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Show o e o SNARL lH TENNESSEE RATIFICATION INJUNCTION BY illS DELAYS FINAL ACTION Suffrage Supporters Claim Full Legislative Triumpli on Saturday OPPONENTS DECLARE THEY HAVE WON OUT Opposition Hopes to Tangle Issue in Legal Snarls Until Too Late NASHVILLE. Tenn ., Aug :i Al ihonrh Tenneesaee's ratification of stif frage Btood nn the record Of the house ; tonight as flnall) confirmed a snarl of lega! and legislative technicalities remained to be disposed of before ac ' ion ( an be certified. Suffrage supporters who in the house todaj overcame every obstacle. .claimed full legislative triumph. The declalred onl a temporary injunction secured by the antis prevented imme-diote imme-diote eertificai lonto Secretary Colby. Speaker Walker opposition leader, and . . ores of his lieutenants said the suf rffaglsfs bad ruined their cause and j that should the courts hold ratification legal, the litigation would so delay de in that the amendment would not figure in the November election unless j sortie other state ratified LEAVE THE STATE Meanwhile, iwentv-flve legislators opposed to suffrage, were in Decatur. ' alabatpa, evading service to prevent an legislative action until a new legll Inture Is elected in No ember Thc ; hurried across the state line in a bod;, early today The restraining order, granted bv kludge 1 angford, Is rejtttrnablbe in five days. It wga Issued on an application Jcontending that under the state constitution con-stitution this legislature has no power to pass on suffrage. Governor Roberta and other officials were forbidden to irertifv to Washington lhat ratification had been completed ;ui.i Speakers of the senate and hou-.e restrained from taking action toward ratification until 'the matter is heard by the court SHORT OF QUORUM W hen the bouse met today all suf-fra suf-fra gists and ; few opposition members w. re on hand. A roll call showed 59 present, or seven short of a quorum. -speaker Walker declared a recess and ordered the sergeant at arms lo j arrest absentees. He reported non- I appeared to be here T K Uiddick. BUffraglsl floor leader. I declaring actiuf on suffrage, was a 'federal matter and tURt the state laws as regards a quorum did nut apply, moved that the Walker motion for re consideration be acted upon Speaker 1 Walker requested h in to put ihe mo ,tion in writing. j A brief reress followed While Rid-dick Rid-dick was transcribing his motion and in the meantime the injunction prohibiting pro-hibiting certification was served on the speaker MOTION OFFERED Rtddlck fin-illy offered the motion amended 10 proide that the house re', consider its ratification. Walker ruled the motion out of order or-der lor lack of a quorum und added that the Injunction just served alsj stood in the way un an appeal th house tailed lo sustain the ruling and Walker called Representative Joe Iodic, suffragist, to the chair Odle ordcied a roll call on Rlddlck'fl ! motion. Walker made a point of or '. der thai there a as no quorum, but was 'iguored and the suffragists defeated ithf motion to reconsider, 5n to 9 SPEAKER IGNORED Rtddlck then moved that the bouae transmit to lbs Benate the senate Joint resolution of ratification. Again Walk Of made a point, of no quorum and also challenged the riut ol the speaker pro toui to put any motion relating lo the i amendment in view of the injunction. Aaln Chile ignored Walker, ordered 'the roll call and the motion carried. 1 50 to 0, anils not voting. Adjournment Adjourn-ment until Monday was taken AJntlSUffrage leaders declared that tho procedure could not be held legal. Speaker Walker paid that on that pre Cedent he would be w;,dn his rights if ha organized an automobile party of tin bolting r.ntis at Jicoatur .- Tossed I into Tennessee, and. declaring the 'Ivor 'Iv-or six members l quorum, held a session ses-sion and rescinded ihe action of the house in ratifying. REFUSES TO SIGN j No power on aarib would torce him 1 (Continued on l'ugc Two.) Injunction hy Anils j Delays Fisial Action (Continued from Page One) to sifin the resolution under the present pres-ent circumstances, Walker aaid Speaker Todd of thcyienatc BSid the j resolution hcmIci1 iio sigtialures. The suffragists expressed pride in what they termed Ibelr steam roller"' tactics They declared the legislative bdttle vv as o cr USE Ol W ILKOTJT" NASHVILLE, Tenn . Aug. 1 Since the days when Andrew Johnson was merely a state figure In politics a Pgislatlv-e "walk out" hoa ben weapon Invoked In the Tennessee leg-, islature as a lat resort and all fac-, Hons have resorted to It The first "walkout" was ataged In the senate in 1S41 when thirteen Democrats, one of whom W8S Andrew Johnson, broke a quorum to prevent the election of: two W higs tO the United Btatet senate the result being thai TenneSSSl was i without representation there for the enduing two years The thirteen aena- tors figuring In the incident are known In political tradition as "the Immortal thirteen." In 1 883, to defeat n registration bill, Itepubll.-a n sermlors i in r i lea ,bd them-, selves In rooms in a hob-l. Thev Were fed three oi four doya bj hauling baskets Of provisions scrni- tha street 1 on a rope vm .MPT i 1 1 s In 190P to Invalidate nev election lews. Democratic senators ftroke a quorum and lefl for KopklnSVille, Kentucky, continuing out of the state Week, This filibuster failed under the holding of the supreme court When 'be assembly met Januarj 2, 1911 thirty -seven members, "regular" Democrats, refused to take tht oath; and tied Up thS legislature until .Tarn, nrv 7 when an iiKi'c' nil n. MVaS rsgt bed providing for withdrawal "t ontssta QUORUM BROKEN On April 13, 1911 the same session, house "independent" Democrats and 1 Republicans broke a quorum, going to Decatur Alabama as n result of the capture i ;.",.. 1,- 'regular" Demoorata and Jeopardising u; the election '.w and thl prohibition law. ., Th'. 'walkout lasted a month, the absentees returning Ma) 11 DelibSI i tlon.s finallv WOTS resumed June 2J House Republleuns and Independent Democrats on April 1, 1913 filibuster i ed. leaving the Htate to prevent a chanre in election laws. 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