Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-13
BILL IS PASSED
BY BOTH HOUSES
Delegates Accept Senate Bill
Providing Necessary Ma
chinery by 90 to II.
NO NEED FOR EXTRA SESSION
Measure Held Constitutional by
Attorney-General Saunders
Goes to Governor.
NO NEED FOR EXTRA SESSION

BY vote OF ei TO IL the House
yesterday afternoon passed Senate bill
No. 32o. providing the necessary ma
chinery TO enable women TO vote In
tho event OF ratification OF the An
thony, or nineteenth. Federal suffrage
amendment The measure. which al
ready had passed the upper branch OF
tho Virginia General Assembly. is
purely PROVISIONAL and should thirty
six States not place their stamp OF ap-
proya. the Federal amendment,
will not be operative.
I The bill. which had twenty-three pa
irons in the Senate, extends the right
OF suffrage to women. assesses state
eapitation tax on those privileged to
vote and prescribes the qualifications
OF members OF the fair Sex entitled TO
vote for all officers elective By the peo-
pie and the manner in which they may
register and vote.
Delegates Ozlin. OF Lunenburg: Glib
son, Of Cuipeper: Gordon. OF Louisa:
Hunter, OF King George, and Willis.
Of Roanoke City. spoke briefly in ad
heard in opposition. II was that OF
Delegate McNutt. OF Rockbridge.
Mr. Ozlin stressed the fact that the
measure was purely provisional and
operative only IN the event that thirty
elk states ratified the Federal suffrage
amendemnt- Unless such machinery is
provided. he said. an extra session OF
the Virginia General Assembly is
threatened.
Government Action ForestaIIed.
Another danger that threatened. In
argued the Delegate from Culpeper, lay
in the fact that unless Virginia acted
tho Federal government. in al likei-
hood, would step in and provide the
| necessary machinery 10 enable the
/ women OF Virginia to vote when a
| possible thir;y-six states has ratifed
Delegate Gordon alluded to the fact
that such measure had been held TO
be constitutional By the Attorney
General OF Virginia.
The bill provides that, in addition
to the male persons who are. or may
be. qualified under the Constitution and
TO vote for members Of the General
Assembly and all officers elective by
the people, every female citizen Of the
United States. i~cnty.one years OF age
who has been a resident OF the state
, 1.-two years. OF the county, city or town
one year and OF the precinct in which
cedlnG the election in which she one ,s
TO vote. has been registered. and has
paid her state poll taxes. shall be en-
removal from one precinct to an
|Iother in the same county. city or town
shall not deprive any woman OF her
which she has moved until the eXpira-
Hilton OF thirty days after such removal.
Prescribes wny to Register.
The bill further prescribed tha "un-
ess physically unable, she shaii make
without "A Id. suggestion or
iinemorandum. in the presence OF the
Ire Eistratlon officers. stating therein
lier name. age, date and place Of birth
Iltcsidence and occupation and that. as
: Ih prerequisite to IN" right 10 vote
Ibrior rio TO The e.cct'cn, all state poil
LllaJcs assessed or asscssa bic Gainst her
IIiurinG the three years next preceding
IIlhat in which she offers 10 vote"
II The seventeen who disscntcd from
he action OF the House were: Bon
Iurant. Runtin, Chase. commins. Crack
!iorsley. Hurt. Hyatt. Mc%ntt, Gwen
liobor,son. Snidow. Stephenson and
sufrraEe lobbyists who, throughout
khe present session OF the General AS
Icmbly. have kept faithful and con,
tant vigil. packed Their % pr9yI,e,r SI,, roia, nd
yIe eparted 20: ether pastures. Iheir
lsbors n Virginia nave ended.
IN Antis, who have been absent from the
I,apitoi Ruild;ns since the General A.
lembly S" dtc;siveiy disposed Of the
question Of whether or not Virginia
Ebiyas to r1.fy ,ae Anthony amendment.
4allso were In evidence for short time
III estcrday.
The House Yesterday morning passed
Iflhe woman suffrage referendum rcSo-
ysIution, by vote OF s, to 10 This
5sIesolution Will have to be acted on by
ilhe General Assembly Of 1922. and then
Ijubmittcd to tho voters OF the State
Nor their decision before il becomes
would Keep Vote Separate.
For fear that the consttutionality y
Ilf the bill setting up requirements for
llomen voting in Virginia. If the suf-
t|-agc amendment to the Federal Con-
Ilitution finally is ratified. may he at
Kicked, Senator Louis S. IIpes has un-
Her consideration the introduction this
fj,orninE of bill requiring the votes
kif men and women to he kept separate
M the election this fall.
III Leaders in both branches OF the
IIeneral Assembly were advised last
jIicht OF tho point that has been raised
n lind werc requested to think the b,at-
M IEr over for final decision today as
: Ib the advisability Of presenting the
Measure Attorney General John 4.
Il,unders also will consider the legal
il,pcct of the question.