| Show LOSE BY JUST ON E VOTE SENATE DECLINES TO APPROVE HOUSE resolution FOR SUF FRAGE AMENDMENT women fall in vinal final effort to secure the tha ballot vote in senate being ono one shy of hec necessary essary two thirds washington the hapes of the suf were again dashed to tho the ground on february 10 when the senate rejected tho the woman suffrage cou con amendment the howie house resolution solution ie tor for submission oatha of the amendment failed faile of adoption with 55 votes in favor of it and 29 against just juat one vote less than the necessary two thirds thus ended what lending leading suffrage champions had said tit in advance would be the final fintel test of this session of 0 congress the suffrage a irockus advocates Iroc kes went ve into the test ie st with voth the knowledge that i they ahey lacked one vote bu but t hoping to the last that the one vote would be won over immediately aft after erthe the vote was announced leaders of womans comans organizations announced that the fight would be carried on in the next congress in which tile the republicans will hold both sennie senate find anu house aria and which friends of the resolution declared they believed Il nr are e certain to adopt a new mek measure sure senators nugent t of idaho pittman of nevada smoot of utah and kin king g tf utah were for ahe the measure senator bardh of idaho voted aga against insi th the measure the senate sennie first vot voted edo on n the susan susa B Ant anthony lioni amendment in 1887 six c teen senators being recorded boiu for it and thirty four against it the lexi next vote was in 1914 senators dividing thirty five tor for and thirty tour our against on loc october tober 1 1918 was fifty four to thirty ortho or two than the necessary majority 1 1 the one vote gained monday was that senator of pollock of south carolina democrat who spoke in vigorous support offee of fhe measure rnea surd senator pollock succeeded former senator denet benet who voted last october in opposition and will retire himself next month |
