Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-03
Opponents Equal Suffrage Waste Valuable Time in
 Effort to Defeat Bill.
FIRST FILIBUSTER
 FOOLISH, FAILURE
Even After Vote Showing That House Stood 6f to 94 for Riggs Measure, Hardage and Followers Pr0lOng
 Time. Wasteing Tactics.

filibuster of the present session of the house was precipitated at 10 o'clock this morning when Represen- tative Riggs called up his bill to per init women to vote in primary cleo tions, to concur in senate amend ments. The filibuster failed, the house concurred in the amendments, and the measure will be called up for final passage tomorrow or Monday.
 For two hours after the bill was called up pandemonium reigned in the hall of the house of representatives. The opponents of woman suffrage, led by MT. Hardage of Clark, MT. Ellis of Randolph, MT. Gentry of Hampstead, Mir. Waggoner of Lonoke and others, made losing but a determined fight against the rising tide of suffrage, and at 12 o'clock, when recess abated the storm, the speaker declared that all the senate amendments to the bill had been concurred in. They are as follows:
 To strike from the title of the bill the words "and declaring an emer- gency."
 To strike the emergency clause from the bill.
 To provide that before woman is permitted to cast her vote she shall make affidavit that she is of the same political faith as the party holding the election.
 MT. Riggs and others, speaking on behalf of the proponents of the bill, asked that the house concur in the amendments, saying that they were acceptable, and that to refuse to con- cur would mean the killing of the bill. since it would practically be inn possible at this late day to get the bill through the senate.
 For two hours there was parlia- mentary wrangle that would defy de- scription. There were amendments, substitute amendments, and amend mcnts to the substitutes; motions to adjourn, to postpone, to table, to in definitely postpone, appeals from the chair and appeals laid on the table, to reject, to adopt, to non-concur, to enforce the rule to put everybody off the floor and out of the hall except those who had right there.
 Continue Fight After Being Whipped.
 The first actual test came on roll call on a motion made by MT. Hard age to non-concur in the senate amendment to strike the words "and declaring an emergency" from the title of the bill. This finally failed of adoption by vote of "A to GA. Although overwhelmingly beaten, the opponents despite that the calendar is crowded with senate bills and ap- propriation bills with only four and half working days after today, con- tinued their tactics to delay the vote on the bill
 The greater part of the time. more than half the members of the house were on the floor yelling points of order and motions and counter mo- tions at the top of their voices, fill ing the aisles and crOwding around the clerks desk in front of the speak CTS stand. It was amidst all this con- fusion worse confOunded that Speaker Cazort ruled motions that were be- ing made were dilitory in their na- ture, and, refusing to entertain them further, ordered the clerk to proceed with the reading of the amendments. Above the tumult and the uproar it was possible to tell by the speakers actions that he was attempting to put the motions on the amendments. and a thunderous "aye" reverberated through the capitol. The speaker an nounced the concurrence in the amendments, and at 12 o'clock the storm was calmed by recess until 2 D. m.
 How They Voted.