Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-03
HIS FLOOR TACTICS
KEEP LEEDY FROM
BRINGING Up ISSUE
Antitrust Measure Abb
serbs Time of the Upper
Branch.
HOUSE COMMITTEE DEFERs
AMENDMENT UNTIL 1920
Page County Man Asserts Resolu-
ton Is Unwarranted and
Dangerous.
WILL RENEW FIGHT TO-DAY
Call Upon Sister States to Uphold
and Defend Right to Decide
Who Shall Vote.
HOUSE COMMITTEE DEFERS
AMENDMENT UNTIL 1920
WILL RENEW FIGHT TO-DAY
Call Upon Sister States to Uphold
and Defend Right to Decide
Who Shall Vote

Floor tactics OF Senator c. Walter
Mapp kept Senator Robert T. Leedy
from making n determined effort last
night to bring the suffrage amendment
squarely to an issue today in the up
per branch OF the General Assembly.
Faced with defeat in the House.
where the Federal Relations Commit
tee decided early in the afternoon 10
defer action in the matter until the
regular session of 1920. il evidently
had become the policy of the leader in
the Senate to let the amendment rest
Senator Leedy had introduced a
Joint resolution. in which he called for
the rejection of the amendment as an
un"arranted. unnecessary, undemo-
cratic and dangerous interference with
rights reserved to the States.
During the debate on the antitrust
measure, he made several attempts to
have the suffrage resolution brought
O'Clock. but had been defeated each
time under the leadership Of Senator
Mapp.
Ninpp Secure. TIoor.
His last effort was. to have been made
after the roll had been called on the
passage ofsthe antistrust bill. Divin-
tor from Page. Senator Mapp beat him
The Senator from .Accomac imme-
This was fought strenuously by the
supporters of the Leedy resolution, and
the motion was carried only after a
Senator Leedy declared last night
that his fight is not yet over and SEN
ator Saxon Holt backed him up by
saying that, unless the Ieedy rcsolu-
tion is brought up no other business
will be carried on today.
In the House quick disposition was
made OF the Susan b. Anthony amend
\ resolution
j. Hundley. declaring that, since schools
had been denied the right OF hearing
the same fate and go over until the
regular session in 1920. This was
adopted by a vote of : to 3.
Say Alabama Rejected Bill.
Martin l.. Calhoun, of the Southern
States Rights Conference. received a
telegram last night saying that the
Alabama Senate had again rejected the
Susan Su;s b. Anthony amendmSnt Am Ia,Sn by a
among a number of opponents of the
amendment who were in the lobbies of
the General Assembly yesterday.
The Leedy resolution follows:
Whereas. the Congress OF the United
States has duly submitted TO the Legis-
iatures of the several States the fol-
lowing proposed amendment to the
Constitution of the United States:
Article Section L. The right of
shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States or by any state on ac-
Section .. Congress shall have
power TO enforce the provisions of
this article by appropriate legisla-
ton" and
Calls Act Unwnrranted.
Resolved. by the General Assembly
OF the State of Virginia, the House and
Senate concurring, That the proposed
amendment to the Constitution OF the
United States he. and hereby is. re-
Jected as an unwarranted unneccs-
Sary. undemocratic and dangerous
interference with the rights reserved
70 the States or TO the people in both
state and Federal Constitutions, and be
it further
Resolved. That n copy of this resolu-
ton be filed with the Secretary of the
United States as the expressed will of
the people of Virginia as registered
In their Constitution and by their
elected representatives in the General
Assembly, to retain the fundamental
rights of local self government vested
in the States or in the people; and be il
further
Resolved. That we call upon our sis
ter states of the Union to uphold and
defend the right of each State to ae-
eide who shall vote for it's own Of
hcers,, and 10 oppose and reject any
amendment to the Constitution of the
United states that would transfer CON
trol OF state franchises to the Federal
Congress without the consent of the
people themselves as duly exercised
under their several state Constitutions