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Show ! SUFFRAGISTS LOSE I BY JUSTONE VOTE I SENATE DECLINES TO APPROVE HOUSE RESOLUTION FOR SUFFRAGE SUF-FRAGE AMENDMENT. f Women Fail in Final Effort to Secure the Ballot, Vote in Senate Being One Shy of Necesoary Two-Thirds. Washing!, ,ii. T. llo)(.s ,f f.uf fragisls were again dashed t the ground on February 10, when the sen-! sen-! ate rejected lb.- woman .suffrage constitutional con-stitutional ainen.linent. The house resolution for submission of the amendment failed of adoption with 55 votes in favor of it and 29 against, Just one vote less than the necessary two-thirds. . Thus ended what leading sutTra-e champions had said in advance woulc be the final test of this session of. congress. con-gress. The suffrage advocates went Into die test with the knowledge that they lacked one vote, hut hoping to the last that the one vote would be won over. Immediately after the vote was announced, an-nounced, leaders' of woman's organizations organi-zations announced that the fight would be carried on in the next congress, In which the Republicans will hold both senate and liou.se, mid which, friends of the resolution declared they believed, be-lieved, are certain to adopt a new measure. Senators Nugent of Idaho, Pithnan of Nevada, Smoot of Utah and King of Utah were for the measure ; Senator Sena-tor Borah of Idaho voted against the measure. The senate first voted on the Susan B. Anthony amendment in 1SS7. sixteen six-teen senators being recorded for it and thirty-four against it. The next vote was in 1914, senators dividing thirty-flve thirty-flve for and thirty-four against On October 1, 1918, the vote was fifty-four to thirty, or two less than the necessary neces-sary majority. I The one vote gained Monday was that of Senator Pollock of South' Carolina, Caro-lina, Democrat, who spoke in vigorous suppor of the measure. Senator Pollock Pol-lock succeeded former Senator Benet |