Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-02-02
ASSEMBLY HELPS
THE SUFFRAG|STS
TOOBTA|N VOTE
Passes Resolution That Will
Submit Question When
Senate Agrees.
Special 10 the Evening star.

TRENTON, Feb. 2.--The House last
night unanimously passed the resolu-
tion for an amendment to the Consti-
tuition that will give women the right
to vote The resolution now goes to
the Senate and if il is approved
there, as 1t probably will be, the suf-
frage question will be submitted to
the people of the State next Septem-
ber That is, special election Will
be called, and. whether or not women
will be given the right of franchise
will he put to q vote, and the ones
who win decide it will be the men of
New Jersey.
The resolution, officially known as
concurrent resolution No. !, was in
troduced by Assemblyman Peacock,
of Burlington, on the opening day of
the session, and was made the spe-
cial order of business for last night.
The actual vote on 1t was IS TO 0.
In spite of the pouring rain enough
women to fill the gallery turned our
to see the measure in which they
were so greatly interested go through
the House. They sat patiently for
an hour while the routine business
was conducted and then for an hour
and a quarter listened to a flood of
ora tory, as different members spoke
in favor of the passage Of the reso-
luton.
Just as the session opened last night
there was a noise in the gallery as
though someone had an electric
buzZer at work. After the buzzing
had been repeated several times, each
time growing louder. Speaker Godfrey
ordered the sergeantat-arms and his
assistant 10 20 to the gallery and find
out who was responsible for the noise.
The sergeant alarms made careful
search, but could not locate from
whence the noise came, although II
continued all the time he was making
the search. Finally it was discovered
that the noise was made by a loose
on the outside of one
of the windows. The strong wind
blowing against this weather-strip
caused noise like that made by
large buzzer Speaker Godfrey looked
when he found that he did
not have a militant sulfragette in the
gallery to deal with.
The motion to take the suffrage
amendment up for action was made
by Mr.. Peacock, who briefly explained
that resolution had been passed last
year and the year before and that
resolution faYoring women suffrage
was In the platform of both the Re-
publican and Democratic parties in
the last campaign. Mr.. Peacock de- |
,lared that he believed the majority |
Of the women of New Jersey are quail |
fled to vote.
James Hammond of Mercer County. |
then spoke for half an hour in favor |
,f the passage of the resolution, and |
said he hoped that at the polls in
August or September. whenever. the |
special election takes place, the wom-
en- of New Jersey would be given the
right to vote. Hammond covered
almost everything in his speech from
suffrage to the war with Mexico. in
cluding side excursions in which he
descr. bed the advantages of Trenton,
and also discussed department stores
of New York and Philadelphia.
Minority Leader Martin took oc-
,asion to poke fun at Hammond's
ong speech. Mr.. Martin continued
hat the Democratic party was in
avor Of women suffrage and intend
I'd to see that the law would be on
he statute book.
Assemblyman Barradale. of Essex, |
'ead from an old book on election |
avs statements of 10s years ago
hat all persons were entitled to vote. !,
N the book Mr. Barradale was quot !
ng from was a statement concerning /
In election contest between Eliza
1ethtown and Newark as to which |
should be the county seat of Essex
county. The statement went on to
ell of females voting at this cleo
ion, and there was much laughter
when Mr.. Barradale read these
words: Several females testified to
having voted several times under
iifferent names during the day and
night"
Assembiyman Ostrom, of Hudson, |
and the introducer OF the bill to
tax bachelors, was another speaker,
who talked on a wide range of sub