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Show SENATORS DOWN SUFFRAGE. Federal Amendment Resolution Lacks Necessary Two-thirds Majority. Washington. The senate on October 1 refused to grant the request of the president that the woman suffrage resolution be passed aa a war measure. meas-ure. After , five days of bitter debate, corridor conferences and cloakroom ! negotiations, the Susan B. Authonyj federal amendment resolution enacted by the house lust January received on the final ro'l call two votes less than the neressiiry two-thirds majority. major-ity. Fifty-four senators were recorded for It and thirty against It, with twelve absent and paired. Before the vote was announced Senator Sen-ator Jones of New Mexico, chairman of the woman suffrage committee, to .comply with parliamentary requirements, require-ments, changed his vote from the affirmative af-firmative to' the negative and moved that the sennte reconsider. Chairman Jones and other champions cham-pions of the resolution declared after the vote that the defeat Is only temporary, tem-porary, and that the contest will be renewed after the November elections, when changes In membership are certain. |