New Britain herald., 1918-01-11
SUFFRAGE PASSES
 HOUSE, 274 TO l36
Exact TW0-ThirdS Vote Sends
 Measure to Senate

Washington, Jan. 11.-By vote of ] ETA to 136 the house of representa- ] lives last night adopted the Susan B. ! Anthony resolution to submit the WO- ] man suffrage constitutional amend
 ment to the state legislatures for rat 1 ifcation. The resolution, contended
 for by suffrage leaders for TO years, ! commanded the exact number of
 votes thirds of those voting ne-
 cessary to submit a proposed amend 1 ment Speaker Clark who was fa- vorable to the resolution did not vote The vote was so close that the op- position fought hard against the ad- mission of the vote of Representative Joseph J. Russell of Missouri, who hurried to the speakers desk on the second roll call and demanded that he be allowed to vote. The opposition insisted that he was not in the cham Der during the roll call. MT. Russell proved that he had been present, and his vote was counted on the side of the proponents. Not satisfied that they had been defeated, the anti forces led by Representative Saunders of Virginia demanded a reorganization of the vote; that failed to change the re- suit
 The debate, in which the leading members of both sides participated, with Miss Jeannette Rankin directing the suffrage hosts on the republican side, lasted five hours. Many women found seats in the crowded galleries. Some were there two hours before the house convened. During the de- bate women knitted, but the leaders devoted themselves to intently follow ing the argument. Nearly every wo- man who journeyed to the house car ried a knitting bag. Acting under the rules forbidding bags to be car ried into the capitol, the guards seized such appurtenances; only few succeeded in breaking down the rule.
 Wilson's Support Did It.
 The vote, making the greatest na- tional victory ever scored by the suf- frage cause, came after a very hard and uncertain struggle. Backed by the support given to the resolution by President Wilson, and by the confer ence of republican members, suffrage champions began the fight with every hope of victory. AS 1t drew toward the close and the leaders saw that democrat after democrat had refused to follow the president their hopes began to wane.
 The galleries, which had been all animation, suddenly became serious, and some leaders whispered, we are defeated.'' The watchers were cleo trifed when Representative Russell broke through the crowd of members surging around the speakers rostrum and succeeded in having his vote re- corded for the resolution. Victory also could have come through the SUD- port of Speaker Clark, who had as- sured the women that he would be with them if his vote were necessary
 When Speaker Clark anrounced the final vote, the people in the galleries arose en masse and cheered; mem bers on the floor joined in the jubilation. Representative James R. Mann, the republican leader, who had left sick bed to give his support to the reso- lution, received an ovation along with Miss Rankin Fully a thousand wom- en congregated on the steps outside the house following adjournment and cheered with all the enthusiasm Of col1egians after a football victory. Effort to amend the resolution failed Representative Merrill Moores, of Indiana, offered an amendment to refer the resolution to a referendum of the voters instead of to the state
 legislatures. This was defeated, 131 to 272l While this amendment was be- ing| proposed a long protest against the resolution signed by Ex-Judge Gray, Thomas Bayard, Jr.; H. I. du Pont, and other citizens of Delaware was read.
 The only other attempt to amend proposed to limit the time for action by the states to seven years. This was rSH, J, was, offered by Representative Gard of Ohio, who urged that the same restric- tion should be placed on this resolu- tion as had been carried by the prohi- bition amendment.
 The Resolution
 The resolution as finally adopted, and which goes to the Senate for its action, reads:
 Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), that the following Article be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three-fourths of said Legislatures, shall be valid as 1 part of said Constitution, namely: ARTICLE
 Section 1.-The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be l denied or abridged by the United
 States or by any State on account of 1 sex.
 | Section 2.--Congress shall have
 power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provision of this article. After an hours debate on the rule 1 limiting discussion to five hours, the house adopted the rule, and the reso- lution came up for debate. The gal 1 leries had filled to capacity, mostly