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Show OUTLOOK FOR SUFFRAGE DARK IN TENNESSEE' I CLOSE RESULT PREDICTED BY BOTH FACTIONS Suffragists Lose Five Supporters Support-ers in Last Few Days, Is Ciaim Made NORTH CAROLINA IS SCENE OF FIGHT, TOO , Friends of Amendment Hopeful Hope-ful of Result in Legislature at Raleigh VASHVU 11 . i2 it i be Tennessee house adjourned ihis afternoon until ten o clock tomorrow tomor-row niornlnjt without taking action ac-tion on ratification of the federal Suffrage amendment. ChC vote on the motion for adjournment ad-journment wa- S3 to ! and va-regarded va-regarded pa a vntorv fOl the imtl-ratiflcnUonl.sls. imtl-ratiflcnUonl.sls. Three hour's of debate on ratification rati-fication proceeded adjournment ami attempts were made to force a vote-. The house however BCCTTfM (Tlsposcd to grant every member who desired an opportunity oppor-tunity ii apeak, i(nii before noon tomorrow was regarded r ert tin RALEIGH, Auk it The Norlli CarOlllU senate- fale todaj voted to postpone action on ratification rati-fication Of federal woman suffrage suf-frage to the m vi regular session pi the general assembly. The rote was to -3. NASHVILLE. Tenn., Aug LV. Mem bers of the Tennessee house went into session today pr pared U) vote- on rati flcatlon of the federal suffrage amendment. amend-ment. Favorable action un the ratification ratif-ication resolution already approved hv I the senate would make Tennessee t lie I j thirty-sixth state to ratify the amendment amend-ment and would give the ballot to Ihe j women of the entire country. Both advocates nnd opponents of ; suffrage went Into the final stage of 'ihe light with confidence. Leaders of. J the two factions made conflicting claims as to the probable result of thej i vote, but they generally agreed that i me result vvuniu u ciose. Leaders in lhe house said the coni-Imittee coni-Imittee which last night agreed to re-.port re-.port the ratification resolution recom-, 'mending adoption would make its report re-port during tne day Debate on the report re-port was expected to begin at once and 1 it was expected that action would b' taken b fore the house recessed until tomorrow. The committee which con j isidered the ratification resolution vot- j ed 10 to 8 to recommend adoption. PREDICTS DEFEAT Speaker Setli Valker: leader of the anti-suffrage forces, predicted that the amendment would be rejected. Suf-, frage advocates, althouph they admit ted that five of the seven representatives representa-tives from Davidson county (Nash ville) considered pledged to suffrage, had gone over to the opposition, de-1 idared they were still confident of sue-; cess. Fifty voles is the constitutional .majority necessary for ralifitai Ion. . Basing their claims on polls, suffragists suffra-gists have contended that 53 to 60 representatives rep-resentatives would vote for ratifica-tion. |