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Show MISSISSIPPI 10 AGT DPJ SUFFRAGE TODAY JACKSON, Miss., March 31. Ratification Ratifi-cation of the federal woman suffrage j amendment will be taken up late today by the house of ihe Mississippi legislature. legis-lature. Speaker Connor, after conferring confer-ring with house leaders, announced he was willing to have the ratification resolution, passed yesterday by the senate, brought up for direct action without reference to committee. National Democratic leaders earlier in the day had flooded the house with requests that it apt favorably on the amendment before Delaware, through its Republican legislature, acted to enfranchise en-franchise the women of the nation. The Mississippi senate passed the ratification rat-ification resolution yesterday. The house has once rejected it. Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the Democratic national committee, telegraphed Speaker Connor of the house today to do his utmost to secure immediate ratification, declaring that he regarded it "as intensely important that the Democratic party enfranchise women before the next national election elec-tion for the sake of our party in the nation." William J. Bryan asserted ratification ratifica-tion "will greatly aid our campaign with the western states." This message mes-sage added that "the women of the west won our presidential campaign four years ago and we need the women's wom-en's vote now to safeguard prohibition, defeat militarism and insure world peace." Secretary Daniels telegraphed urg-iing urg-iing the legislature to "embrace the opportunity of having the honor of giving the deciding vote." |