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Show Mississippi Fails to Ratify Woman Vote' i JACKSON, Miss.. March 31. -The' i Mississippi legislature l.ito today fi-' nslly refused to ratify th federal wo-' man suffrage amendment. The action, 1 came in the form, "of a motion" to dis-i dis-i k agree with the senate resolution of i yesterday which faored ratificat'on. The motion to disagree was carried ' The house was avowedly hostile to ratification. An uproar of nays foi-: lowed a demand that the clerk be per: in U ted to read telegrams from Demo-! cratlc leaders and others from all! parts of the country urging rntifica-l Governor Russell, although momen-, f tarily expected to make his "little' I talk" In favor of ratification, did not! ajppear. . I Speakers who endeavored to address j the body in support of the measure were hooted and jeered. ; DOVER, Del., March 31. The votej in the house on ratification of the suffrage amendment which was ex-' pected this afternoon failed to ma-; terallze when Representative Hart' who had promised to bring the mea- j suro up for final passage refused to ; do so, saying certain things had happened hap-pened which would make rejection necessary. |