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Show uu SUFFRAGE BILL STILL BEFORE ! BRITISH HOUSE LONDON, July 4 The woman r. emancipation bill is still before the, 1 uuse of commons, notwithstanding j an effort by the government today to have It set aside to make way for a DCW measure on the subject. Major! Waldorff-Aator's motion to reject It WM defeated by a ote of 100 to So. i The bill, backed by the labor party. ili been before the commons for sev- era months. The emancipation bill now before , i the house of commons was designed to give women political and lecal equality equal-ity with men. It included a provisii permitting women to bit in the huu or lords. A London dispatch received Pi I was so garbed in transmission as to make it appear that the bill Itself haJ I been defeated. oo |