Show VOTE IN DELA UL DEL N A Foes of dt Movement of-Movement S Seek ek Quick Action in Belief Measure Is Doomed P Friends n Urge D lay a pelay pelayO II D o O oYER R D Del M e Alt 1 ft efforts forts by y an I ag s. s to f force o r e ce e a vote on ratification of h federal federal amendment amendment- failed today and anH neither house will t take ke action action ac ac- tion before Monday The delay was g generally looked on as favorable to I the he suffrage c cause use notwithstanding j the he f fact ct that more than half halt of the I members of the lower house h have agreed d t to against the measure measure WORK WORT HARD FOR DELAY The suffrage supporters are workIng working working work- work Ing hard ban for or delay during which they believe bellev a few wavering votes may be co coaxed d into the suffrage hold United States Senator Ball Js is directing the fight for ratification The amendment will first be called up up in the senate where suffrage h ha hl haa a small m majority It will then go to the house where It is considered cert certain t tain ln J of t defeat Twenty of the thirty thirty- five members of the house have signed a a a- bipartisan agreement to vote against it STATES MAY HINDER WOMEN WASHINGTON March 26 Women Wo Wo- Women men in several states may be denied a vote In the coming presidential election despite ratification of the suffrage suf sut- frage amendment before November it it itis is said at the the N Na Womans Woman's Woman's Womans Party here unless changes are are made in registration laws A p pIn AIn In order that women women all pi oer o'er the United States may register for the c coming November under existing ex ex existing laws ratification be completed completed completed com com- before before M May y 1 1920 on which d date te Georgia closes closes Its registration Registration in mot mo other states states' d does es not n not t close until September or October October October Octo Octo- ber by which Gme me suffrage leaders ar are confident file confident he he- amendment nt will be ratified d. d S II I I S SOUTH UTH fUMBLING BLOCK Other r requirements however beside beside be be- sla side t t element element time of-time may nullify the the- themen's women's mens men's ext November in Jn ince ince ce certain n n of the stat states s es especially in the uth h unless s t the 1 legislatures are willing to m make ke necessary necessary- changes changes In the laws Jaws Payment of a poi tax jn in n eight of ot the states in over oer over a period of ot three years years yeara before tie the election and in Florida and Louisiana for the two y years ars previous Texas law calls caUs for the payment of a apoll poll poIL tax on J January nuary 1 Alabama and Mississippi 1 on on- February 1 1 and N North rth Carolina and South Carolina on May 1 1 r BRING PRESSURE will willI willbe be to Pressure brought bear ear upon upon- the legislatures where necessary necessary necessary sary to have registration reopened I and arid the laws modified It is said here 1 but women political leaders hope the changes will be a. a accomplished co without In states where women have hav not heretofore been given th thI the privilege of ot fulfilling the necessary ar requirements provision should be made for them to go to the polls this November It if the amendment is ratified ratified ratified rati rati- fied In time they the assert N No opposition to the operation of or orthe the e a amendment In strongly states similar to tactics employed in the South to to limit the negro vote after the passage of the fifteenth amendment is' is considered likely by suffragists her here |