Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-08-24 | Page 13 | Action on Woman Suffrage Urged

S ACTION ON WOMAN 1 SUFFRAGE URGED ! Senate Republicans Ask for t Earliest Possible Date to Be Set for Vote. ' nrASFIlNGTON. Aug. 24. Repubil- ' o of the senate In conferepce today I ntcd a resolution urging action at ; ?iTarJIc5t possible dato on the pend-' pend-' ,Z federal woman suffrage amend -x ; nt The resolution did not advise Jq Republican membership how to ; voi-hC action was proposed by Senator i f rill of Now Mexico and was taken on ft 1 viva voce vote of about thirty sena-'1 sena-'1 I ton ; present with virtually no opposi- tl0o resolution sets forth that "we " v ' hall insist upon such consideration "3 i immediately after disposition of the I rJndlnE unfinished business (the na- ' Si war time prohibition bill) with ft 111 amendments thereto, provid-l provid-l d that this resolution shall not be. - ' construed as in any way binding the ; i;(jon or vote of any member of the ' ; senate upon the merits of the said ' ' woman suffrage amendment." t Republican senators regard their ( action as placing upon Democratic i( nanagers of the woman suffrage rcso-, rcso-, I lutlon the responsibility for any furtb-' furtb-' :! er delay. The resolution was adopted '. hy the house last January. -1 At present, according to polls of its ' friends, the "resolution probably would i : be defeated by two or three votes. The ; death of Senator Galllnger of New -! Hampshire weakened the strength of ! tho bill s supporters. oo