Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-19
SUFFRAGE BATTLE
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held together and another tie >xe- suited 1t meant rejection of tho amendment. When the speaker put s the motion hundreds of suffragists regarded the battle as lost.
 The vote at the outset was on par tis4n lines, but when the name of Representative Harry T. Burn, re- publican, of McMinn county, was called he voted "aye". The opposi- ,ion then virtually conceded defeat for Mir. Burn had voted with them to table the resolution and his change gave the suffragists the needed ma iority.
 The stand of the members was un- changed as the clerk ran down the list until the name of Representative B. P. Turner, democrat of Gibson county, was reached. MT. Turner passed and instantly there was 2 shout of satisfaction .from the antis. He had voted against the motion to table and his failure to vote on rati- fication balanced the loss incurred through MT. Burns vote for the amendment. The pleasure experience ed by the antis was short lived, how ever, for MT. Turner, just before the end of the roll call, requested the clerk to recognize him as voting "aye."
 Suffragists everywhere launched al uprcarous demonstration before the clerk announced the vote, for there was no question suffrage had won. The Constitutional Handle. ! The announced intention to at tack the legality of ratification if the house failed to rescind its action was the subject of conferences to- night between the suffrage leaders and between leaders of the opposi- tion. The clause of the Tennessee constitution upon which would be based the test in the courts is ar ticle 2, section 32. It follows:
 "No convention or general assem- bly, of this state shall act upon any amendment of the constitution of the United States proposed by con gross to the several states; unless
 such convention or general assem- ply shall have been elected after Iisuch amendment is submitted
 The present legislature was elected
 after such amendment is submitted y The present. legislature was elect ed in November 1918, and the sui frage amendment was not submitted
 to the states until months afterward The article was adopted in 1870 as [. result of the ratification by the
 Tennessee legislature of the four : teenth amendment during reconstruc.
 tion days after the civil war. White citizens of Tennessee were not rep. resented in that legislature, it is said, and to prevent ratification o1
 amendments by rushing tactics as occurred in that instance, adoption of the article was one of the first things effected after their civi , rights were restored.
 The supreme court of the United States in deciding recently cast originating in Ohio, held void {
 clause in the constitution of tha
 state relating to referendums ol
 amendments. Based on opinions b. w. L. Frierson, solicitor general O the United States, and states attor , ney general Thompson, Governor Rob erts called the present legislature il
 extraordinary session to act on thu suffrage amendment declaring he hat been assured the supreme court
 ruling in the Ohio case served t.
 nullify the article in the Tennessee
 constitution. Suffrage opponents il Tennessee held that the two case e were not parallel.