The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-08-21
House Majority Called Up and
Tabled Walkers Motion
to Reconsider.
WALKER ENTERS PROTEST
Claiming Action Unauthorized
Because of Lack of
Quorum.
(eY G. r. MILTON, JR., Special Cor
respondent OF I. NJ. S.)

respondent OF I. NJ. s.)
Nashville, Aug. 21.-The house ma
1ority this morning called up the rati-
hcation resolution for reconsideration.
Speaker Walker made point of order
OF no quorum. and demanded roll
call. Representative Odle, in, the chair,
refused this roll call. The house by so
to 0; nine not voting. refused to re-
consider the ratification.
Walker again demanded his roll call.
The roll was called on reconsideration,
however. The Immortal 40" again
voted solidly against recopsideration.
The eight anti members recorded
themselves as not voting. The fifty
votes against reconsideration make a
constitutional majority against recon-
sideration. Walker again demanded a
point of order of no juorum be ge-
corded on the Journal.
No Quorum Present.
When the roll was called in the house
not quorum was present. There were
fifty mine members answering and forty
absent. T. X. Riddick, of Shelbyville,
made a motion and 1t was agreed that
the house adjourn at 1890 am. for one
hour. instructing the sergeant-at- arms
to round up all members possible.
Moves to Reconsider.
A motion by T. X. Riddick to vote to
reconsider the ratification of the Nine
teenth amendment was carried by a
ruled this out, as no quorum was
present.
At 1920 pm. Riddick moved that the
house adjourn until Monday at pm.
This was carried by an overwhelming
vote.
It. X Riddick rose to parliamentary
inquiry and point of order. 81 insist
while the rqllcall disclosed there is not
a quorum for the transa ction of ordi-
nary legislative business, there ae
ent enough for ratification OF the Nine
teenth federal amendment. We are not
, proceeding under the rule statute or
constitutional provision Of the state of
Tennessee, but under the direct au
thority and mandate OF thu constitution
OF the United States"
T. A. Dodson, who was on board
train to go back to his sick wife, was
taken from his train to vote for suf-
frage.
Thirty-seven antis today made last
being the perfect 36" in states to ratify
the suffrage amendment. They are In
Alabama to break the legal quorum.
But fifty-nine men were on hand when
the clerk called the roll today II was
moved by Representative Odle to make
a list of the absentees, that Speaker
send Sergeant-at- Arms. arrest, and |
bring absent members before the bar OF
the house. The speaker ruled that
when a filibuster was in progress the |
X Riddick moved to recess for an hour; |
the motion. after objection by Speaker
Walker, was carried.
Senate to the House
The Tennessee senate will this aft I
ernoon can upon the house for Senate
resolution No. l. This will force the
speaker OF the house to send back to
the senate the suffrage ratification res
olution, together with Information as
to what action has been taken on It
esrias rhls RSiifs @iii force spssEsr walker u
show that the house Journal records
vote OF so to 46 Wednesday on the
motion. II is expected that he will
rule that as a reconsideration motion
is also on the Journal. unacted upon,
the resolution has not yet passed. But.
however. the senate can then send the
resolution to the governor If 1t so de-
sres.
TWO suffrage men were on hand who
we're here. despite severe illness IN
their families. T.. W. Dodson', repub.
Iican, Kingsport. Tenn, has baby at
horne which his wife telephoned him
could not live He would not leave un-
iii TODAY. and is standing by his fortv-
eight fellow suffrage heroes to block
&c emes of the antis.
Representative c. w Brooks. whose
wife is at the point of death nj At;
wood. came this morning by special
train from her bedside. He came to
block any reconsideration.
know | could scare thirty seven legis-
lators from here" he declared. ..
But thirty-s seven antis have gene to
Alabama TO break a quorum. accord:
ing to Senator Lon Mcfarland. anti
leader They left last night for point
outside the Jurisdiction of the state. so
they cannot be arrested. In 1909. 1911
and 1918 minorities left the state to
break a quorum. In one case they
stayed out for nine months
A law was passed then making II a
felony for a legislator TO absent him
self wilfully to hfeak a quorum. The
penalty afixed was six months inn
prisonment ana 81 900 fine. Four more
men than the original thirty-seven are
believed to have left this morning for
Alabama.
Senator Brandegee. Connecticut, re-
publican, is understood to he in. Nash
vile directing the battle against rati-
fication.
The forty-ive who have stuck to the
rause of ratification through thich@and
hin were last night described by Mrs.
Carrie Chapman Gait. president OF the
American Women Suffrage
issociation. as "all heroes; your names
viii be written forever on the hearts Of
women"