
broad satin ribbons. Many brought
their knitting and needlework and
passed the time by working on gar
ments for the war sufferers in Eu-
rope.
The gallery to the left of Speaker
Clark's desk was occupied by suffra-
gists. On the right the anti-suffra-
gists. each wearing a red rose, knitted
ing the hostile camps was the mems
gallery.
In the suffrage gallery DR.. Anna
Howard Shaw, Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait, Mrs. o. H. p. Belmont. Mrs.
Pethick Lawrence OF London, and the
congressional committee Of the Ma
tional association were in charge.
Across the way were Mrs Arthur M.
Dodge, president of the National asso-
citation opposed to woman suffrage.
Mrs. A. J. George, Mrs. Daniel A.
Markham and the legislative commit
tee of that association. The galleries
applauded when DIR. Shaw and sew
e al other prominent suffragists were
invited by the speaker to leave the
public gallery and take places in his
Senator MARITIME. who pa4sed
through the house chamber. attracted
the attention of the anti-suffrage del
egation. The women greeted him
with applause. some waving roses. AS
he answered their welcome Miss Alice
Paul of the suffrage executive COM
mittee was cheered as she took ner
place in the gallery.
Promptly at II O'Clock the speaker 8
gavel fell and Chairman Henry OF the
rules committee presented the special
rule upon which II was agreed to al
low one and one-haH hours debate.
exclusive Of six hours provided for the
resolution itself.
Debate Begins.
ct shall support the rule because I
Oel1eVc q vote SnOulQ De given Ou lilly
proposal which has become national
ISSUE" said Mr.. Henry. But I be-
lieve this is purely a matter Of state
Jurisdiction. 1 shall never vote for
any amendment that proposes to take
from the states powers now reserved
to them, and to vest those powers in
the federal government"
Representative Campbell (Repub-
lican) spoke for the rule and the
Mondell resolution.
THE president and many of his fol-
lowers" said he, Insist that granting
the right of suffrage to women is one
that must be dealt with by the states.
He invokes the doctrine of states
sovereignty with the same enthusiasm
and confidence that others of his party
invoked that doctrine in favor of hu-
man slavery in other days. The presi-
dent as the leader Of his party. when
he charges the opposition with not
having a new idea in thirty years,
should at least find some buffer for
everything new that is proposed be-
sides the doctrine Of states sovereign
ty, surrendered at Appomattox half q
century ago."
AS Representative Campbell was
speaking. disorder on the floor and in
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