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Show O G $ fr $ o SUFFRAGISTS OF TENNESSEE ARE ENCOURAGED ADVOCATES WIN ANOTHER POINT FOR SUFFRAGE Resolution Prohibiting Action Toward Ratification is Voted Down in House TENNESSEE'S DECISION MAY COME TOMORROW South Carolina Legislators Assert Majority Will Vote Against it ! NASHVILLE, Aug. 1j Suffragists , in the lower house of the Tennessee j legislature loduy won another point In jlhe fight for ratification of the suf-Crage suf-Crage amendment w hen a joint resolu-jtlon resolu-jtlon which would have prohibited action ac-tion on any kind of ratification wus tabled ta-bled by a ia voce vote M Y OT! FRIDAY. NASHVILLE, Tenn , Aug. 111. Encouraged En-couraged by a test vote In the lower house which showed the suffragists In the majority, leaders of the ratification ratifica-tion llgnt in the Tennessee legislature were busy shaping plans for a Joint hearing tonight and a probable ote Friday morning. Tht test vole came on a resolution to refer ratification to the counties in U i.-.s-mccting-. on. August t& . Setii. WaTReV, speaker of tho house, left the Chair to fight for the resolution and made a vigorous plea for Us adoption. adop-tion. Suffrage leaders were disconcerted discon-certed but hope revived with the failure fail-ure of an amendment proposing that the referendum would not be binding in less a majority of the Qualified voters vot-ers pnrticlpu.:ed. This was followed by the- tabling 01 the original resolution bj a vote of 6u to 37. Antl-SUffrage leaders Insisted that the vote did not repieseiit a correct poll. They heid that Republican strength, which went almost solidly for lhe resolution and which proposed the amendment that was defeated, vvas merely a trick to put the Democratic I urty in a hole Suf f r.iK..st j admitted mat the vole did not 1 tu csciit final totals. Governor Kobr-rls vvas On the flooi w 01 king Creel with members during the fht tie is a suitragtsi advocate. advo-cate. .Nashville s afternoon newspapers Carried paid advertisements announc ing mui sun-; tor sianuer vvouiii ue instituted in-stituted if any more charges wire I made that the anti-suffrage women were working tinder the direction of I lhe saloon interests. The hearing tonight will be before I the Joint house committee on constitutional consti-tutional amendments. Reference of jthc amendment to these committees Instead of to the Judiciary committees was taken lo be a victory for the suf-Ifr&gists, suf-Ifr&gists, since the chairman of the house Judiciary committee is an avow-'id avow-'id opponent ol suffrage. Nt'lllli 1 AUuiiN v REF1 3ES. I RALL1UH. X C, Aug- 12 SL.iy-, SL.iy-, ihrce ol the 120 members of the lower house of lhe North Carolina lcglohi-;turo lcglohi-;turo sent a message to the Tennessee legislature, assuring that body that North Carolina would not ratlf) the federal suffrage amendment una asking ask-ing that tin amendment be not forced 1 upon the people of North Carolina by '1 1 nnessee "We. tlu- undersigned members of the hous" oi representatives of me general assembly of North Carolina, constituting the majority of said body' the telegram rend, "send greet -Ings to the general assembly of Tennessee Ten-nessee and assure ou that we will not ratify the Susan IS. Anthonv amendment interfering with the sover-eignty sover-eignty Of Tennessee and other slates. 1 most respectfully request that this measure be not forced upon ihe people ol North Carolina." If lhe Sixty -three signers of tho message vote in accordance with their expressed views, the amendment will b defeated In the house by six votes. Harry P. Grler and Lindsay Warren, anti-leaders in the house and senato respectively, tonight claimed four additional ad-ditional votes In the lower house i-'iust ratification. BuffraglstS appeared to be undls-Unbed, undls-Unbed, however, looking to pressure from national leaders to overcome the apparent lead of tho opponents. The amendment has not been submitted sub-mitted by Governor Hlckett. The gov-J 1 1 nor stated that he expected tc IDA-plele IDA-plele a brief message to the general assembly Thursday and probably would transmit it Friday or Satuiday. |