Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-02-10
sy Special corresponds,,s.


TRENTON, Feb. 10.--New Jersey al
1 o'clock this morning became twenty.
seventh Of the sisterhood OF states tc
ratffy the woman suffrage amendment
to the national constitution. After
four hours fighting and filibustering
the house of assembly, following in
the wake Of the state Senate, passed
the MacKay Ratification Resolution
by vote of thirty-four to twenty six
thus leaving nine states to ratify The
nineteenth amendment before it be
comes part of the constitutional law O.
the land
The suffragettes waited in tn,
galleries of the House and on the
floor until the vote was taken and ther
showed their satisfaction by DEM
onstration in which those in the
gallery waved their flags in triumph
over the result.
The vote for and against ratifca-
ton in the House follows
Ayes: Agans. Appleby. Baldwin, Black
we'll, Blair. Blizzard. Boswell, Bowen,
Coppinger, Corio, Dater DeVoe. Dono-
Hansen, Hastings, HeinZmann, Hersh-
field, Lyons, McAteer, Muro, Roberts
Rogers, Schultz, Shields, Silver, Stan
ton, Stiles Sullivan, Tozer and War
ner-34.
Nays:-Barret. Coles. Cross, Ed
ridge, Evans. Finley, Forlenza,
Fruend, Fritts. Guthrie, Headley, Hy-
Rowland, Siegler, Stout, Tattersall,
Walworth, Whalen, Young, Dallas,
and Young, David.
Party lines were widely split on
the vote and on all the preliminary
votes leading up to the final ques-
ton. Every one of the twelve Hud-
son Democratic assemblymen stood
fo, Il rJc c. CT {,, n fc
inaugural address to ratify and on
every roll call the twelve Democratic
assemblymen, standing by their dec
laration in the state convention Of
last fall, voted to a man against rati-
fication and for a referendum on the
subject.
The Union Republican delegation
of three split, former Speaker Pier
son and Assemblyman Eldridge stat
ing for referendum and Mr.. War
ner voting for ratification. The ma
jority of the Passaic Republican del
egation was against ratification, but
Republican Leader Hershfeld, of
by several of~the Hudson members.
Democratic leader Barrett tried
every parliamentary scheme he dould
devise to halt the passage of ratifica-
tion this morning. Starting at 8
o'clock last night, he offered a series
of substitute amendments and mo-
tions to the Mackay resolution which
Kept the house In an uproar for hours
and necessitated constant roll calls.
Although his fight was cleverly waged
and 1t appeared once, as If he might
stall off the inevitable vote for rati-
hcatton, he was unsuccessful. The
nearest he came to q temporary vic
tory was when he moved that an opin-
ion be obtained from the Attorney
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OF the, resolution of ratification and
when he moved that further consider
alton of the matter be postponed until
two o'clock this afternoon. On former
roll call the vote was twenty-seven
Tor, to thirty-one against his propost-
ton and on the latter 1t stood 26 70 32.
IL required 81 votes to pass q meas
ure, Assemblyman Devoe, Democrat
and Lyons Republican, of Middlesex.
voted with Barrett on several of these
propositions, but on the final roll call
were found standing by ratification.
All kinds of oratory and fireworks
characterized the four hours battling
on the floor Of the house. The assem-
bly, chamber was crowded both on
the floor and IN the galleries until
after midnight while the fight con-
tinued.
The opponents of ratification took
Majority Leader Hershfield to task
for his admission to Rowland. also
Of the majority. that he had proba-
bly, voted in the Republican conven-
tion last fall for referendum.
Since then, however, 1 have had
my ear to the ground" declared the
leader. Assemblymen Donovan, Nc
Ateer and George made pleas for the
ratification and they worked openly
with Hershfield for its passage On
the other hand Mr. Barrett. Demo-
cratic leader, was supported by Mr..
Rowland. of Camden, Republican,
and Assemblymen Freund, Judge and
Headley. all on the Essex delegation.
Assemblyman David Fl. Agans, of
Hunterdon, Democrat, drew great
applause in speech just before the
last roll call in which he declared he
had been for equal suffrage for TWEEN
ty years and that 1t would end Gin.
visible governm ent."
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