The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-01-12
Measure Receives Exactly Re-
quired Number of Votes
Necessary For Victory.
COUNT IS 274 TO 1856
In Beginning Fight for Favorable
Action In Senate-Expect Vote
This Session.

Washington, Jan. 12.-With ex-
actly the required number of affirm
ative votes woman suffrage by fed
eral constitutional amendment won
in the lower house.
Waile members in their seats and
throngs In the galleries waited with
eager interest the House adopted by
vote of 274 to 136 a resolution
providing for submission to the
states OF the so-called Susan b. An.
thony amendment for national en-
franehisement of women.
But for the promise of Speaker
Clark to cast his vote from the chair
for the resolution IL 1t was needed.
the change OF single vote to tlei
opposition would have meant defeat.
Republican Leader Mann, who came
from a Baltimore hospital where he
has been under treatment ever
since Congress convened, and Repre-
sentative Sims of Tennessee, just
out of sick bed and hardly able to
walk to his seat, brought the vote
which settled the issue.
Fight Begins in Senate.
The House hardly had adjourned
before the suffrage champions began
their fight for favorable action on
the Senate side of the capitol Re
cont polls there have indicated tlGt
the necessary twothirds vote could
not be mustered, but encouraged by
the House victory and counting up
Ola the influence of President Will
son, who came to their support, the
suffragists hope to bring the Senate
into line so as to have the amend
mont before state legislatures during
the coming year. They feel sure
at least of forcing vote in the
Senate before the present session
ends.
Advocates Of the amendment had
been supremely confident of the re-
suit in the House after President
Wilson advised the members who
called upon him to support it. They
were so confident that the close vote
was received with amaZement and
some OF the opponents were almost
as much surprised. When the first
roll was finished unofficial counts
put the result in doubt, and before
the speaker could make an announce
ment there was a demand for a re.
capitulation. Then tle name OF
member and the way he was re.
corded was read.
Announcement Of the vote was
greeted with wild applause and
cheering.
Women in the galleries literally
fell upon each others necks, kissing
and embracing and shouting GLORY,
glory, hallelujah."
The Resolution.
The resolution, as adopted, fol.
lows:
Joint resolution proposing an
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States extending tle right
of suffrage to women.
Resolved, By the Senate and
House, ETC., two-thirds of each house
ccncurring therein, that the follow.
ing article be proposed to the legis-
latures of the several states as an
amendment to the Constitution of
the United States wiich, when rati.
tied by three-fourths of said legisla-
lures, shall be valid as part of said
Constitution, namely:
Article -. Section 1.-The right
OF citizens of the United States to
vote shall not be denied or abridged
hy tho I1nited States or hv auy
state on account of sex.
Section 2-Congress shall have
power, by appropriate legislation, to
enforce the provisions of this arti
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