The Washington herald., 1916-12-20
TIE IN SENATE Vote
ON REFERENDUM issue
Underwood Amendment Fails Tempo
rarily But Will Come Up Today.
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Senate in executive session. but Senator
Vardaman demanded a roll call on thii
proposition and the Reed attempt wal
sidetracked
A few minutes later. after it becam
apparent that the Senate would not vot,
on the Sheppard bill, Senator Stone, O
Missouri, prevailed on the Senators t.
go into executive session. A few minutel
later an adjournment was taken and
again today the prohibition measure will
be before the Senate.
Senator Underwood will get another
vote on his referendum amendment Tn
vote yesterday was in the committee o
the whole and the Senate. under tn
rules, may vote on disputed question.
referred to 1t by the committee.
1t was predicted early yesterday tha
the vote on the referendum would b,
close. A majority of two were though
to favor 1t and the votes Of Senator
Phelan, OF California, and Senator
Cnamoerialn were not expected to be or
the negative Of the referendum. Neithe
was that of Senator Husting. There
may be more Senators present toda1
and there may be a change Of sentimen
over night.
How they Voted.
The tie vote was cast as follows:
- AShiOSld dlh, banknedQ, Bryan
Culberson. Hardwick, Hitchcock. Hollis
Hughes, James, Johnson, of Maine; Kern
Lee. OF Maryland; MARITIME, Newlands
Ptttman. Pomerere, Reed, Salisbury
Smith, Of Arizona; Smith, of Maryland
Stone. Tillman, Underwood, and Will
Jams. Republicans. Brandegee. Capron,
Clarke. of Wyoming: Colt. Dillingham;
du Pont, Harding, La Toilette. oliver,
Page. Penrose, Sutherland, Wadsworth
Warren. and Watson.
Noes-Democrats, Ashurst Reckham
Chamberlain, Fletcher, Gore, Husting,
Johnson. Of S. Oak; Kirby, lane. Mar
tin Overman. Phelan. Sheppard, Shields
Smith, OF Georgia; Swanson Thomas
Thompson. Fardaman, and Walsh Re
publicans. Borah. Brady. Clapp, Cum
minis. Curtis. Fernald. Gronna, Jones,
Kenyon. McCumber. Nelson, Norris, Poin-
dexter, Sherman. Smoot, Sterling. Town
send and Works.
Before the vote on the Underwood
amendment the Senators perfected It.
They voted "a to 45 to allow women to
vote In the local option election. The
Senators. who opposed woman suffrage
were: Bankhead. Beckham, Brandegee,
Bryan. Culberson. du Pont, F1etcher,
Hardwick, James, Martin, MARITIME, Over
man. Swanson, Underwood and Wads-
worth
Williams. Of Mississippi. provided that all
voters must be able TO read and write
and, If taxpayers. have a tax receipt for
their Indebtedness to the District govern
ment. This carried. a to 25
Senator Kern provided penalties for
the purity of the election. One section
provides a fine OF from 500 to 1900 for
bribery. with from one to twelve months
imprisonment: another a similar penalty
for repeating: another a fine of from $500
to 1900 and imprisonment up to a year
for corruption. and a fourth, $1,000 fine
and from six months to a years impris-
onment for conspiracy to corrupt the cleo
ton.
The final qualifications for voters in
cludes all persons domiciled in the Dis
uict of Columbia who have lived here
for twelve months. This it was said
does not prevent employees Of the gov
ernment from returning to their home
states to vote in other elections
The Thompson amendment closing sa-
looms on election days was passed and
as the Underwood proposition stands a
local option election would be called
within sixty days after Is per cent OF
the residents had petitioned the Commits
stoners Of the District for It.
Prior to the voting on the bill there
was protracted debate largely consumed
oy senators Owen. OF Oklahoma. Reed
OF missouri and Thompson. of Kansas.
Mr Reed did not like the attitude Of
hshsaS on prohibition. He onined that