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Show SUFFRAGE LOSES IN LOWER HOUSE Washington, Jan 12. The houso of representatives tonight, by a vote of 204 to 174, refused to submit to tho stateB an amendment to enfranchise women, Tho vote, the second in the history' of congress on the woman suffrage Issue, came at the close of a day of long-prnpared-for oratory, during whir-h the many speakers were listened lis-tened to with frequent evidences of approval or disapproval by packed gallorifl The question was before the houso on the Mondell resolution to submit a constitutional amendment amend-ment 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 bv 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, is-sue, strongly opposed the resolution while Republican Leader Mann wns one of the chief speakers for the suffragists suf-fragists Enthusiasm mingled with dejection dejec-tion when Speaker Clark announced the result, and into the corridors from opposite galleries filed the hundreds hun-dreds of suffragists, with their purple pur-ple and yellow sashes, and the red rose-bedecked anti-suffragists. This was the second defeat for the suffrage cause in the national legislature legis-lature within a year. March 19 last an equal suffrage constitutional amendment purposed by Senator Chamberlain of Oregon, received a vote of .15 to 34 in the senate, securing secur-ing a bare majority, but falling of the necessary two-thirds However, suffragist leaders tonight were not dismayed. As tho left the galleries, led by Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt and other champions cham-pions or the cause, they declared that the fight was by no means over and that the suffrage propaganda would be pressed forward and onward until every woman In America would have thp right to cast a ballot. "The result was what w e expected. ' sairl Mrs Arthur M. Dodge, president of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage "It means that the suffrage movement, fostered by hysterical women. Is on the wane" Often during the earnest and at times hitter debate preceding the vote Speaker Clark was forced to interrupt inter-rupt the speakers on the floor, fill the chamber with the deafening battering bat-tering of his gavel, and warn both mnmbers and spectators that order must be preserved. Several times he threatened to have the galleries clear- eu uiuess me uisiurDance subsided. But the murmurs of approval and disapproval persisted as each speaker voiced his support for or opposition to the cause of "votes for women " Tho turmoil culminated in a storm of hissing that greeted a speech made by Representative Bow die of Ohio opposing op-posing the amendment He had treated the subject humorously and remarked that the "women of Washington Wash-ington are beautiful, but they have no interest in affairs of state." Opponents of the resolution based their opposition largely on the argument ar-gument that for the federal government govern-ment to prescribe qualification for suffrage would be an unwarranted ln-aslon ln-aslon of the right ofindividual states to control their elections and further upon the contention that there was no adequate "public demand" for thir-amendment thir-amendment showing it to be "necessary," "neces-sary," Advocates of the amendment contended con-tended that the widespread demand for woman suffrage, its success in the states where it haa been tried, and tho principle of "allowing th1 people to rule" justified the submission submis-sion of the proposal to the states for ratification. |