The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-08-20
SUFFRAGE FOES
IN TENN, LOSE
BATTLE TODAY
Adjournment Is Forced by Rep
resentatives Favoring W0m-
ems Votes
FRAUDS CHARGES MADE
County Grand Jury Begins In
vestigation of Alleged I'M
proper Practices
FRAUDS CHARGES MADE

Nashville, Tenn, Aug. 20.-
Suffrage leaders forced adjourn
ment of the house today before
Speaker Walker could make any
motion to reconsider the ratifi-
cation of the suffrage amend
ment. ..
Opponents lost their rights to
offer a motion for reconsidera-
ton.
Suffrage leaders plan to make
such a motion tomorrow and
then table it, thus making it i'm
possible to change the action of
the house in ratifying the
amendment.
The amendment was ratified We'd
nesday, when Speaker Walker chang
ed his AYE" to Nay in order that
he might be in a position to offer 4
motion for reconsideration, but the
time for making such a motion ex-
pired today
After the house adjourned today
the air was filled with the strains
Of "America' and the song was re-.
peated over and over.
Suffrage forces regarded the vic
tory as won.
The motion to adjourned was offered
by suffrage leader and carried by
an overwhelming viva voce vote.
Failure of Speaker Walker to move
reconsideration was taken as an indi-
cation that the opposition had not at
tanned enough pledges to rescind the
ratification action. The anti-suffra.
gists sought to have the house ad.
j0urned until Monday but the suffra-
gists voted their motion down, their
movement being defeated by the same
vote that the ratification resolution
was adopted Wednesday, 40 to AZ.
Walker, at an anti-suffragist meet
ing last night, charged declared the
resolution would be reconsidered.
Forty-seven members signed a pledge
to this effect, and Walker declared he
would gain additional signatures. He
apparently failed in this effort
A county grand jury investigation
into charges that improper influences
had been brought to bear on members
Of the legislature in the consideration
Of the measure created a sensation
Bribery Charged
Publication by the Nashville Ten
nessean. and the Nashville Banner of
two afiidavits attributed to c. c. Wal
lace, judge Of the city court of Lewis
burp T'opnoccoo and Epnic n Mur
ray. of Nashville, general agent for
the federal land bank of Louisville,
KY. alleging that an attempt had
been made by a suffrage leader to
hribe representative Harry Il. Burn.
Of McMinn county, was
another sensation.
The grand jury. charged by Judge
j. d. B. Debow of the Davidson coun-
ty criminal court. lost no time in get
ting to work, and has had summoned
j. r.. Eichelberger Of Washington, D.
c.. publicity man in charge Of head
quarters here OF the naturalization
forces. Mr.. Eichelberger was before
the jury two hours, and it was said
appear.
Charges of the attempted bribery
of Representative Burn were not re-
garded seriously by suffrage leaders,
and many nti-ratifcationists were
frank to say that their views were
similar. Mr.. Burn was recorded as
voting with the suffrage opponents
on both roll calls on motion to
table the ratification which was lost
on a tie vote. and few minutes
later cast his vote for the amend
ment. One vote decided the issue in
favor of suffrage. The affidavits
charged that he was approached
during the interval between the vote
on the motion to table and the vote
to concur with the senate in ratify-
ing the amendment.
Denial Made
Representative Joe Hanover, of
Shelby county, alleged in the aft.
davit attributed to Murray as having
told Burn that if he would vote in
favor of ratification he would be
given "anything in the world he
wanted" and that "it would be worth
$4,000 to him." characterized the
charge as "no more than clumsy
effort to blackmail or embarrass
friends and supporters Of the rights
of our women Mr.. Hanover said
his conversation was confined to an
appeal to Burn to vote for suffrage.
Major G. l.. Daugherty, secretary
to Governor Roberts, named in both
q affidavits as urging with Hanover
that Burn vote for ratification. de-
clared Hanover did not intimate to
Burn that he would be paid any
amount of money or that he would