The courier-index., 1920-08-27
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
 NOW CERTAINTY
SECRETARY OF STATE COLBY ISSUES PROCLAMATION AN NOUN CLING AMENDMENT RATIFICATION

Washington, Aug. 26.-The proc lamation announcing officially that the suffrage amendment to the con stitution had been ratified was sign ed today by Secretary Colby of the state department.
 The document was signed at $ o'clock this morning at MT. Colby's home when the certificate from Gov. Roberts that the Tennessee leg islature had ratified the amend ment was received. Secretary Col by announced his action on his ar rival at his office later.
 The announcement disappointed a group of suffrage workers from headquarters of National Woman's s party, who had gathered at the state department hoping to be pre- sent when MT. Colby attached his signature to the proclamation. Miss Alice Paul, chairman of the party, was among the number.
 "We are confident that the sig nature of Secretary Colby com pletes the suffrage struggle in this country" she said. "In spite of every obstacle that our opponents could put in our way, women have won the right to an equal voice in the affairs of this government. The women's party will not relax its vig,, ilance, however, until it is satisfied that no further attempts will be made to wrest from the women of the United States the political equal ity they have won."
 Miss Paul planned to go today to New York to call meeting of the executive committee of the party at which the date for the na- tional convention to fix future pol icy will be decided.
 Efforts will be made. anti-suf- frage leaders declared, to have the United States supreme court pass on the legality of Tennessee's rat ification. Suffrage opponents pre- dicted the court would hold that the legislature had no authority to act.
 Mrs. Carry Chapman Catt, pres ident of the National American Wo- man Suffrage Association, was ex- pected to arrive in Washington from Nashville in time for suffrage jolification which will be held here tonight.
 Antisuffrage forces received an- other setback Wednesday when Jus tice Siddons of the District of Col umbia supreme court, refused to issue a "show cause" order against Secretary Colby primarily to the issuance of the injunction to re- strain that official from proclaim ing the Nineteenth Amendment a law of the land. The order would have required MT. Colby to show cause why the injunction should not be issued. The action was brought by Charles s. Fairchilds, an official of the American Constitutional League, on behalf of himself and the organization.
 The action of Justice Siddons to- day paralleled in a measure that of Justice Bailey of the same court last month, except that Justice Bail ey granted a 'show cause" order against Secretary Colby in similar bill filed by the same plaintiffs, but after hearings declined to isuse the injunction asked on grounds of lack of jurisdiction and insufficient showing. In dismissing the bill to- day Justice Siddon said that he did not wish to review Justice Bailey's action in a similar case and that to issue the show cause order would be an "unwarranted interference with a purely ministerial action of the secretary of state
 Mir. Smith said that he stilled hoped to obtain a decision before the November elections. If, how ever, the appeal should be carried through the District of Columbia court of appeals to the supreme court it could not be argued until after the regular meeting of the court in October with little likeli-