The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-04-11
W0MEN'S VOTE
BILL IS PASSED
BY n. Y.SENATE
Wins. 33 to 10. After Brown
Quotes Bible and Predicts
Defeat ut Polls.
MEASURE NOW GOES
TO 1917 LEGISLATIVE

ALBANY. April lO.-The State Senate
by a vote of 33 to 10 passed. the Whitney
Brereton constitutional amendment to-
night. giving women the right to vote
in this State. The Assembly already has
passed this resolution. II must be sub
mitted 10 the new Legislature Of 1917
and II favorabiy acted upon by that body
will be submitted to the voters again IN
the fall of 1917.
The Senate had been in session since
. 80 this afternoon. with brief recess
at . O'Clock. Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw.
Mrs. Norman de X. Whitehouse and a
handful OF assistants stuck TO their guns.
as they have done almost every day Tor
the past half dozen weeks.
They had suffered disappointment
after disappointment. but looked for VIC
tory tonight and hung on until they
got II.
Then all OF the women rushed to tele-
phone booths and telegraph Offices TO
send the glad tidings home that the op-
position OF the Republican leaders In the
Senate had been overcome and another
victory won.
senator Brown ReirWts.
Inc 1knt IN t1t VI i'i"
was successful despite the opposition OF
such stalwarts as Senator Elon r.
Brown. Republican leader. and Senator
j. Henry Walters. chairman of the
judiciary committee, that same commit
tee which week after week had the SUI
fragists nocking about its doors appeal
ing for action.
, Senator Brown started the ball on It's
last roll. lie smiled submissively III the
direction of Mrs. Laidlaw and Mrs.
Nhitehouse when he rose and announced
that he had withdrawn his opposition to
permitting the constitutional amendment
! getting upon the fioor of the Senate for
/ final vote. The Senator then went on tn
show what had happened In other States
where. like New York. the amendment
had been voted upon and crushed.
when a similar amendment was first
submitted in South Dakota II was beaten
by 3.2SS." he said. AN obliging Legis-
lature had II rssubn,itted directly after
ward and it was beaten l1.s14. In this
State IL was beaten BY ls4,ss+ last year
and according to the proportion In South
Dakota il will he beaten II resubmitted
In this state by 1o6.920.
"ln Ohio Il was beaten the first time
by $3.50 and the second time b! lS?9o3
According ~ the same ratio Il viii Ia
to9.aUO
"ln Michigau u was beaten the frs'
time hy $50 and the second time 10y
9614t
According 10 that ratio f. Viii IN
beaten a second time in New York stat,
by ?i,42O.423
MY arithmetic is too rust. 10 n.ur'
out general ratio on thes. three set
Of figures by which could be obtained th'
Al -. .
New York II resubmtted ! will leave
hat 10 the press"
Senator Carswell. Democrat. Of Brook
lyn talked against the amendment,
Were ne personally Inclined g. faNu
IT, which he wasn't no said, he wonl'
vote against the amendment because III
sentiment in his district was over
whelmingly against H. lie thought tina
the suffrage leaders were showing 200
generalship TO submit the proposition s
soon again after its defeat last year.
Senator SAGE reiterated his We
known opposition. lie said that II wa
too early 20 r.suhmit the amendment.
on the roll ca,, Senator Brown ci'e'
the biblical quotations of everything
in us time" and AL men are liars "
referred to Senator carswell a. tho Ed
mund Burke Of the Judiciary Committee
who was dodr!ng the proposition IN com
mittee. and inferred that many Senator
had been merely giving their word IN
suffrage in the hope that the amcndnen
itself never would appear on the hoor.
Senator Brown quoted suffracist /
his home district ~ Watertovn as pre-
dieting after the polls closed on eIect.o
A nigh, that only one man had stated h
= voted against suffrage. white the cour
, disclosed the fact that oso vote
against II.
" You see. IN this district alone thei
= were o6J liars AT least said Senate
{ Brown - don't mean tn intimate tina
=, there are 265 liars in this State, but d
dare suggest that some Senators in th
proposition have lied AT least 2s5 times
II The Senators who voted against ii
= amendment, were Brown, Cromwell
. Richmond: Lawson. Kings: Newton. li'
= ingston: Sage. Albany: Thwner. Dutches'
. Walters. Onondaga: Wicks, Oneida. RI
, pubicans. aud carswel Kings, m
Il Ramsperger. Erie. Democrats