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Show WILSON ASKS FOR SUFFRAGE. Tills Senate That Passage of Bill Is Necessary as War Measure. Washington. In a personal address to the senate on September 30, President Presi-dent Wilson asked for the passage of the woman suffrage federal amendment amend-ment resolution as a vital war measure. meas-ure. ''It is my duty to win the war," said the president, "and to ask you to remove re-move every, obstacle that stands in the way of winning It. I tell you plainly that this measure which I urge upon you is vital to the winning of the war and to the energies alike of preparation prep-aration and of battle. And not to the winning of the war only, it is vital to the right solution of the great problems prob-lems which we must settle, and settle immediately, when the war is over." |