Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1918-10-04 | Page 2 | Senators down Suffrage

SENATORS DOWN SUFFRAGE. Federal Amendment Resolution Lacks Necessary Two-thirds Majority. Washington. The senate on October 1 refused to grant the request of the president that the woman suffrage resolution be passed as a war measure. meas-ure. After five days of bitter debate, corridor conferences and cloakroom negotiations, the Susan B. Anthony federal amendment resolution enacted by the house last January received on the final roll call two votes less than the necessary two-thirds majority. major-ity. Fifty-four senators were recorded for it and thirty against if. with twelve absent and paired. Before the vote was announced Senator Sen-ator Jones of New Mexico, chairman of the woman suffrage committee, to comply with parliamentary requirements, require-ments, changed his vote from the affirmative af-firmative to the negative and moved that, the senate reconsider. Chairman Jones and other chain pious of the resolution declared aftei the vote that the defeat is only temporary, tem-porary, and that the contest will he renewed after the November elections, when changes in membership are certain.