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Show JtNNESSElllSE WEGONSIDEBS ME eCMK5cPUNGrS FROM ITS JOURNAL TALL RECORD OF RATIFICATION BB OF SUFFRAGE. ,Ketln Taken by Anti. Suffragists In ,, BFace of Advice of Attorney General, Who Insists That Leoal Recon-B Recon-B slderatlon Is Impossible. illJB? ,.,Pwnslivlll Tonn. Tho Tcnnessco UIS!1 of representatives, with a IdJfW?""" present for tlio first time since cK'f 20. expunged' from Its Journal fl3riv,,U',,1,K'r l "" rocor(1 of nitlflcu-reft1 nitlflcu-reft1 "f "'" f,l!rill suffrage nmond-ttttEi". nmond-ttttEi". """! voted, -17 to 21, with twenty ImStV vo,'"K' t0 non-concur In the nc-jXtlon nc-jXtlon of the somite In ratifying tho .Tanfflend'iient. 1(3PVPnior UoherlH upon being notl-fjjRl notl-fjjRl of lhi house's action, declined to to rI;t' ""v slal0,",,nl n""T tliiin to sny i Up1 tlu' H'"liltl,' '"i"hl only be dealt o jvTth In a legal niiinner and was In tjw hand of Attorney General Thomp-fr Thomp-fr m. Tli latter, In a letter read on jjj jjw house floor during discussion of SB; tnatior of reconsidering tho vote, , Expressed tho opinion that reconsideration reconsid-eration of the resolution of ruttflca-1 ruttflca-1 jFfii was Impossible, since tho houso already had adopted It and Governor Roberts had certified to Secretary of '. r! 2?lc t!"l1y this action hy both houso 1 1 25 w'"rttJ' '(State officials and member of tho jjSlslaturp expressed the belief that .fWSfhllfy or Illegality of tho ratification I Pra1'1 '" Jec,,'l'J IID0 tli record ccr-Itlrfcd ccr-Itlrfcd to Washington by (lovernor Hob- J&rtB mid not on tlie action taken Tues- ia Vhortly after tho house convened It j Sff1"0 evident that the nnti-nitlflca- aionlHtii. n majority of whom havo boen 'lr"vKjjjAlnbutra on n filibuster for inoro StTmJi u woek, wero In tho majority, jftthwingli failure of sovcral of the suf- "'' frago members to arrive In time. With chx'kllho program tho untls proceeded 2Eut u,roi,K ,ll0lr IIn r attempt-faL4" attempt-faL4" l,m, w,mt W,s d"ono August riSiwlien ratification wus accom- |
