The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1922-10-24

Situation Has Been Proposed. In
Meantime Merry Row Goes On.
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The ef-
forts of the organized women to find q
way by which Mrs. Rebecca FELTON,,
appointed to succeed the late Senator
Watson, may be allowed actually 10
be sworn in and sit in the United
States senate for at least one day have
stirred up a merry row.
A retroactive bill has been prepared
covering such a situation, and in an
ticipation of its passage the candidates
for the democratic nomination to sue
coed Mrs. FELTON, for the regular term
were asked by wire, if elected to de-
fer presenting credentials and qualify
ing as senator until Mrs. FELTON, first
can be sworn in. Wires were also sent
to all members of the senate asking
them to pay their own expenses to
Washington for a one-day session to
swear in Mrs. FELTON,, President Hard
ing's sole objection to such a brief
session being on account of the ex-
pense.
Mrs. Katherine Livingston Eagan,
in a letter to the president, expressed
doubt about the democratic members
of the senate being willing to come
to Washington at their own expense
to swear in the woman senator, be-
cause they had fought suffrage.
A Spirited Rejoinder
Mrs. Mary Wright Johnson replied
to Mrs. Eagan, Mrs. Johnson is a
member of nearly every prominent
women's club in the United States
She is secretary of the District of Co
umbia democratic committee and
chairman of the District of Columbia
democratic women.
Answering Mrs. Eagan, Mrs. John
son said:
Southern gentlemen do not con-
slider personal expense, nor inconveH-
fence, nor life itself, where honor to
southern womanhood is involved. Con-
corning suffrage, the south had prob
lem which existed in no other pa1
of the country. The fact stands forth
that the south has led in all move
ments for women. 1t was southern
state legislature, Mississippi in 1855
that passed the first married womanis
property law, giving a married woman
personal right over her own property
This was ten years before the FIRST
women's convention was held in Sen
eca Falls, N. Y, in 1848, where the
married women's property law was
one of the first clauses embodied IN
their platform. II was a southern
state. Tennessee, that ratified and
made possible for the entire United
States the nineteenth amendment.
1T was southern and not a Penn
sylvania governor to appoint wO-
man to the United States, and that
without one cent of expenditure which
is quite a contrast to the 100000 ex-
pended for the purchase of seat by
Newberry. | do not believe that the
president will call the senate in SEES
sion at this time, because republican
senator's are badly needed to make ex-
cuses to the voters for removing $780,
100000 excess profit tax from the
monopolies and placing tariff OF S3,-
100000, 900 on everything used in the
homes of our American people; ex-
cuses for failure to keep their pledges
on the soldier bonus, made in the last
election, in order to secure votes.
"As soon as the election is over
session. is to be called to give moi
only the ships, but S50,000,000 to the
shipping corporation taking them, and,
with the high tariff, there will be no
cargo; and the foreign countries viii
not be able to pay us the interest
much less the principal on the loan
they owe us"
George Favors Seating Mrs. FELTON,.
Judge George, nominee for the SEN
ate, declares he will do everything in
his power that can be legally done to
have Mrs. w. H. FELTON,, senatorial
appointee from Georgia, take the oath
as a member of the United States SEN
ate. Judge George says: Il want TO
be just as gracious to Mrs. FELTON, and
to the good women who have her IN
terests at stake as it is possible for
me to do within legal bounds. Just
what authority have as an officer
Ieected by the people to refrain from
taking the oath in order that this hon
or may be confirmed upon this lady