The Semi-weekly leader., 1920-01-24

House Rejects Suffrage Amendment
By vote of LOG to ,2S the lower
house of the Mississippi legislature
rejected the Susan B. Anthony A.
mendment providing suffrage for wo-
men, Wednesday morning, after a.
bout ten minutes discussion. The
question was brought up on a con-
current resolution offered by Mr.
Winter OF Grenada county providing
that the amendment "be rejected as
an unwarranted, unnecessary and
dangerous interference with the
rights reserved to the states and to
the people in both the state and
federal constitutions"
On roll call the Winter resolution
rejecting suffrage was adopted by a
vote of 106 to %. Those members
of the house who stood by the wo-
men and opposed the adoption of the
resolution were Messrs. Abernathy,
Boone of Quitman, Brody, Brown,
CLANCY, Cox, Currie, Denley, Garner,
Gore, Henderson, Houston, Johnson
of Jackson, Kennedy, Lee, Lumbley,
Mitchell of Alcorn, Mitchell of Lee,
Rees, Rice, Rouse, Sheldon, and Sell
lers. Nine members were absent and
did not vote. Mr.. Mitts of Lee want
ed to make the vote unanimous. The
representative and foater represen-
tative from Lincoln both voted for
the adoption of the Winter resolu-
ion that defeated the cause of the
Women Suffrage movement in Mis-
sissippi at this session of the legis-
lature at least.
Wants State University Moved to
Jackson. E...
Mr.. Sheldon of Washington intro
duced on Wednesday a concurrent
resolution providing for the removal
of the State University from Oxford
to Jackson. In his resolution Mr..
Sheldon states that it might be
good idea to consolidate all of the
State Educational institutions into
one great institution of learning To-
Gated at the capital of the state, and
thus save good deal of expense. He
p claims that bills are now pending in
the house for appropriations amount
ing to over $2,000,000 for the va
rious educational Institutions of the
State, and in order to save this large
sum, all Of them should be consoli-
dated and moved to Jackson.
Change the Name Of !. I. & C.
The students of the l. l. G. c. have
hled a petition before the legislature
requesting that the name of their
college be changed from the Indus
trial Institute and College, to the
Mississippi State College for Women.
hn fa11
on the petition as presented.
Woman's Suffrage May Yet be Sub
mitted to People.
Although the suffrage amendment
to. the constitution was defeated in
the legislature under the concurrent
resolution introduced by Mr.. Winter
of Grenada on Wednesday, the ad-
vocates Of the measure are much elat-
ed over the fact that Chairman Ken
nedy brought in a favorable report
Thursday on House Concurrent Res
olution MOTT, to amend Section .241
Of the constitution, to extend like
suffrage to male and female inhabi-
tants with the companion resolution
to impose uniform poll tax both on
men and women. A favorable re-
port also came from the Judiciary
Committee, Division B, on the bill
enabling women to vote in. the pri-
mary elections, which in the opinion
of many, would give to the women Of
Mississippi, far more power than
would the adoption of the Federal
Amendment. From these measures
it seems that the womansss suffrage
matter may be taken out Of the hands
Of the legislature so far as the Fed
eral Amendment is concerned, and
submitted to the people Of the state
in the form Of an amendment to the
Constitution Of the State, that will
be voted upon at the general elec-
tion in November.
Favorable Report on $25, ,000,00O
Road Fund.
Mr.. Pate. author of the bill for
the appropriation Of theszum Of SIS
100000 for highways In the ST. !.