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Show ! Tennessee Women May j Be Granted Suffrage, & j NASHVILLE, Tenn.. March 12. ; i Governor Roberts announced that he would call a special session of the legislature to entend suffrage to Ton-I Ton-I nesscc women in the vent more states ! ratified the federal amendment prior to the next regular session. This will , be. done, the governor explained, to preclude tho possibility of contesting! elections in which women "voted without with-out previous enactment of state laws relating to payment of poll lax and registration. Governor Cornwell of West Virginia, who was here, said that even it the amendment was ratified forthwith I women in his state could not vote next fall unless the legislature meanwhile amended the registration laws. |