The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-08-18
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
RATIFIED TODAY
TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE VOTED
49 TO AZ IN FAVOR OF THE
AMENDMENT

Nashville A. P.)-Ratifica
ton of the federal suffrage amend
ment was completed today with fav.
orable action by the Tennessee house
which voted 49 to AZ for ratification
This is the 36th state to ratify Civ
ing the necessary three-fourths ma
| jority. The senate ratified Friday
by vote of 25 to q.
Speaker Walker, who opposed the
dent Wilson az ceb?
amendment and telegraphed Presi-
dent Wilson a few days ago that the
men of Tennessee would not stulify
their consciences for political expe-
diency, or harmony, in an attempt to
secure rec onsideration changed his
vote to aye and moved reconsidera-
ton. This gave ratification a ma
jOrity of four votes, 80 to 46.
Walker was given the privilege Of
calling up reconsideration at any time
within the next two days. Adjourn
ment was taken until 10 a. m. to-
morrow.
How Parties Voted
, The vote stood: Democrats, ayes
30; noes, "a; one absent; Republicans,
Is, for; II against; two absent.
Will Issue Proclamation
Washington-(By A. P.-Secre-
tary of State Colby announced today
that he is prepared to promulgated
the necessary proclamation of ratifi-
cation of the suffrage amendment
when he receives the formal notifica
tion of Tennessee's action.
Ends Long and Bitter Fight
Observation-Disclosures of the
suffrage amendment to the Consti-
tuition ends a struggle which began
in this country before the Colonies
declared their independence. It will
eventually enfranchise 25,0O0,0O0 |
Woman suffrage first raised its !
voice in America in Maryland in 1647 |
when Mistress Margaret Brant, heir
If Lord Calvert, demanded a place
holder of mide extent. And
n the days of the Revolution Abigail
Adams wrote her husband Jehn Ad
ms at the Continental Congress
which was framing the laws of the in
ant nation that, eff in the new laws
,articular care and attention are not
'aid to the ladies, we are determined
0 foment rebellion and will not
odd ourselves bound to obey any
avs in which we have no voice"
Organized work for woman suf-
rage began in the United States
7ith the Woman's Rights Convention
n Seneca Falls, N. Y, in 1848, in
which was called by Lucretia Mott
nd Elizabeth Cady Stanton early
aaders of Massachusetts and New
'ork in response to the indignation
reused by the refusal to permit wo-
len to take part in the anti-slavery
onvention of 1910 From the date
that convention the suffrage move
lent in the United States began the
ght that lasted seventy years and
nded with victory Another con-
ention followed in 1852 at Syracuse,
Y., at which delegates from Can
da were present and it was there
nat Susan B. Anthony assumed
of the cause to which she
evoted her life
In 1869 the National Woman Suf-
age Association, with Miss An c
lony and Mrs. Stanton. at it's head i
as formed in New York and in the t
ame year the American Woman Suf-
age Association was organized in G
leveland with Lucy Stone and Julia b
lard Howe as its leaders. At first v
ffering widely in policy, the Ma
onal Association working to put a {
lffrage amendment through the fed t
al congress and it's sister organi- 2
ltion bending it's efforts to convert
e country state by state, the two |
later united under the n
ame of the National Woman Stuff f
ge Association. The Associations 4
i've for the vote was led in turn by t
rs. Stanton, Miss Anthony, DIR. An
| Howard Shaw and Mrs. Carrie n
napman Gait, the latter Of whom il
now it's president. Il
The ninetheenth amendment, which F
ars her name, was drafted by Miss F
nthony in 1875 was first in r
oduced in Congress in 1878 by SEN G
or A. A. Sargent Of California; and
is in the same language that the a
wv principle Of the national law t
ads Ii
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