Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-08-20
LOWER HOUSE
 WILL RESCIND
 SUFFRAGE VOTE
Speaker Makes Announce ment After Mass Meeting
 of Opposition
ACTION FOLLOWS UP
 CHARGES OF FRAUD
Majority, Sufficient to Block Action of State on the Question. is Seen by Opponents of
 Measure

Nashville, Tenn, Aug. 19.-The Tennessee house tomorrow will re- scind it's action yesterday in ratifv- ing the federal suffrage amendment Speaker Seth Walker, leader of the opposition, declared tonight at a mass meeting of Nashville citizens opposed to suffrage. The meeting followed grand jury investigation in alleged fraud.
 MT. Walker declared forty seven members of the house already had signed pledge to reconsider, that three more would sign tonight and that several others were expected to join them before the house meets tomorrow.
 The vote in the house when it con- cured in the action of the senate and completed notification was 49 to AT. MT. Walker, in order to reserve to himself alShe the privilege of moving for EecassiasrgtiJn during the two legislative daxs following changed his vote frofM "nay to Aexa" and the roll call was recorded as fifty to 46.
 The speaker did not attempt to- day to move for Tee e0HsyUeFSVeU4smast, must do so before adjournment to- morrow if he would reserve the sole right of taking such action. After that time any member of the house may offer such a motion.
 The house has membership of 99 and the vote of the 96 present yesterday gave the suffragists ma jority of only two. They claimed lfow- ever, that two of the absent solons were suffrage advocates and their presence tomorrow, if the opposition failed to add to their strength, would afford them majority of four.
 If, as Mir. Walker declared, addi- tional members were to join the forty seven pledged to rescind rati- fication, the opposition would have a safe majority and the upsetting of ratification would be impossible toShcad off.
 % Cox Letter Boom.
 Andthcr event which electrified the audic1ce tof more than 4,000 persons was the leading of hitherto unpub- lished letter from Governor Cox, the democyatic presidential nominee, un- ier~date of August 10, to Giles |. Evans, of Fayetteville, Tenn, presi- dent of the Tennessee Bar ossociation in which the nominee discussed sec tion S2, article 2, of the Tennessee 
 Upon this clause is based the con- tention of suffrage opponents that this legislature had no legal right to pass upon the amendment. The ar- ticle provides that no assembly should act upon proposed amendment un- ess it should have been elected after of the measure to tha states by congress. The legislature was elected in November 1918, and he amendment was not submitted un- il several months later. MT. Evans < lad written Governor Cox explaining he provision and asking for an opin- on.
 T know enough of the south, or It east I believe I do, to appreciate 'our feeling with reference to your 'wn internal affairs" the nominee re- < piled. "Our platform has made | veyy positive declaration on the 18th amendment and, as you will It on0o 'ecognize, the policy of that doen- nent becomes my own as we'll. At tho anne time shall endeavor to speak he policy of the platform to main- ain the proprieties which your, Iet- CTS set forth.
 "I have no hesitation in saying tint ection 32 of article of the Ten- lessee constitution is very wise Jan. It ought to be adopted in al1 s tates. Whether it is in conflict with { he federal constitution as recently interpreted is another matter. Mont awyers with whom have talked be- ieve that it is not. However, it ia E lot within my province to make this declaration" At the close of the meeting rssoe utions were adopted requesting nen- ers of the house to support tho na6zgs; ion of Speaker Walker to reeonsfdpI he ratification measure.
 
 STILL HECKLE BRITIGIE