| Show Vol 01 uL IC TCo 1 0 S OMENS OMEN'S SUFFRAGE BILL II DEFEATED IN PARLIAMENT V DY BY IRISH NATIONALISTS i 0 Measure to Enfranchise Women in Great Britain Is R Rejected Re- Re Rejected 1 I by Vote of to 21 9 I I J L T I O OX May G. G Time The Tho fate of the women's 8 suffrage bill billas was as seale sealed tonight b by the votes of more than fifty than fifty Irish Nationalists who voted vot-ej against it Time The bill hill whereby it was sought bought to enfranchise women was was' va rejected by a majority of forty se The vole stood 2 O to Whether there is an any chance that the present parliament will pass a bill of more limited l character may ruay be doubted Possibly the Nationalists fear that if the they allow a women women's s 's franchise bill to pass the second reading reading it will lead to a parliamentary struggle which would woul not unlikely end in dissolution dissolution dissolution dis dis- solution of parliament before time the home rule rate bill becomes a law furthermore l' the debate toda today prO proved prOd d that the time militant polI policy of or tho the suffragists suffragists ha has done the time cause great harm as fur far us as nt is concerned The conciliation bill but of last session e slon was rejected rejected re re- re- re b by only a n small majority compared compared com corn pared with tho time Dickinson bill which was under nailer discussion today and anti previous previous pre pre- Ious bills giving givIng- some same measure of en enfranchisement tn em- to w women men have passed usel the second reading although the thc they never survived subsequent stages tag t Militancy Recent police court coult disclosures of or acts of planned b by th the militants tar tai surpassing sinS sinS' lm In ma magnitude anything heretofore attempted and the tile burning of uC St. St Catherines church at toda today undoubtedly influenced man many members to vote oto against the bill The figures of or the showing th the defeat of oC the bill were wore greeted with a u. great cheer from frem all sides ide of or the time hou house C The Tite debate which on Monday Mon 1011 da day proceeded with extraordinary apathy today was characterized char d b by in intensity In- In tensil nn and brilliant speeches The house was crowded and pervaded with I an atmosphere of or electrical excitement The rIle stran strangers strangers' galleries alleri J w were ro packed an and man many anxious faces Laces peered front from I behind the time guarded grill gallery de devoted de de- voted Yo to Neither ther c Andrew n Bonar Law leader r of the tho opposition nor noi A. A J J. J Balfour voted In time the division Amon Among g the mimi mih- K L who voted a against ah the bill wei Premier Asquith Reginald l Lewis Harcourt J J. J K E B. B Seel Seely Cb Churchill a td ld d O iV i e Tbt rIi Tb i I Q th thc tl Sir GJ Gre Lloyd flod George Rufus ts Isaacs ac Bin yom C. C F F. G G. G Sir f J J. J V. V Simon and md F. F 1 D. D Acland chand cJan her f GO Go eminent ta Coo Cour Coure rc c. c When the debate wa was ns resumed this afternoon the time premier defended c time the government o c course ur e saying saying- a ing it wa was consistent con con- with tho time best traditions atI of at I British h state statesmanship He lie regretted that he found at I variance from ron his colleagues on tho the thoI I suffrage Uon and greatly a as 3 h he I would woul re regret severing No himself from thoI tho the I prosecution of great causes he lie would woul lay In down his office If lC his Ills colleagues colleagues- e cr ever suggested suggested- that the they did r not feel feI justified in follo government tho the hea head of or which was opposed to them The They never did that declared tho Limo premier amid cheers Mr Ir Hulth said Eald tho the bill created new now voters and it had never no been approved b by the thc existing electo electo- rate He lie continued Would our political fabric bo strengthened would our legislative legislative- fabric bo more respected would our OUI Continued on Page 3 3 Column 4 4 I T WOMAN SUFFRAGE BILL BILLIS IS DEFEATED BY IRISH VOTES Continued lr From Page Pago 1 social and ond domestic life lICe be enriched would our standard of or m manners and manners and b by manners I mean the old fashioned virtues of ot ch chivalry courtesy and interdependence interdependence inter inter- dependence of or tho the sexes on one another an an- other other other-be be raised or refuted refined if It women were given the vote Cries of or Of course courso they would were raised on all sides shIes of the tIle hou house o The Time premier strongly denied that parliament had been neglectful of or women and amid said sale he lie saw aw n no evidence that British a as a whole wanted the tile vot vote V I Gr Grey Support nUt mil Sir Edward Edvard Groy Grey secretary for foreign for eign affairs supported tho the bill Heald He said ald there thoro was ample evidence that a cry lar lare o section 0 of tho the women t of the time country had shown b by constitutional I means that thc they favored the enfranchisement of or their sex Militancy hO characterized as the Inconsiderate Iii ln considerate and criminal conduct of a a. small bol body of oC representative Individuals als with whoso outrages tho law la had dealt and ought to deal severely sc Nobody ho lie said had greater reason to deplore the methods of the militant suffragists han those who desired the enfranchisement of women omen but he argued argued ar ar- ar gued that their outrages should not In Influence influence In- In fluence luc ce the decision of the time house He lie contended that the demonstrated attitude e of or women In dealing with abstruse ab abstruse ab- ab economic questions involved ol in social and industrial l legislation proved cd that the they were possessed of sufficient intelligence to pass pals Judgment on questions questions ques ques- of foreign policy which were tero far Car farless less leis complicated and anti seldom an issue at nt atthe atthe the general elections I p 0 |
