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Show SUFFRAGE BILL TURNED DOWN The Irish Members Are Respon sible for the Defeat of the Measure. London, May 6: The fate of the woman's suffrage bill was sealed tonight by the" votes of more than fifty Irish National-jtwhoi;V(,asftfAk;T National-jtwhoi;V(,asftfAk;T enfranthwe ,000;000 wotiMHV was rejected bjra majority o'f forty-seven. The vote stood 266 to 219. Whether there is any cjiance that the present parliament will pass a bill of more limited character char-acter may be doubted. Possibly the Nationalists fear that if they allow a woman's franchise bill to pass the second reading it will lead to parliamentary struggle, strug-gle, which would not unlikely end in dissolution of parliament before the home rule bill becomes be-comes a law.N Furthermore, the debate today proved that the militant policy of the suffargists lias done the cause of great harm as far as parliament is concerned. The conciliation bill of last session was rejected by only a small majority compared with the Dickinson bill, which was under discussion today, and previous bill, giving some measure of enfranchisement to women, have passed the second reading, although they never survived subsequent stages. Recent police court disclosures of acts of incendiarism planned by the militants, are surpassing in magnitude anything heretofore hereto-fore attempted, and the burning of St. Catherine's church at Hatchem today undoubtedly influenced in-fluenced many members to vote against the bill. |