The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-17
HOUSE SHIFTS ALI RESPONSIBILITY ID SENATE BY CLEVER
 MOVE BY DICKSON
Suffrage Advocates Score Important Point By Quiet ly Bringing About Vote To Adjourn Until Fri
 day Morning
By WILLIAM l.. GoRMLEY

. ' o uiy ENoPc- cial) )-Following one of the most clever parliamentary battles in the history of Ala bama the representatives We'd nesday afternoon shifted re- sponsibility of defeating or ap- proving the Susan B. Anthony amendment to the Senate of Alabama, when by a vote of 50 to 46, the House adjourned at 4:3O o'clock to 10 o'clock Fri day morning.
 The Susan B. Anthony amendment was on the house calendar as q special ordar TOT lV o'clock Thursday, and discovering .he opposition ys2s peacefully transacting the rollllsin& of the -house. the suffrage sssiS Socates, led by RepresS Sltative Dickson. started the ball to rollinG and-Ehea the parnamentary discussions were over tss l suilraslsts or Alabama had scored most important and far-reaching point
 The sudden beginning of the battle caught Ali Tunstall of Hale. Long of Butler and Green of Dallas with no de- Tense arranged, and on almost every point tney were ruled out of order by Speaker Merrltt. MT. Tunstall, however. made the efrort of the opposition to delay action on the decision to adjourn, but 1t was seen ne was making only a feeble effort 10 protect the suffrage opposition
 SENATE RESPONSIBLE
 By adourning until Friday morning the house shifted all responsibility of killing the suffrage amendment The senate had ooasted of the fact there were l9 sena- tors pledged to oppose the measure. and the poll of the house had never been made public. The suffrage side, led by MT pickson, decided to force the issue, and throw the responsibility of killing inc measure to the senate ard the ators.
 Business was transacted in the es1- manner until word came from the nses that 1t had adjourned The senatcfs the building, knowing they woulc coifs back at 10 o'clock Thursday to t ss ao the suffrage amendment The senat54s still were walking through the gob5!es when MT. Dickson of Jefferson msda fas melton, which then appeared to Ha dt little significance, that when the na&se adjourns this afternoon 1t adjouts 10 meet at 10 o'clock Friday morning
 The suffrage opponents were cs..s NN mapping so to speak. and the nssssoeN had been adopted by a vote of A M esG before MT. Tunstall realized what naa happened. He caught the true me fffa of the motion, but his construction aTas too late to save the day. h
 The parliamentary discussions ths b0 owed were amusing to the newe srs in the house. For about 15 minutpc fas opposition made a brave effort to ssa tha vote verified. Each time the tD0as tion spokesman was ruled out of ories rY Speaker Merritt. MT. Tunstall, alpAr4 ently speechless, and not knowing Ria steps to take. made motion after and each time he met with q, feat L- Long of Butler, opponent of suffrage, came to the assistance of his colleague, but he, too. could co nothing
 The debate had assumed it's most in- teresting stage when Representative Orr of Marshall county made the motion that this house now adjourn, He knew that the other motion would pre- vent the house from meeting on Thurs day. and the last motion would result in immediate adjournment. Again the op- position made an effort to prevent ad- journment.
 The vote on the last motion to adjourn, and which the suffragists claim resulted in their first victory, follows:
 HOW THEY VOTED
 To adjourn Mir Speaker of the House, Adams, Albright Alexander, Andrews, NiHolu AuutlH, bakef BarSalner, Blunt, Bracken, Brindey Calvert Carnley Col lins, Crump, Dansby, Deese, Dickson, Gilbert. Hall of Henry. Hall of Marion, Harrison Holmes of Baldwin. Howle. Ingram, Jones of Escambia Jones of Marengo, Lawson, Long of Sumter. Long shore, Milford, Mitchell, Murphree, Me Donald, Orr, Partridge, Peters. Pittman, Preston, Reynolds. Ross. Russell. Shaw Sparks. Tompkins, Whorton. Williams, Woson. Woodland
 Those voting not to adjourn follow:
 Allen. Benners Christian. Christopher. Clayton, Ciett, cobbs. Dunnaway, Ed wards of Dallas, Edwards Of Pike. Ellis of Bullock, Ellis of Elmore, Faulk, Fletcher. Graham of Autauga, Graham of Clarke, Green Griffin. Guy, Hale, Hawkins. Hollis, Holmes of Elomre. Jones of Montgomery, Johnson, Jordan, Lee of Butler, Lee of Perry. Lewis. Long, Matthews. Moorer. Oakley Oliver. Parker, Salter, Sherrod, Simp- son, Smith, Stewart. Stoddard, Truss Tunstall Waddell, VandeCraff
 It was predicted following the house adjournment that the senate would not .ake the responsibility of even consider ns the amendment. The measure comes up at 10 o'clock as a special order
 The suffragists were jublant because of winning their first skirmish with the opposition. The first battle was fought and won three hours after the joint meet pG, when women were permitted to dis cuss the suffrage amendment Speaker Merritt voted for adjournment. and this is taken as an indication he has come over to the side of the sufragists.
 Developments in the senate, while the lcuse is resting. are awaited with in frage association. M