Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-04
VOTES FOR WOMEN
| IS PUT OVER Until.
JANUARY SESSION.
Upper House Declines to
Take Action on Anthony
Amendment.
DELEGATES TURN DOWN
MEASURE BY 81 TO II.
Crowded Galleries Witnesses
Sharp Battle Waged on
Assembly Floor.
WILLIS FLAYS COLLEAGUES
Goodrich Accuses Mapp and West
With Playing Petty Politics to
Stavc Off Defeat.
DELEGATES TURN DOWN
MEASURE BY 81 TO II.
WILLIS FLAYs COLLEAGUES
Goodrich Accuses Mapp and West
With Playing Petty Politics to
Stavc Off Defeat,

After one OF the fercest forensic
battles in the history of the virginia
Senate. that body at II o'clock lax.
night finally refused to reconsider the
vote by which it had in the afternoon
decided to postpone indefinitely con.
sideration OF the Leedy resolution dc.
ciarnE the Susan B. Anthony suffrage
amendment TO be an undemocratic in
terferenec with rights reserved 10
the States. The vote for postpone
ment was eighteen to fifteen; that
declining to reconsider was nineteen
to fifteen -
Just as the Sight had begun to rago
Delegates. without debate, passed TIE
same resolution by a vote Of sNty-one
,od1 to twssnty,one Delegate Holman Wills,
practically every rule of parliamentary
procedure In an effort to stem the tide
onnaei,IaIp dpr q sap at the amendment. but the
every impeachment. ..' - J ~
y crowded gallery witnessed the
sasS won D,0tH1y ths Mhtea ho,a la
sd Mdea endes ss fIs oar Rsadsp Rss sprieS W battle
ieagues's action. declaring many or
them would live to see the day when
Rey haa gven ssTss the
to ratify the amendment.
Excitement mt Fever Heat.
III, In the Senate excitement ran TO fever
gait Racr both From SH the ,he 0of tms snd Ss
o'Conor Goolrick fired the opening gun
for the Leedy resolution Until final
af'.on az nrsm was i,n taken; standing room was
tors Mapp and West were playinr
petty politics in attempting to hold OF
denied President Wilson was accused
OF executing an about face on the ques-
ton OF woman suffrage by Federal
The outstanding feature of the situa-
ton Is that Virginia has failed to
ratify or reject the amendment and that
session Of 1920. with an apparently in
surmountaole sentiment agaip@ It,
Vote Cast In House, ~
The vote, in the House on the adop-
amendment as an unwarranted uf-
necessary democratic and dangerous
interference with the rights reserved
the States, stood as follows:
Ayes-.nderson. William A.. Beat
tie, Roschen. Bowles. Brown, j. Gala
CAMP May grogn j. sinelair Runtin. Burke.
son. Dillard. Dodson. Easley, Elan.
9;iInTn' EXans' c!oaShE c!FisS5hgEh, Flanagan. Fuller.
Deane. Hutcheson. Joyce. MarshaI,
McNutt. Mitchell. Murray. Musrravs
RoIFtan RoTFiS, ozlln Rn.,a; s;1sand; Ramsay; Raw.
Snead, Snow. Sproul. stenhen sn,,
Stuart. Stubb. r. H; Taylor, TIFFANY.
81.
Noes-Anderson. X. A: Brewer. cat
.eu' Cato. Davis: Gillian. Gilmer, Cor
HGn; manr HeMnd,ieya Ma,sya Hundley. r. j.; Jones.
Smoot. Williams. Wills. Winston ,s, ana
Wilbur e. Hall did no, ge, his vote
he wished to vote No" and the st.ist ansl
ment Will appear in the journal. Deie-
gate Chase was paired with Delegate
the nths. man. me the . hrst voting AYE" ana
one 9ewn vot;ns ana xSo MSSo' C., also paired: the
Vote In the Senate.
me vote in the Senate refusing TO
reconsider postponement was as foi.
SS,Ayes-Addiscn. Andrews. Barham
Booker, Cannon. Garrett Goolricn
GipIh, Gnnn Henins. Holt, Keith. Leedy.
Noes-Allen. Bowers. Conrad. Cor!
nau; na,; Eariy: Eay: Ferguson. Goodloe. Ora
EHatt. Hi. jordan. Mapp. Mathews. Mitchell.
WsIh:r INsTn: k@1nsrtson, @, Thornton, Trinkie.
The voters on the Senate reso,p,,o,
OF senator Leedy, the same resolution
dsspi;s,, ds PIsssd by the House. was also In
,postpoHeu 10y the Senate by
Previous to thes taking OF th. Wi.
.ast night speeches on woman suts
Trase were made by Senators TrinE,e
nseoy and Robertson. Senat tor Trinkis
advocated suffrage. Senator Leedy On
posed II and Senator Robertson cr-
Piained that he was opposed 10 RI.
ederal amendment. although he t.it
hound by promise to Senator Mann,e
No.e TO POSTPONE consideration of ,hs
sun rage mater to the next session.
Debate nesins Early.
Ihe suffrage debate began earIv 4,
convened, senator waIter E ns ASSisan Ssna,s
on question of personal priyiieeH'
arose and said that in published re-
port he had been Incorrectly ouotsa
as having favored the propositjnn -
invite Glenn f. Plumb to address
General Assembly. He called M
Senate's attention to the fact thatShe
nad t protected against such an inyitas
tlon being extended. After this. Sena &
!or Z. OConnor Gooirick moved fhas
Ihe suffrage resolution be taken 'us ";
!. 4. n and that final vote on iS t,s I:
taken by p. NJ Senator a. wsitSr
Mapp then moved that this motioI, Ss
nseSniseis sus Wst ,yIss poss'poned and thus tSs
Senator Gooirick dcclarad ~ "a ~