Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-01-10
PRESIDENT GIVES
HIS APPROVAL TO
SUFFRAGE CAUSE
States Position TO Delega-
tion Which Calls at
White House.
HE ADVISES DEMOCRATS
TO SUPPORT AMEND NDMENT
Republicans, in Caucus, Call
Upon Members Of Party to
Lend Their Aid.
sUFI'RAGISTS ARE JUBlLANT
for Vote This Afternoon, Re
gartlcti. as Certain.

WASIiiNGTON. Januar" a.-Prcsidcnt
Wilson came on. tonight in favor OF
the nation wide woman suffrage amend
mcnt. 4 vote on the bin Will be taken
in tho House a. > O'clock tomorrow
afternoon. The President announced
his support Of the ainc nducnt TO a
committee headed h. Representative
Taylor. or Colorado The committee
issued the following statement. on
leaving The White House:
The committee found that tho
President had not felt at liberty 10
volunteer his advice TO members OF
Congress in this important matter:
that when VIC sought his advice he
very frankly and earnestly advised us
20 vote the amendment as act OF
right and justice to tho women OF the
country and o. the world
Republicans OF tho House I'm confer
cncc la,c tonight adopted ny uaan,-
nous vote a resolution urging Ecpubll-
can members 10 support the Federal
amendment "in 50 far as the? can do
50 consistently with the!- conscience
and the attitude ot their constituents
Tho resolution introduced b. Repre-
sentative AIonicu. q Wyoming was
iiibus,ercd against for more than an
hour on point Of no quorum. hut tho
opposition was confined 10 a fen rem-
hers. and they voted for its adoption
on the roll call.
nILLr SUNDAY no op.N
SESSION WITH PRAYER
E.ily Sunda:- Is scheduled 20 open tic
House session with prayer to-morrow.
lie had told close friends hc Intended
70 -: n word or so for the amendment.
aud that, dcsritc the fact that matters
before the House for cons Iteration are
never thus mentioned. Now /, seems
l.l;cly that Eilly can 90 ahead without
offending a Grcn, number Of opponents.
The demand FOR tickets - tho gal
l"rics has exceeded even the days when
the Trcsidout has been sch h-du;od 10
speak. Women from every par; or
the country are demanding ot their
representatives, that they be given
chance 10 soc the last chapter OF a
fight III which many OF them have
been engaged for a quarter of a cen
turr.
Woman suffrage leaders, claied over
tho Presidents action, issued state
ncnts tonight by the dozen. Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait. president q, the
AMERICAN W oman Suffrage .N5-
sociaticn. said:
we arc thrilled by tho Presidents
statement. Most OF all do VIC apprc-
ciatc his setting forth that tho pas
saEo OF the amcndmcut~;s an act OF
right and justice at this time 10 the
women OF the world. Tho Presidents
statement Is tho most important he
mas yet made on the suffrage question.
aud. coming when it docs. ranks as
war uttcrauce with the statement of
Premier Lloyd George. Mr.. Asauith and
tho Frcfnicr OF Canada on this same
subject"
Miss Alice Paul. head OF tho wo-
mans party. who. with others. served
ail sentences and went on a hunger
strike for sc-caiicd pckctinS Of ,be
White House in behalf OF tho suffrage
amendment, said:
1T is difficult 10 express our graft
iication at the Presidents stand. For
ioIr years We have strivcn to secure
ms support for the national amend
mcnt. for VIC knew that this and nc--
haps il alone would insure ms sue
cess"
PASSAGE or AMENDMENT