The Sentinel=record., 1918-01-11

| drawing from men in the deferred
 classes where young men are needeed.
 The Gard amendment was rejected 159 to 246, and the Moores amend ment 131 to PIP.
 When the final vote came on the resolution Representative Austin, of Tennessee, challenged the vote of Representative Dominick, of South Carolina, who appeared late in the rollcall and said he had not heard his name called Mir. Dominick told the speaker he was in the hall and listening and did not hear his name called His vote was recorded.
 The speaker watched the vote, pre- pared to cast his own into the breach if necessary.
 "One more negative vote," he ex- plained afterward as he chuckled over the victory, would have changed the situation and the Amendment resolution would have been lost, in which event l would hay edirected. the clerk to call my name and that would have been just sufficient to carry it."
 or the total membership of 435 there were 410 member who voted Their lineup follows:
 For the resolutions, democrats, 104; [ r.I. Total, 274.
 Against the resolution, democrats, lO2; republicans, 53; progressive, l. Total, 136.
 Urgent orders had been given by the leaders to bring in everybody pos - sible.
 When Representative Mann walked slowly to his accustomed place as leader of the republicans, applause rang over the house, members from all sides rushed over to him and Speaker Clark broke a precedent by announcing from the rostrum that he was sure everybody in the house well comed him back.
 There were two women on the floor during the contest, Miss Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, wh oas repre- sentative of suffragist state, was accorded the courtesy of not only controlling one fourth of the time of de0ate, but of making the opening speech and Miss May Offterdinger of
 this city, who as clerk of the woman suffrage committee sat beside its
 chairman, Representative Raker, of California;
 | The house met at eleven o'clock this morning. an hour earlier than usual and began consideration of the resolution under an agreement to close general debate and begin vot- ing on amendments at five o'clock in | the afternoon It was 6:25 o'clock when the final rollcall began and just forty-five minutes later when Speaker Clark announced the result
 President Wilson's support is credited with changing many demo-
 cratic votes. The party divided all
 most evenly with a margin of two ayes Until yesterday it had been assumed that a large majority of tho | democrats would oppose the resolu-
 ton
 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. presi- dent of the National American Woman Suffrage association, said to- night
 "lt is an incomparable victory 1 which tremendously gratifies, though
 it does surprise Us. We have felt all
 along that the house could be relied on 10 indicate itself as the forward 1 looking exponent of democratic prog
 ress which America has the right to
 expect its great law making body to : bc. Not for a minute did we concede
 that the American congress would lag 1 behind the parliaments of Europe in the making of democratic history, We ! turn now to the senate with com plete confidence tlat our measure will b. passed by that body within a very l short time. From the senate We shall start upon our campaign of ratifica . l tiQns hoping that every state in the union vii ratify and knowing that thirty six will, New York among them We expect that most of the 1918 Legislatures there are only a
 few in session this year-will dispose