The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-01-11

GOES TO THE SENATE
FOR CONSIDERATION
It's Passage There Doubtful But Sup
porters Hope to Force Vote Before
Session Ends-Greene of Vermont
Against the Measure.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1I.-Woman
suffrage by federal constitutional |
amendment won in the house at Wash |
mgton last night, with exactly the re |
quired number of affirmative votes I
While members in their seats and |
throngs in the galleries waited with |
eager interest, the house adopted by a |
vote of pa to 1876 a resolution provid |
ING for submission to the states Of the |
so-called Susan B. Anthony amendment
for national acknowledgment of WON
en-.
But for the promise of Speaker Clark
| resolution if it was needed, the change
of single vote to the opposition would
| have meant defeat Republican Lead
| ar Mann, who went from a Baltimore
| hospital, where he has been under
treatment ever since Congress con-
vened, and Representative Sims of
| Tennessee, Just out of sick bed and
| hardly able to walk to his seat, brought
the votes which settled the issue.
| The house hardly had adjourned be-
fore the suffrage champions began tae;r
fight for favorable action on the sen.
ate side of the capitol. Recent polls
there have indicated that the neces-
9ary tw0-thirdS vote could not be mus
tered. but, encouraged by the house
victory and counting upon the influence
of President Wilson. who came to their
support Wednesday night, the suffra-
glsts hope to bring the senate into line
so as to have the amendment before
state legislatures during the coming
year They feel sure, at .1sast. Of fore
ing vote in the senate before tho
present session ends.
Advocates of the amendment had
been supremacy confident Of the result
in the house after President Wilson
advised the members who called on aim
Wednesday night to support it. They
were SO confident, that the close vote
was received with amazament, and
some of the opponents were almost as
much surprised When the first roll
call was finished unofficial counts nut
the result in doubt. and before the
speaker could make an announcement
there was a demand for a recapitula-
tion. Then the name of each member
and the way he was recorded was read.
The resolution adopted follows
Joint resolution proposing an amend
ment to the constitution Of the United
States extending the right of suffrage
to women Resolved by the senate and
house, two thirds Of each house con
. curing therein, that the following ar
tlcle 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 b(
r valid as part of said constitution
/ namely
e Article -, section l. The right q
e citizens of the United States to vot,
$ shall not be denied or abridged by til,
e United States or by any state on ac
% count Of sex.
Section ,. Congress shall have pow
$, er, by appropriate legislation, to en-
n force the provisions of this article.
$ Every attempt made TO amend tut
or language was beaten. Representative
ne Gard of Ohio tried unsuccessfullv :
re nut on it the same limitation carrie
to by the resolution for the prohibition
constitutional amendment. that it ma,
r he ratified by the states within SIEVE
IN wears from the date OF its submission
vi Representative MooreS Of Indian
TO sought TO have a referendum or speci
ne convention in each etate required. tt
rs Gard amendment was rejected. 100
ne 246, and tine Moores amendment, l3l
le- %.
e. The speaker watched the vote, pr
lIa pared to east his own into the hrea,
PIE If necessary. One more negati'
!, vote, he explained afterward. as
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