New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-08
Majority in House Now
Favors Its Passage,
Women Believe
Federal Campaign
Already Planned
Delegation Will Ask Will
son to Submit Vote
Measure
lstan CorespondenceI

WASHINGTON, Nov. THE big ma
jority for woman suffrage in New York
State spells a two-thirds vote in the
House Of Representatives any time the
sufragists want to force a vote on their
Federal amendment resolution. in tde
opinion Of suffrage leaders here
The President will be asked on Friday
TO include the Federal amendment in
his legislative programme for the cpm-
ing session.
With women voting in their home
districts and determining whether they
come back 20 the House or not, it is
thought that few members Of New
York's delegation Of forty-three in the
lower house will run al unnecessary
risk by voting against the suffrage
amendment.
As for the Ohio result, the vote
against suffrage in that state q not
nearly as large as on previous tests,
and there are several Congressional dis
tricts in which the change is so marked
that it is thought votes for the Federal
amendment will be gained. The indi-
vidusl member Of the House, the suf-
fragists reason, is not going to vote
knowingly against something which the
majority of men in his district favor.
National Association RejOiees
There is rejoicing in the headquar-
tiers of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association. which has been
conducting o campaign discouraging
from a spectacular standpoint as COM
pared with the noisy methods Of the
Congressional Union.
The national association has been de-
voting more attention TO the stately
state method or obtaining the ballot
Tor women than the staging Of public
ity stunts, calculated more TO achieve
the front page than TO change votes.
The Upstate campaign has borne
fruits which few persons IN Washing
ton expected. Official Washington was
surprised By the suffrage vote in New
York.
ct @ the National American Woman
Suffrage Association, with it's eyes fixed
on the Federal suffrage amendment
nothing in the world could mean so
much right now as victory and votes
for the women Of New York" was the
comment OF Mrs. Helen II. Gardner, of
the Congressional committee of the ma
tional association. The votes of those
women vii, translate themselves INTO
votes Of Congressman, and the Federal
amendment is practically won.
Moreover, the New York sufragists
had already announced that whatever
the outcome Of the election they would
Immediately concentrate their forces
upon Congress, and there are 100000
women enrolled in the New York
Woman Suffrage party-women who
now are voters.
Not Discouraged by Ohio
The Ohio defeat does not discourage
US. The referendum in that state was
held on petition OF. the ants to reject
the Presidential and municipal suffrage
bill passed by the Ohio Legislature
last winter Eight hundred and twenty
seven petitions were circulated by sa-
loonkeepers, bartenders and brewery
workers, and in the four counties
where suffragists we're allowed hear.
ing BY the courts they invalidated 5000
signatures out OF 5000. The liquor
men won this election and the women
lost, but the women will appeal from
Ohio drunk to Congress sober We
have no doubt which way the decision
will iie.7
Some OF the women said il was difi.
cult 20 see how even Senator Wads
worth, husband Of the national presi
dent Of the ants, could refuse TO vote
for measure demanded by more thar
one-half of his own electors"
On Friday afternoon President vii