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Show WOMAN SUFFRAGE RECEIVESSETBACK PARTISANS OF VOTES FOR WOMEN MEET SECOND DEFEAT DE-FEAT WITHIN PAST YEAR. Democratic Leader Underwood Strongly Strong-ly Opposed Resolution, While Republican Re-publican Leader Mann Favored Cause of Suffragists. Washington. The house of representatives repre-sentatives on Tuesday, by a vote of 204 to 174, refused to submit to the states an amendment to the federal constitution to enfranchise women. The vote, the second in the history of congress on the woman suffrage issue, came at the close of a day ui long-prepared-for oratory, during which the many speakers were listened list-ened to with frequent evidences of approval ap-proval or disapproval by packed galleries. gal-leries. The question was before the house on the Mondell resolution to submit a constitutional amendment that the right of suffrage should not be abridged "because of sex." A two-thirds affirmative vote was necessary to pass the resolution; it was defeated by a majority of thirty. Party lines were not strictly drawn in the fight, though Democratic Leader Lead-er Underwood, voicing the attitude of his party that suffrage is a state issue, strongly opposed the resolution, while Republican Leader Mann was one of the chief speakers of the suffragists. This was the second defeat for the suffrage cause in the national legislature legisla-ture within a year. March 19 last an equal suffrage constitutional amendment, amend-ment, proposed by Senator Chamberlain Chamber-lain of Oregon, received a vote of 35 to 34 in the senate |