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Show SUFFRAGE IN SENATE. An effort is being made by the suffrage suf-frage leaders to bring matters to a head in the United States senate aud obtain a vote on the Susan B. Anthony amendment amend-ment to the constitution. Sine the adoption of the resolution in the house favorable action in the senate has been generally expected. Both national committees com-mittees seem to have arrived at the same conclusion and have gone upon record as favoring equal rights. But it seems that Senator Jones of New Mexico, Mex-ico, who is chairman of the committee having the matter in charge, is laboring under tho impression that three or four votes are needed in order to insure passage, pas-sage, of the resolution, and it is said that missionary work is being done among senators who insist that the adoption of a federal amendment would infringe upon the rights of the states. The same argument was used against country-wide prohibition, but that resolution reso-lution was put through congress. So the senators may ns well put the question ques-tion of universal suffrage up to the states by submitting the Susan B. Anthony An-thony amendment. Utah lias been a suffrage state ever since it was admitted admit-ted to the I'nion, and it is the general opinion that both our senators can bo relied upon to help the good work along by voting for the resolution. There docs not seem to be much room for argument ar-gument at the present, time. |