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Show WOMEN HAVEWDN FIGHT jl BALLOT SUFFRAGE IS INDORSED BY BRITISH BRIT-ISH PREMIER AND WOMEN MAY VOTE. Franchise Reforms to be Granted in Recognition of Sacrifices and Services Ser-vices of Wflmen of England in World War. London. After an interesting debate de-bate on March 28 the house of commons com-mons by a majority of 279 expressed approval of legislation on the lines of the speaker's conference recommendations recommenda-tions for franchise reform. The small minority against such a measure represented not the actual opponents op-ponents of reform hut rather members who were desirous of postponing legislation leg-islation of such a contentious character charac-ter until after the war. The great feature of the debate was the frank acceptance by ex-Premier Asquith and Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor chan-cellor of the exchequer, of women's right to vote as a result of their war sacrifices and services, and Premier Lloyd George's whole-hearted acceptance accept-ance of the conference recommendation. recommenda-tion. He was even willing to go still further and make the qualifying period pe-riod three instead of six months. A small party in the commons expressed ex-pressed their continued opposition to women's suffrage, but their numbers were too small to carry great weight. The nationalists announced that thejt would support Mr. Asquith's motion. As the result of the debate the government, gov-ernment, as Mr. Bonar Law announced, will proceed with legislation to give effect to the recommendations of the conference. |