Show I VERY REAR IT WOMAN SUFFRAGE DEFEATED IN CALIFORNIA The LoiijLool For Privilege Was j In Sight When Opponents of the Bill Rally and Defeat I I I I Sacramento Cal March 15There I i was some clever lobbying done in the I i I state senate The women of California j I I all but acquirrd the right cf surge j i today A fortnight ago the assembly i I passed a bill conferring upon alI i women citizens the privilege of voting i I I This bill was defeated in the senate j I I by the insertion of an amendment i I I which practi aly killed it but i tire pract aly kle it 1 tee of reconsideration was given This I I afternoon during the abs nce of sav eral senators opposed to woman suffrage I suf-frage the women had their bill called I I i up and reconsidered By a vote of 19 Ito I-to 1 the senate receded from its I amendment The women wire j bij I lant for they claimed that Governor j I j Budd had promised to app ove the measure The women were doomed to disappointment however for later in the day the opponents of the bill rallied I i ral-lied their forces and forced a reconsId I oration of the previous vote By a > vote j < of 20 to 15 the senate then refused to recede from its amendment This kills I the bill for all time The women suffragists suf-fragists though have not labored in vain for they have secured the adoption adop-tion of a concurrent resolution for the submissioi of the question to the people peo-ple in the form of a constitutional amendment at the next election Had the bill defeated today become a law and ben sustained by the courts though there was some doubt of its constitutionality the women would have been permitted to v te on the proposed constitutional amendment |