Bisbee daily review., 1918-01-11
Suffrage Resolution
 Wins in LOWer House
 By NdrrOWest Margin
Susan B. Anthony Amend. ment to Federal Constitu- ton Passed in House of Representatives. Now In Senate.
CBy Review Leased wire)


 WASHINGTON. Jan 1G.-Wom- an suffrage by federal cOlstitu- IiOnsi amendment won in the house tonight with exactly the required number of affirmative votes.
 While members in Iheir seats and thrOngs in the galls-ies wait ed with eager interest. the house adopted by a vote of 274 10 Is5 a resolution for submiSsiOn 70 Ihe states or the SO-called Susan B.
 Anthony smsndment for national enfrsnehisement or women
 But for the promise af Speaker Clark to cast his vote from the chair for the resolution if II was needed the change of a single vote to the opposition you'd have meant defeat Republican Leader Mann, who came from a Baltimore hospital where he has been unGer treatment ever since congress convened, and Represe,tat.ve
 Sims of Tennessee. just out Of a sick bed. and hardly able JJ walk whic3 settled the issue
 Opens On Senate
 The house hardly had ad burned be fore the suffrage champions began their fight for favorable action or the senate side of the capitol Recent polls there have indicated thac the neces- sary two-thirds vote cOnld not be mus tered. but encouraged by the house victory and counting upCE influencs Of President Wilson W-.lo cane tO their support last nigh. the sUffrasists hope 10 bring the senase into line SD as 10 have the amendment before the state legislatures dur iHs the cuB:iT 2 year They feel sureat least OI fore ing a vote in the senate before the present session ends
 Advocates of the amendment had been sUDremely confident of the re- suit in the house after President WI son advised the members NTiIo csIled upon him last night to support is They were so confident that the close vote was received with amazemenc. Some Of the opponents were almost as much surprised
 When the first roll call was finished unofficial counts put the result in doubt, and before the speaker could make an announcement there NlS a demand for a recapitulation- Then the name of each member and the way he was recorded was cad
 Announcement of the vote was geeted with wild applause. Women in the gaIleies liteally fell upOl each others neeks, kissing and embracing. and shouting, ~Glory. glory hallelu- jah,"
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 The Resolution
 Joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution of the Unitetd States extending the right of suffrage to women Resolved by the senate and house. two thirds of each house concurring therein, that the fol- lowing article be proposed to the leg isIatuTes 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 part of said cOnstitu- ton, namely
 Article 1, Section 1-The right sf citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on ac- 
 Section 2-COngress shall have power by appropriate legislation to en- force the provisions of this article"
 Amendments Beaten
 Every attempt made to amend this language was beaten. Representative Q Gard of Ohio tried unsuccessfully to put on il the same limitation carried by the resolution for the prohibition constitutional amendment. that it must be ratified by the states within seven years from the date of it's sub mission Representative Moores of Indiana soughttO have a referendum or special convention in each state re- quired The Gard amendment was re- jected 15e to 246 and the MOOres amendment 13I to PIP
 When the final vote came on the re OlutiOn Representative Austin of Tennessee challenged the vote of Rep resentative D0minick of South Caroii- na. who appeared late in the roll call and said he had not heard his name called MT Dominick told the speaker he was in the hall and listening and did not hear his name called His vote was then recorded
 The speahSr Ndlcnt4 lAe Noles pre- pared to cast his own into the breach if necessary ~OEe more negative vote he explained afterward. as he chuckled over the victory. would have changed the situation and the amendment resolution would have been lost in which even I would have directed the clerk to call my name and that would have been just sufficient to carry it- Of the total membership of s35. there were 410 members wao voted. Their line up follows
 For the resOlutiOn-DemOcrats 104 Republicans 1s5. miscellaneous :. Tot al 274
 Against the resolutiOn-DemOcrats