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Show SUFFRAGE FOES HWAIT BATTLE Both Sides in the Tennessee Struggle Express Contidence in Final Victory NASHVILLE. Tenn . Aug 14. Both Hides In tho suffrage fight before be-fore the Tenne-isee legislature were! confident of success as they awaited i honewal of tho contest r.ext week Though the senate ratified I'rlday, the hardest test is to come in the house .1 Replying today to ' message from; Preeldi at Wilson expressing hope that the house would ratify. Speaker S walker toiegrtphed that the president! I was 'too great to ask It" and he did' not believe the men of Tenneasei would "surrender honest eonvlctlons for political expedlenc or harmony." : Mr. Walk r, who is house leader of: the opposition, toltl the president he !:-poko for himself alone. The house committee In charge of j the suffrage resolution is to meet Monday night and a report Is expect-j ed Tuesday. Several opposition lenders s-id to-! day they were certain of a slight majority, ma-jority, but suffrage advocates still j stood by their poll of from 63 to 60. 1 Fifty votes are necessary. Senator McKellar dechtved thoj cmendniont would be ratified. Mls Sue White, Tennesseo state chairman of the national woman's party, however, was not so optimistic 'Our foes are not yet finally defeat-1 cd." she said Telegrams expressing dell.-ht at the victory in the senate continued to teach headquarters of suffrage organizations. |