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Show i9 ? ? V V V J 99 v FOES Of SUff RAGE SUSTAIN NEW DEFEAT 1 . FAIL TO DUE NEW ACTION ON KBTEJi HOUSE Suffragist Friends Shown to Be Still in Majority in Tennessee I N ASm n.LE, Aug 20. Suffrage leaders forced adjournment of the Ten nessee house roda before Speakei I Walker made any motion to reoonsld er the ratification of the federal suf-frare suf-frare amendment Opponents thus lost their r.ghts to offer a motion to reconsider re-consider but the suffrage forces plan ned to make such a motion tomorrow then table it, thui making Impossible; an further parliamentary tactics to reconsider the original action 1 After the amendment was ratified ! Wednesday . Speaker Walker changed j his vote from nay lo ae. in order thai ht might be In a position to offer 8 ! motion for reconsideration, but the time expired today ludge Joseph Higgins of Nashville, 'president of the Tennessee constitu tional league stated today In prepared to sue out a wrll 01 injunction against ! Governor Roberts and secretary o; j state restraining ilreni from certifying the resolution to Washington on tho grounds 1 hat ihe legislature was prohibited pro-hibited by the state cons: ltution from aiuir" -'in ihe ajoiendniont. I NAPzH'lL-LE AAig- 20--ThoTen-j nessee house adjourned today until ten la. m. tomorrow without an attempt of the ahtwsliffragists to force re-oon-s'tderatiojj of the house action In rti-; rti-; lying iho federal suffrage amendment Th. moltotl te- adjourn was offered b a suffrage leMfler and carried by an ' o"erwhelmlng la voce vote. Failure of Speaker Walker to move j rc-con.ilderation was taken as an Indication Indi-cation that the opposition had not S -j cured enough pudges to rescind the . ratification action. The antl-suffraglsts sought to have the house adjourn until Monday but the suffragists voted their motion (down, the movement being defeated by 'the same vote h which the ratification ratifica-tion resolution was adopted Wednesday, Wednes-day, 49 to 47 |