The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-09-24
COLBY WILL NOT
RESCIND ACTION
EiCheIberger's Story to the
New York Sun Causes
Colby to Talk.
TRIES TO CHEER WALKER
(sy JOHN D. ERwIN.)

washington, D. c., Sept. a.
Secretary Of state Colby has au.
thorlzed tho statement that no will
to rescInd or fecaIl his action on
the suffrage proeiamat alton, but will
let the original proclamation stand
with Tennessee as tho thirty. sixth
state, thus dlsregardlne what the
antlsuffragsts claim was a reIec.
tlon Of the amendment by the Ten
nessee legislature after tho run.
aways returned from Alabama.
Secretary Colby finds himself in
volved In a controversy as to what ac-
tually occurred at the conference be-
tween himself and the delegation
headed by Speaker Seth Walker last
Monday.
Eichelberoer 5obs Up Again.
When Mr.. Colby's attention was
called TO participate printed in the New
York Sun, given out by j. $. Bichel-
berger purporting to give an account
OF what was said by both sides at the
conference, he issued a statement de-
nying the remarks attributed to him,
saying that those imputed to him by
members OF the Tennessee Legislature
were utterly untrue; The account or
lished In the. current number of the
Woman Patriot, organ of the anti
suffragists. Is as follows:
AT the first interview the. secretary
was very cordial to the delegation, dis
GUESSING the suffrage question at length
Gently that II looks like women are In
herently and constitutlonaly republic
cam he also declared that ne did not
know anything. In the way OF state
craft on which he could get Information
OF value from his wife and daughters,
and that the eighteenth and nineteenth
Capitol Hill.'
Threat TO Mcclellan.
Yes. Mr.. Secretary" replied Rep
reseftatlve Sharpe, ''one OF those
wealSllngs is Kenneth d. Mcclellan,
and n democrat, and we will attend
to him. when the time comes In Ten,
Tells Walker Not to Feel Sad.
You need not feel sad about this
thing" said the secretary to Speaker
II don't feel sad. feel outraged"
Mr.. Co l9; statement Is as follows:
statement in which an opinion was ex-
pressly or implicitly conveyed that the
action OF the state OF Tennessee was
inconclusive and that grave doubt ex-
ibteu as 10 the nnality and legal effect
OF It's vote on the constitutional amend
ment.
ION questioning them, I discovered
that their theory was that II would
have n political effect in Connecticut
and Maryland and might cause either
one of those states to vote differently
on the subject Of ratification II they
but realized that the action In Tennes-
see was overshadowed by doubt as to
Its true effect.
I'm other words. they wished to I'm
press upon Connecticut that its actions
were not perfunctory and merely ex-
pressive OF n friendly sentiment to equal
suffrage. but In view of the uncertain-
ties which they wished to he given Of
flcial emphasis with regard to Tennes-
sees action that II might be decisive
ms TO the ratification.
THE Tennessee Legislators went no
far ms TO submit 10 me n statement
which met their specifications, with the
request that l should issue II. It was
obviously an improper thing for me to
do and amounted TO the use of the
state department for antisuffraRe cleo
pioneering. II required but a little re-
Election for me to perceive this, and
quite naturally I decided against the
Issuance Of any such statements"