The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-18
LOWER HOUSE
FOR SUFFRAGE
BY so TO 46
Opponent Moves To Recon
slider, and House Will Meet
Tomorrow for That Pur-
pose-Thought Unlikely.
VOTE IN SENATE, 25-4
(Ry Associated Pressl

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Tennessee today became the
36th state to pass the Susan
B. Anthony federal suffrage
amendment, the constitutional
change that will become effec-
tive in time for the 100000
women of the country to vote in
the presidential election in No
vember, unless the lower house
of the Tennessee legislature re-
scinds its action in adopting the
ratification resolution, so to 46.
The senate ratified the amend
ment last Friday by a vote of 25
to 4.
Speaker Seth Walker, leader
of the anti-suffragists, put op-
ponents in a position to demand
reconsideration by changing his
vote from nay to aye and NOV
ing to reconsider.
The house adjourned until 10 O'Clock
tomorrow, when the speakers motion
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and anti-suffrage forces frightened
their lines this afternoon for the final
fight, and both sides were claiming
victory
Suffragist leaders declare they will
not let up in their efforts, as they
desire to have at least one other state
ratify before the November elections,
as they fear a fight may be made
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of a clause in the state constitution
which prohibits any assembly from
acting on an amendment not submit.
ter before the member were elected.
Both United State Solicitor General
and the Attorney General of Tennessee
have declared this clause to be un-
constitutional in the light of the re-
cent decision by the supreme court in
the Ohio controversy.
Suffrage Wins First
The suffrage won the first fight in
the house today. when motion to
take the resolution was lost, on a
tie vote, As to As.
This would have put over action
until 1921. Some of those keeping
tally of the voters record the vote.
49 to Al, in favor, and first reports
were that suffrage had lost. The of
ficial tally shows a tie vote however.
and to make assurance doubly, a sec
ond roll call was taken. The vote
again was recorded as As to As, and
the motion to table was declared lost
COLUMBUS, O.. Aug. 1s-Gov. Cox
Democratic presidential nominee re-
ceived his first news from the Associa.
ted Press of Tennessee's action on the
woman suffrage amendment.
He said he would withhold comment
for the present.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17-Ratifica-
tion of the suffrage amendment to the
constitution ends a struggle which be-
gan in this country before the Colon
les declared independence. 1t will
eventually enfranchise 25,000.OO
women.
First Heard In 1647
Women suffrage first raised its
voice in America. in Maryland, in 1s47
when Mistress Margaret Brent, heir
of Lord Calvert, demanded a place in
the legislature of the colony as a prop
erty holder of vice extent.
In the days of the Revolution, Abb
gail Adams wrote her husband. John
Adams at the Continental Congress
which was framing the laws of the in
fant nation that. "if-in the new laws
particular care and attention are not
paid to the ladies, we are determined
to foment a rebellion, and will Tot
hold ourselves bound to obey any laws
in which we have no voice"
Organized work for women suffrage
began in the United States with the
'Woman's Rights Convention" In
Seneca Falls, n. Y, in 1S4S, which was
called by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, early leaders of Mass
achusetts and New York, in response
fusal to permit women to take part
In the anti-slavery convention Of 1910.
Miss Anthony in 1852
From the date of that convention
the suffrage movement in the United
States began the fight that lasted 70
years and ended with a victory An
other convention followed in 1852 at
Syracuse, \. Y, at which delegates
from Canada were present, and 1t was
there that Susan B. Anthony assumed
leadership of the cause to which she
devoted her life.
In 1869, the National Woman Suf-
frage association, with Miss Anthony
and Mrs. Stanton at its head was
formed in New York, and In the same
year the American Woman Suffrage
association was organized in Cleve-
land, with Lucy Stone and Julia Ward
Howe as its leaders.
At first differing widely in policy,
the National association working to
put suffrage amendment through the
federal congress and its sister organi-
zation bending it's efforts to convert
the country state by state, the two
associations later united under the
name of the National Woman's Suf.
frage association. .
The associations drive for the vote
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