Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-07-08
LOUISIANA KILLS
|tSUFFRAGE MOTION
kfuses to Suspend Rules for
I Resolution by Vote of
H 81 to as.

BATON ROUGE, La. July s (by the
Press).-In spite of the
h1peal from Gov. Cox. the democratic
Representatives of the Louisiana gen.
E rAl assembly today, in its last days
session, refused to suspend the rules
ko,allow the introduction of resolu-
tiGp providing for the ratification of
the federal suffrage amendment The
motion to suspend the rules was voted
dQwn, SO to 46.
Ehe bill proposing to extend the
suffrage to women by state amend
ment was killed in the senate yes
kSfday by a vote of 81 to IA.
The death of the resolution today is
bSMeved certain. Today is the last
session day of the assembly and a sus-
pension of the rules in both houses
bf the legislature would be necessary
Id pass the measure. 1t is regarded
~ almost certain this cannot be OBJ
Mined.
u VIII Not Be Dictated To.
Fl will not allow Frank ]. Looney
bH;any other lunatic to dictate to me-"
Fetentative from ST. Landry parish.
when a telegram from the chairman
be the democratic state central COM
b&ttee stating Gov. Cox desired the
legislature to ratify the
Z2aeraI suffrage amendment was read.
[I,rI say this telegram is an insult
s8f the intelligence of every member
6ei this legislature" continued Mr..
EHdpre, speaking on point of per-
3cf1al privilege. He spoke for several
Minutes amid the cheers of several
E&ponents of female suffrage.
||I Telegram From Mr.. LoOney.
{lsThe telegram from Mr.. Looney. dated
II Shreveport, was as follows:
of the House of Representa-
lives. Baton Rouge: Please notify the
6flse that Gov. Cox has sent me tele-
EE1iam, as head of the state central COM
E6ittee, using the following language :
tI9he legislature owes it as duty to
he democratic party to ratify at once
3ks Louisiana will not be able to rem
ddr any other distinguished service to
LIE party, because every one considers
kES casting of our electoral vote as mere
w perfunctory, since it is one of the
&s1Sk-ribbed democratic states. it would
rs. as the President has stated, the per-
6olmance of a duty that might secure
NE election Of the national nominee. The
Zine is apparently at hand when the
B&rsonal opinion of every democrat in
Epuisiana must yield to the necessities
I'd the situation, and, just as those who
other candidates at San Fran
DISCO are now enthusiastic for the tick
~. Cox and Roosevelt, SO it is hoped that
khe legislature of Louisiana will render
tAfs service to the party and its chosen
c&ndidate."
AUp to Legislature. Says Beckett.
|StRALEIGH, n. c.. July mo con-
tsfence is going to develop anything
WIKI me until the legislature meets in
Bpscial session." declared Gov. Beckett
Today after an interview with Miss Mary
Willard Hinton, president of the North
Csrioina Suffrage Rejection League
.fiio called Gov. Bickett's attention t.
HE relation of the Susan b. Anthony
amendment to the North Carolina con-
ktftutions suffrage provisions.
Ils4sWhen / wrote w. n. Everett that
rduld recommend the ratification of the
amendment to that body / said all tina
[i.tntended to say until the Legislature
Eouvenes," the governor continued.
ItGOv. Beckett today issued the call t.
he North Carolina general assembly
10 meet in special session in Raleigh
August 10 "to prescribe such tax rate
as may be wise and just in view of tn
hctual value of the property in the stat
hs. ascertainsd by the revaluation act.
ITO consider constitutional amend
nents reducing the tax rates that ma.
be, hereafter levied.
ITO consider such other matters O
brave Importance to the public as tn
Eeheral assembly may deem wise