The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-23
SUFFRAGISTS WIN
PASSAGE OF VOTES
BILL BY A TRICK
Women Force Assembly Com
mittee to Advance 1t in
Leaders, Absence.
SENATE Is NOT so
EASILY "CAPTIVATED"

St\N r. IL NOI ~
EASILY "CAPTIVATED"
A,n,<y. Feb. 22.--Both friends and
,oss II vuman's suffrage were claiming
victory IN Albany tonight. The former
care iubilant because they won the AS
s,mbly Judiciary Committee away from
.bs legislative leaders. spoiled the plan
N shelyc the Whi,ney-Rrereton constitu-
.,op,l amendment. which was beaten at
,hc noll, last November. and had the
c,n,ni,tee decide 10y u vote of IL to l TO
r.r,rt the amendment favorably.
HEADED hy Mrs. Norman de y White
house. president OF the stat Association
FOR Woman's suffrage. the advocates OF
,o,.s for women swooped down upon the
Assembly Judiciary Committee while 1t
vss N session and there and then de-
m.nded that pledges to support the
amendment. collected earlier IN the ses-
.on by Mr.. James Lees Laidlaw and
other leaders. be kent and that there be-
m more Juggling with the amendment.
The state Senate Judiciary Committee
had lust finished a hearing on the bill of
Senator Slater proposing to give the
som.n IA, right to vote AZ least for
Presidential nd Nice-Presldential cleo.
tors. and the suffragists were alarmed at
the attitude 81 that committee on the
bill. They und, that the Senate
did no, want the buck passed to II on
any suffrage proposition.
women Drma nd q Vote.
A, the time Speaker Sweet was in the
executive chamber. The women got Ia
the committee without delay and de.
nandei a vote. They said they had the
pledges there they were. n they
enumerated. The Speaker hal III under
standing that the amendment would not
b. reported. The women did not care
about any understandings contrary &c
The or, they had. There were the pledges
they said again, and vote the committed
must.
The women Won out. The committee
voted favorubly. and his insurcs III,
passing by the lower house OF the amend
ment When Speaker Sweet got back e
the Assembly he was met by Chairman
krigh, of the Assembly judiciary Com
mit.ee. who declared 'Ther, was moth
.rc else to do ". were captivated."
Succ. ssful at the Assembly Judiciar,
$500 -.
militant attitude and hurried back I,
the Senate Judiciary Committee room.
While the committee was in session
the women. in minstrel formation. sat IL
the corridor. every eye glued oil tn
entrance to the committee room. Their,
they sat for over an hour and said the,
would sit there as long as the com
ri,,ee sat within. When Il was dis
covered that members Of the committee
we're leaving by a sid door there was
scramble to guard that exit.
No Action on Bills.
Finally the women wore Informed h,
Senator Walters that no action woul,
b. taken tonight OH the Slater bill o
the suffrage amendment. and that tn
whole proposition would not bc acte'
u1on definitely by the committee for a
least two weeks. Then they left will
tie ardor Of their victory with the As
sembly committee somewhat dampened.
The anti-suffragiS,s were pleased a
the attitude of the Senate Judiciar!
Committee or the slater bill. while tn
advocates Of the bill were declaring tina
the committee vas playing II bill
aga.nst the other, for the purpose o
trelving both of them.
Mis-, Alice Hin Chittenden. pres!den
0 the anti sssociAtpn. supported b.
Lavy-r Everett i. Wheeler and Mis-
Lucy Price. a Nassar girl OF Cleveland
opposed the Slal.r bill. while Mrs. Har
not Stanton Blatch and Lawyer J
Hampton Dough.ity of New York spok'
IN favor OF II.
Miss Chitterden declared tina tn
Owe wHclm!ng defeat of the constitutions
amendment last raj indicated o
oIsivoly that the women of the Stat
d. not want the right TO vote.
Mss Price urged that the suffragist
Nerf not living up to good political prin
speH when they ONE here asking 20
fsisit'orS 20 override the decision o
1000 600 against suffrage.
suns Hind Opportunity.
~ so>sion after session of this Legis
h'lr" YOU were old il Was undemo
crate 20 withhold from the voters tn
oNl"i 'prity Ia pass upon the question q
Mn-hsr.' continued Miss Price.
You saNe them the opportunity. tn
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