Arizona republican., 1920-08-25
TENNESSEE VOTE ON RAT|F F|CAT|ON
 |S CERTIFIED TO SECRE ETARY COLBY
Governor Roberts Mails Certificate After Attorney General Gives Opinion on Decision
LRePubIicaa A. p. Leased wirel

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.-lssuance of a proclamation by the state depart nent formally announcing ratification by three- four.hs of the states of the suffrage amendment is expected by suffrage leaders within 24 hours. Their prediction was based on Secre tary Colby's recent announcement that he Was prepared to issue the procIama ticn as soon as he received the offi- ciaI notification from Governor Rob- erts of Tennessee, which dispatches from Nashville said was placed in the mails today.
 NASHVILLE, Tenn. Aug. 24.-Cer- tification of Tennessee's ratification of the federal suffrage amendment was en route by mail tonight to Washing ton On its. receipt there by Secre- tafy of State Colby, suffrage leaders expect issuance of the formal procla- nation making the amendment a part of the organic law of the land and placing 22o00,000 American women in an equality with men at the ballot box
 Governor Roberts placed the cer- tification in the mail today after he re- -ceived from State Attorney General Thompson an opinion that a writ of certiorari and superSedeas, issued last night by Chief Justice Lansden of the Tennessee supreme court, in effect set aside an order temporarily restraining the governor IIOul ldhllA6 SQCi dOtlOil. The injunction was obtained last Sat urday by citizens of Nashville opposed to suffrage on the plea that action on the amendment by the present legis- lature was in violation of the state constitution.
 Will Appeal Decision
 The action may transfer to Wash ington the battle over legality of rat ification, anti suffrage leaders declar- ing the American Constitutional league was prepared to apply to the District of Columbia supreme court for an or der restraining Secretary Colby from issuing the proclamation. So far as court action in Tennessee is concerneo the only thing in prospect for oppo- nents is to request the supreme court to rescind the individual action of Justice Lansden. The court meets in Knoxville Sept. 20
 Announcement that Justice Lansden had issued the writ. followed by the statement that the governor had mailed the certification was a bomb shell in the camp of the anti-suffrage forces and surprise to the suffra- gists. There had been no intimation such a course was planned.
 Attorney General Thompson filed the petition for the writ with Justice Lansden at his residence last night on behalf of Governor Roberts and other state officers, parties to the restrain ing order. The names of Seth Walker, speaker of the house and opposition leader, and John Green. clerk of the house, also named in the injunction, were not on the petition presented to the justice.
 Antis fingered at Coup
 MT. Thompson argued the case before the justice and the writ was granted. The petition was filed with the clerk of the supreme court at 9:55 o'clock this morning and p minutes later the certificate of ratification was in the mails. The petitioners who obtained the injunction were amazed at the coup and in statement attacked what they termed the high handed tactics and unprecedented methods" involved.
 This action was taken and the in- Junction in effect dissolved without any notice whatsoever to the complain ants or their solicitors. all of whom live in Nashville and were easily ac- cessible," the statement said. Al though the rule of law generally and the rule of professional ethics and courtesy all require that notice be given opposing counsel of the inten- ton to apply to an appellate judge fol the writ of supersedeas.'
 The Davidson county grand jury still has under investigation charges that lobbyists were at work preceding the final votes in an effort to improp- erIy influence members of tf.e legis I4tllre to defeat ratification.