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Show WILSON WILL . URGE SUFFRAGE IN NEXT CONGRESS . i Tells Delegation He Is Convinced Con-vinced Things Must ' Move Faster. ' ! By Cilton Gardner By Speoial New Service. WASHINGTON. Juno I. President Wilson ku convinced Advocate of woman suffrage that ha la friendly toward th passage of tha . fadarai amendment. Ha would Ilka to aea It paaaad at thla congress, but will not Initiate such a. mmramant tm will however, puah It next eeaeion. Thla ia tha impreaalon gathered by the committee which waited on Wlleoo. representing the I-rogreaalva party confer no which recently met In St. Lou la, and representing, alao,.tha Prohibition, Pro-hibition, Social it and Woman's par-tlea. par-tlea. Tha committee numbered about a doaan and the preaident talked in- fnrmallyandulteijiklyJialfaa hour. 11 Tha moat Important change in Prea-Ment Prea-Ment Wllaon'a attitude la hla abandonment aban-donment of the atate-by-atate plan. While admitting that hla predlleettona are atlU toward the state method, he aaaured hla visitor he la now convinced con-vinced many thinga must move faster aa a result of the world war than they would In normal tiroes. With tha great drafts made on worn, an for war aervioe it la thought poll Ural recognition of women aa voters la the least any government eaa give. With tha country pommlttad tn war for world democracy, the preaident admits there la point In the olalm by women that our own franchise ayatera be democratised. In thla tha United Ktates la only following In the was of Oremt Britain and probably even Russia. Too present eeaeion of congress, ears the preaident. ia already oonunlt- tad to th exciualv consideration of a war program. - At the beginning of th session the preaident held oonferenoes with congressional con-gressional leaders and agreement was reached that th Urn should b devoted de-voted to passage of a row measures like the selective service bill, epy bill. Liberty loan bond Issue, taxation program, pro-gram, army 'bill, sundry civil bill and tbe river and harbor bUL General legislation haa been pot to en aide. Kven prohibition has found plaoa only Incidental to tn conservation conserva-tion of food. When thla program la cleaned up tbe president expects eon-grii eon-grii ta adjourn. Aa soon as th weather la coo! he expect to sail congress back for a seeoad eeaeion, and at that time woman wom-an aufrrage, he give asuranoe, will be Included la th administration program. pro-gram. With administration support tha Susan Su-san R Anthony amendment can easily be passed. I A poll shows two-thirds of th Republican Re-publican mem hers of th house and aenate are willing to vote for th amendment The Democrata a how only about a third, the rest holding off until they get word from tbe preaident. a few members are avowedly against suffrage. Mokt of th Democratic member, particularly In the house, say frankly they are walUng for th president to say what be wanta. With tha president's O. K. such sn amendment would receive th necessary neces-sary two-thirds vote In house and senate and would automatically go to the states for ratification.. |