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Show SUFFRAGISTS ARE REFUSED. House Rules Committee Declines to Create Standing Committee. Washington. -Democrats of the house rules committee on Saturday refused re-fused to report a rule to create a standing committee on woman suffrage suf-frage in the house. After much discussion the Democratic Democrat-ic majority concluded that the time was not ripe for the creation of a rep-arate rep-arate committee on the subject. The action comes after a long campaign of the women suffragists in which the anti-suffrage organization made a spirited fight. The vote of the Democratic majority, major-ity, which must be submitted to the entire committee, was four to .three. . |