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ii'iiie Hews aurMii Observer :-i ST4 TC1I LtxLZ Ml MS 4 M l Man m aa4 H ill Partly cleady weather with local UaaerasvwwM Bator nil I y VOL CXI. NO. 47 TWELVE PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH N. C. SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 14. 1920 TWELVE PAGES TODAY. PRICE: FIVE CENTS NipSSEEiSENM3EPQR ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION FOR BA3sEEEiaEOJRiRATJEIGATION ES IN )F THE ANTHONY AMENDMENT LAUNCHED IN LEGISLATURE RATIFICATION OF AMENDMENT RATES ON EXPRESS GRANTS AUTHORITY FOR INCREAS u REAL BATTLE SET FOR LOVER HOUSE v .-. ...... . - .. . . .t i . Committee i Which Now Has . Resolution May Consider It On Monday Night nn--nMs SUFFRAGISTS SURPRISED i , AT VICTORY IN SENATE .Bouse ; Adjourns UntiI Hon da J Afternoon; Ratification Forcei Now Busy Working Tor Victory In Lower Body Vote ' In Senate On Besolu tion Wat 25 To i :r': tRK.8IDENT WILSON URGES LOWER HOUSE TO KATlfT Washington, Aag. llPrldet W ilea a, la a mmii tonight to Speaker Walker, of the Tenaoesse Heat ef Represeatatlves eaeoarag cd fmnUt eetloa ta Federal '- - frag amendment by that body. Ths President ta hie meaaage aaid: "May 1 aat, la tha Intcraat ef a ttoaal harmony aad vigor aad af tha establishment af tha leadership f America la all liberal policies, "express the earnest hop that tha keaaa ever which yoa prcaida win concur la tha suffrage amendment?" Ka.hvllla T.nn All. 13. Tha Ten Besses Senate today, by a vote of 25 to a, adopted the resolution proviaing for ratification of tha nineteenth amend meat. It wai an easy victory for the suffrage forces, but even the most op--timiati wars surprised at the la r ma jority. Seventeen votee-were necessary, bnt most polls listed from 20 to 22 as favorable and tha high water mark ass set at 24. The suffragists, certain of ratification by the Senate, hava proeeeded from tha - beginning of tha legislative ees aion with the expectation that the real ntt viMilit h in tha lower house and I while their campaign in that quarter had WM relaxed, xna vers nu a-,,, Lten announced before tha workers ..,i., Klin, mttnrim In aecura fa- WCV I t '4 . - vorable action by tha representatives. ' -m,. liMiu ' iKininuil today nntil -venaiaer jwmj Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock without reference, ta urirag. out it was si d later tha committee to which the retolutipn' -w -referred would meet irht t& ennaider it. There wss - no- indication what aetion would be taken, but In connection witn rumors that the opposition might attempt to bury it in eommittea it was recalled an effort of suffragists to force ej. port today was defeated last night by arvote of 8 to 6 with four members absent. Senate Chamber psekea. - An hour before the senate convened ,ih gallsties and aislci were packed with spectators, among whom tha active ' pro and antt suffrage workers pre dominated. Speaker Todd had little difficulty in silencing the onlookers when tha body wss called to order and ' throughout the two hours of debats, during whien there were numerous demonstrations, was able to control tha situation with ease. i Big DeinonetratloBV But when the seventeenth vote In favor of ratification was recorded, th " pent-up enthusiasm of tha suffrage eo horta went beyond restraint and forced temporary suspension of tha roll call. When tha elerk resumed it waa doubted whether anyone outside tha small 'tami-eirele occupied by the members waa able to keep tally of the vote and knew at tha end what the total was. The suffragists were satisfied to know that seventeen, eenatore . had voted fa vorably. They redoubled their eheers when tha elerk shouted the total, above tha aproar and it was necessary Tor tha epeakes toeellpou-: tha . Sergeant. at-Arms before' tha chamber con Id la quieted sufficiently for work te be re sumed upon ether matter. Committee Retaraa Report. Both majority and minority reports were returned by the .committee which sad the resolution and immediately after presentation, adoption of the ma jority report was moved. A motion for .ilnntuin nt tha minority renort aa a mbatftttcastabled S3 M 'W. A 'point of order that thia legislature had no authority to act under the Tennessee teastitutioa waa overruled by the apeak er aad en aa appeal to the house tba ruling waa sustained by a vote of 17 to 8. Debata en the motion to adopt the majority report which then began, touched upon every known argument lor uu Bfmiosi suurage. - suu w iirn i iu lAina u r Iff THE HOUSE WEXT WEEK , Neahvllls, Tens, Aug. 11. With the adoption by the State Senate today of t resolution- ratifying - the-aational taffrage amendment, the 'fight nar rowed down to the Lower House, where it haa been known all week that th "real battle would be fought and where both, aides are claiming the antl-ratifi-tatioa forces had eoaeeded victory to their opponents in the ' Senate. It came by a vote of 18 to 4 thia morn ing. . Committee Haa Measere. . In the Bouse, however, the commit tee ea constitutional amendments, to ' which tha resolution waa referred, voted last night by a vote of 1 to 8 to defer any action on the bill nntil Monday night. . This means' that the resolution will bo in the hands of the committee until then with chance of th eom mittea holding H still longer. i : The vote of the committee to defer aetioa iadicated strongly that a m1 (CeaUaaed an Page Two) AMERICAN MINISTER .'- TO POLISH NATION 17 - Hugh Gibson, who Is to leave in the near, future for his poet of duty' at Warsaw. He hag beea oa leave in Wash iagton but the Polish situation requires his presence at the Foliah capital. Mr. Gibson' was formerly secretary of the United State legation in Belgium and waa very active in the efforts to aave Miss Edith C'avell, the nurse,' whose murder by the Germans sent a thrill of horror throughout the world during the days of the Great War. (Copyright Underwood and Underwood; Granville Citizen Explains Why He Stands For Suffrage The Bitkettaddrese to the General Assembly was not the only disappoint ing thing in the life oT att snti yes terday. Not lone ago Miss Mary Hil- Hard Hinton. president of - the Btate Branch of the Suffrage Rejection League wrote W. P. Stradley, of Oxford, te use hie influence, with the Oranvllle mem- bets to the end that - they might b persuaded to vote against ratification, This is what Mr. Stradley, who by the way is a son of the late Rev. J. A, Stradley, of Oxford, wrote Miss Hia- ton: 'In 1896 at the little towd of Ukiah, northern California, I had the pleas ure of speaking from the same platform with Susan Bi Anthony, the 'Grand Old Woman.' I was speaking for Bryan he was speaking in- favor of the- euf-j frage amendment which had been sub mitted. I voted for the amendment that year. That is one of the fondest rftenllMttlnna f nv life.C " During all ' my thinking yea re 1 1 have been an ardent advocate of fe male suffrage, of full eivie rights for women; and the flight of year the avue.lne.reaaina' . number of woman thrown upon their own resource bx4 the stress of industrial competition but deepens my conviction. Toe opposition or some women to their own emancipation from eivie in equality need to putxl me; but wbJ I learned tfinr after tne war many alavee petitioned to be returned to slavery, I became aware of the truth that we may become so habituated to status thatxehange seems painful. Some women have become ao used to a state of dependence upon the male with l. in .Jd .1. jihlvalw that they huddr-t the -4hought-,of independence. But give me the beau tiful eomradshlp of free men and free women. - . " f - - H0LT0N NOT. TO RETIRE FROM SENATORIAL RACE Winston-Salem, AugHl3. "Hadn't heard anything about it, but yoa uiay aay that there is nothing to it I havs ao Idea of retiring o witndrawmg in favor of anybody." thua expressed himself thia afternoon, when asked if he had seen in the Dur ham Sun the interview with the pub lisher of that paper, W. W. Weaver, during bis visit to New Tork, this week. Weaver, has it, according to tne new Tork interview, that there was possi bility of Holton withdrawing from the race for United States Senator in favor of ex-Judge W. P.' Bynum, of Greens boro. T .' : NEGRO IS TAKEN FROM " JAIL FOR SAFEKEEPING Winchester. Ya,v Aug. lrraak An derson, a negro, a sensed of aa attempted aaaault oa a white woman . ia Loudoun eounty, was eeeretety ' taken ' from th Jail at Leesburg, Va tonight while mob intent on lynching him was sur rounding it and brought to Winehajter by Sheriff Edwards for aafe-keeptag. Governor Davis ordered the step and militlamea at Winchester ;were instruct ed to remaia' in readinesa for call if further attempts at lynching appeared. A special guard waa also mounted at the .Winchester JaiL T 7 4 Amaricaa Bteaaaahlp Aahav Halifax,. N. S, Aug. 13. The Ameri can steamer Montara went ashore early today five mils east of Louisburg and baa beea abandoned by her crew, who landed safely, according ' , to wireless messages received here today by th Maria aad Pisherin Department. ANUS RECEIVE OTHER BAD NEWS REPUBLICANS WANT JOILEIIIINATE Control of Upper Body of Con gress To Be Chief Fea ture Of Campaign BOIES PENROSE GETS ALARMED OVER MATTER aaawsnaasBBBnaanam " Republicans Had Bather Hare Balanoo of Power In Senate Than The Presidency; Demo erats Confident, HoweTer, That They Will Control Body -"In Hext Session The Kewa and Obaerver Bureau, 60S District National Bank Bldg, By Bpeeial Leased -Wire.) Wasbingtstt, D. (X, August 18 The control of the next Beaate Is to be th chief battle ia the campaign ao far as the Bepublieane are concerned. They would rather lose the presidency than to loae the Senate. Senator Pen rose, the big Bepublican boss of Penn sylvania, aaya so, and and he ought to to know. He aay that to elect Hard ing with a Democratic Senate would be nothing short of a calamity to the Be- publicans. Penrose ia thinking that if such a thing should Happen ana nta party would have to take their own medicine, the medicine they have been giving the Democrat for more than a year. Th Pennsylvania Senator la so wrought up in an interview over the danger of losing the Senate that he haa inspired the Democrat with feelingaf-jartainty that the next aa will controlled by their party. The Republicans have degraded th Senate into a tyrannical obugarehy, aa ob struction and a menace to a Bepubli can. form of government. It is from the Senate that they expect to control aad administer the government if they win th eleetion. They have nominat ed one of their owa tool in the Senate for. the White House because this: oli garchy wants no cheek on its will, Chief Campaign lasae. The chief issue in the campaign 1 control of th Senate. Democrats her fully realize that with Cox 4a -th White House and a Bepublieaa Senate the government will be -just aa macs of etajemat as it haa been for th last ysar. Denfberata freely admit that if the Republicans control the Senate it would be better for the counrty they also have the presidency. With a maa like Harding in the White Houae a Democratic Senate would be greatly tempted to take advantage , of the fact. - - - H-It is fully recognized thst the co position of the next Senate will be af tremendous importance to the whole world as -well as to America. - - It - Is prcatlcally certain that .Within th next two or three year the personnel of three and possibly a majority af member of the Supreme Court win be changed. The political character of the Senate will make a great deal of difference as to. what these change shall be. Will Eater The League. It is bow certain that the country will enter the league of nations and the influence and success of the Caited State 'will depend oa faetors. many of which will be greatly influ enced by the political character .of th Senate, With the - league of na tions sharing the active membership of th country, our diplomatic and consular service all over the world will, assume a. new importance. Ia view of the record of obstruction of the Senate for the last year, and its growing power in our system of gov ernment to do good or evil, it char acter of nearly 100 men ranks every part of the government except the presidency. Mr. Taft persistently de clares thst a "Bepublieaa 8nate will never obey a referendum order of the people to ratify the league of actions with Article A. But politicians bare believe Mr. Taft ia alone ia thia opia ion. . . Demeerata Are Confident. But the moment Senator Penrose began to sound the alarm Democrats at headouarters called for the latest iXt 4R tB4 till B"-'tan1 to4 the State where hard farhts are opening. On running over the reports there waa a twinkle ia the eye of thee expert political statisticians and prognoetieators. No woader Pea- rose had founded fire for there is real fir behind at least a dosen Republi can who are aow holding seats ia th Seaate. If the Senate were now in session the Bepublieaaa eould not control it They had at the opening last ysar bare majority of two. Newberry, oa of their members, is aow aader sen tence to the penitentiary, being eon vie ted of tha .corrupt - nee - of money in his election. Hi conviction by a Jury composed of elevea Bepublieaa and on Democrat with a Bepublieaa Judg presiding has done mors perhaps than anything else' to cause Senator Penrose to doubt the next Senate will be Bepobliean. The Republicans, it ia aow asid. will let Newberry go to the penitentiary rather than loae Michigaa to thair party, but Edwia T, Sweet, a prominent Michigan' Democrat, pre dict the Republicans are going to lose Michigan if Newberry is sent te St. Peter with a recommendation "to al low him to enter heaven.. . Seme Marked Resablleaaa. Th following Bepublieaa Senator ar marked for slaughter by many of tha rank and file of their owa party: Wadaworth. of New York; Watson, of Indiana; Braadegee, of Conn.; Dill- (Ceatiaaed an Page Twe) Interstate Commerce Commis sion Allows Twelve and Half :v. Per Cent Raise ADDS 35 MILLIONS TO- ANNUAL EICPRESS INCOME Increase Does Hot Take Into Consideration Becent Wage Award of Baflwar Labor Board, and Zzpress Com pany Expected To Make Be quest Por , Another Adranoe Washington, Aug. IS. Authority to increase express rates- It 1-1 per cent waa granted the American, Ballwny Ex pros Company today by th Interstate Commerce Commission.' Th lucre by unofficial estimates will add 135,500,000 to the annual income of the company. The commission's d- cJionBwerQes sideration the recent award of the Ba'l- road Labor Board of increased wsgea ap proximating $43,000,000 to express coin pany employes, and It ia expected appli cation soon will be made by the com pany for aa additional advance. in rate to meet the wage scales. Advance Milk Rata. Bate oa milk and cream under tba commission decision are further "in creased to correspond with the dvane of 20 pef cent for the transportatioa of ueh commodities authorised by the railroad exeept where there are no com peting railroads between the aireetea points. Ia the latter case an advance of IS 1-1 per cent ia authorised. Keea Fall Amount. Ia touehinc oa the fact that the ex press company had beea allowed oaly about nn f .tna jnereaa asua, wnicn waa 25.19 iter cent, the commissioa ex- preeeea tne opinion mat ui xuu amount awarded should b retained by th ex press company itself aad that aoaa of it should be allowed to the railroad ... . ... a carriers. Th commission suggested thst the present express company contract with th railroads anaer wmen ouj per cent of it gross earnings go to the roads for tha carrier service, should be modified to accomplish this purpose, Give One Psy's Notice. Permission was granted the company to make th new rate affective upon one day notice by sung Dlaanet schedules with the eommlaaion, but ths company ia required to ze-iasue Ua tar iffs witaia 90 cays at th effective fata ia th regular maaaer. Nothln: ia its decisions, the commis sion adds. Is to be takea as forecasting the determinaUoa of the applications of the Adams, American, Southern and Welu-Fargo companies for a continu ance of their consolidation into the American Ballwny Expreea Company or oa tn proposed new contract between the consolidated company and th rail roads, which haa beea submitted to ths commission for it approval.1 BOLSHEVIK! CLOSING IN ON WARSAW RAPIDLY Bed Armies Pressing On Polish Capital Prom Three Sides With Sacoess Paris, Aug. 13. (By The Associated Free.) Closing ia upon Warsaw from th north, east and southesst, tha Bol shevik hosts are aow within 20 mile of the capital and little doubt i fait here that they will be la the slty be fore tn peace negotiations are eon- eluded. General Haller'e army, holding posl Hons along the Vistula, Narew aad Bug rivers, ia a country offering few na tural advantages for defense; I being relentlessly pushed toward the capital by the Boliheviki, who are speeding up their advance. GRIMSHAW ASST. GENERAL "MANAGER OF SEABOARD Savannah, Oa- Aug. 13. Harry B. Grim shew, of Savannah, general super intendent or the Seaboard Air Lias Railway, haa beea appointed assistant general manager ef the Seaboard sys tem, with headquarters at Norfolk, ac cording to an announcement made at the Seaboard office here tonight H. W. Purvis, of Jacksonville. Is te succeed Mr. Grimshaw aa general super intendent. G. L. Hurley, auperiatendent of the Alabama division, ia to beco'us superintendent of the South Carolina d viaion at Jacksonville: E. C. Bragwell, of Charleston, is to become superintend out of the Alabama division at Savan nah, and E. T. Gibson, assistant superin tendent at Hamlet, is to beeom super intendent at Charleston. The changes srs affective August 15. . STRIKING LONGSHOREMEN VOTE TO RETURN TO WORK Nw Tork. Aug. 13. Ooaatwis long shoremen, who have beea oa atrike hire sine March 12, voted at a mass meeting tonight to go back - to work" Monday morning providing the steamship own er get rid, of the strike-breakers the have employed. They agreed to submit their claims, including a waks increase of 18 cents an hour, to arbitration, after they return to work. SEP DOREMUS IS WESTERN ' MANAGER POR DEMOCRATS New Tork, Aug. 13 George White. chairman of the Democratic national committee, today announced appoint ment ef Beprseentative Frank Doremut of Michigan, as weatern manager of the Cox-Boosevelt campaign. . Mr. Doremns will immediately take eharg of th party' headquarters at Chicago. Forceful Sentences From Governor's ' Ratification Message to Legislature It ha avever occurred torn that woman would hurt politics, bat ' I have . boon arefoeadly disturbed stout what polities might do to I eoafeea that I am not Impress-, d with the raggoottea that tba aaseaaaseat weald be aa lavaatea af State rights. Gantlssnen, w may jest aa well realise that thia sea n try la aa long aa aaaechatioa af Stat, bat a Na tion, aad whatever a majority of the people of the nation want la going to be the supreme law of the land. Gentlemen, the front gate haa eliched. The womea are coming ap th wata." They ate going to enter i oar poll Weal household. Shall wa receive the with a smile, or a frewaf When tarn eaaaoa roar, the women I am drtvea by the tyraaay of my owa eeasclence to say that Judg ment aad j as ties, mercy aad hamaalty all cry eat that womea have the first right as speak whoa the lasa Is whether or not the world ekall haee. forth bo rals d by right or by blood and Iron. If.... we .... tarn a deaf ear to the pleadings of hamaalty, next year wa may be roused to a tragi realisation that la order to gala a local bat. tie, we have loot a world war. I am profoundly eoavlaeed that It grace for North Carolina to accept the Bickett Builds Stronghold, Then Turns to Dynamite It In hi message to the General Assent My yesterday Governor Bickett spoke aa follows! I herewith transmit to .you a eopy of the Nlatoenth Amendment to the CoiutitatioaU of th United State, duly certified to my office by th Secretary ef Btat of the United States. . front report in th publir proas It ssems that ssntlmsnt ia th Qnrai Asssmbly la decidedly against th rati fication of the Amendment. With this sentiment I am ia deepest sympathy, nd for th gentlemen who entertain it I cherish th profouadest respect. But this do not Isssen my obligation to lay before you a photographic copy of my mind on thia important sub ject. It is well known that I have never been impressed with the wisdom of, or the necessity for womsn suffrage in North Carolina. There has never bean laid before me evidence tending to (how that th majority of the women ef thia Stat desire to go to the poll. greatly fear that the women who do desire to go are unconsciously offering to barter a very precious birthright tor very oorry maa of pottage . Woman la Pelltica. It has never occurred to me thai womea would hurt politics, but I havs ta pnafundly disturbed about what polities might do to womsn. My at titudo has been that of the Western eow-boy to whom a womsn -suffragist said "We want t be made equal to the men." the cowboy lifted hia sombero bowed low and said, And why floes my lady wish to come down!" Araia I have been fearful that the entrance of woman into polities would have a very unfortunate effect on race relations in North Carolina. For thirty- five year after the Civil war all the political oaergles of our people were absorbed in ths struggle to maintain In our border a "white government. For this wo fought with our backs to the wall, because we believed such s government to b sasential to th in tegrity of th whit race, and th sur vival ef a white civilization. The re- Sit was that during thia long struggle s line of demarcation between the two political parties waa largely one of eolor. Such a aituatioa tended te dwarr the politics 1 development of-ear poo-1 pie. For twenty years we hava Dees freed from handicap, and under th new order both race hav prospered as nev er before. While there is still much room, for Improvement I believe that today ths rslations between the race ar mors symoathstie in North Carolina than In any dthsr Stat ia th American union. I neatly fear that woman suiirsga owuld -re-open these old questions, snd fore us to fight ths bsttla for white government in North Carolina over again. State Right Peed. When, I think of these things L am haunted by th line of the Scotch Bsrdi TutrOchri backward east my , Oa prospects drear; An' forward, though I earns see, I -gueea an1 fear.' -- No man in North Carolina sees more clearly the vexed problems woman suf frage is likely to bring upon us,, and uo man sympathises more deeply with the feeling that exists in ths State srsiast makina this experiment. I confess I am not impressed with the suggestion that the amendment would be an iuvasioa of State's rights. North Carolina, and for that matter all th states are estopped front making aay such contention. Recently Congress has the Northern and Western states thst lay down ths principle that enacted law supported by nearly all 1 X COT. T. W. BICKETT. faralsh the fodder. would be the part of wisdom aad of Inevitable and ratify Ihe ameadmoat. the fishermen of Puget Sound have a right to say who shall work ia the cot ton fields and factories of North Caro lina. Recently North Carolina, and nearly all the southern states, voted practically without division la favor of the amendment of the Federal Consti tution which lay down the principle tnsr th sotto growers of North Care lint hav th right to say that the farmer on the Pacific slop shall not gather grapes from his own vineyard aad out of them mske a little wine for the us of his own family on his owa table. We Are a Nation. Always In Congress if a member wants to deieat a measure be raises the cry of States rights, and the very next dy the same member who ia try ing to pass some pet measure of his own treats with quiet scorn th cry of States rights raised by th opposite. Gentlemen, w may Just as well real ise thia country is no longer aa associ ation of statss but a nation, and what ever a majority of tha peciple of th nation wsnt is going to b th supreme law of the land. Whenever I really want to think aeriously about State's rights I go and muse for an hoar over the grave of my Confedernte father, for I realise aow more keenly than ever before that States' rights psssed swsy with, The deadly calm of Stonewall s face; The iron front of Lee." But, gentlemen, in the famous words of Grover Cleveland, "a condition, and not a theory, confronts us. Woman suffrage is at hand. It is an absolute moral certainty that Inside of six months some state will open the door and the women will enter the political forura.- No grent movement ta all . history has ever gone so nesr the top and then failed to get over. The very most-that this General Assembly can do Is to delay for six months i movement it is powerless to defeat." Thia being true, I am profoundly con vinced that it would bs the part of wis dom aad of grace fos" North Carolina to aecept the inevitable and ratify the amendment.- Ths Gste Hss niched In other days when I wns a privet citixsn of Louisburg, I would some timer -be- sitting- la a eoty -con my porch, deeply engrossed in some tale of Dickens or Scott,- wWea I would hesr th front gste click, and looking up would see a lady coming up the nalk. Now, while chivalry shrinks from It. candor forces the confession that I did not want her to corns in. Jnst then I greatly preferred the society of Dickens or Bcott. nut there sn wss coming up the walk, and every instant f southern ehivslrv forced mi to wslk down the steps, give her a glsd hand, snd say, "My dear madam, walk right in, we are delighted to see you." Gentlemen, the front gate ha clicx ed." The-womea ar coming up- th walk. They ar going to enter our home. Shall w receive them with a smile or frown t Ratify Less Also. But there is another and far deeper reason for not delaying the movement we ark powerless to defeat. - The big question thst is going to be settled In ths next six months in this nation is whether of not the United States ahall enter into an alliance with twenty-nine of the most Dowerful nations on the earth for the purpossof.. forever, de- hvenng humanity from the burdens an horrors of war. 0, that question ths women have sacred rights to be heard, for when cannon rosr the women fur nish th fodder. With th utmost de ference to all who may hold a con trary opinion I am driven by the ty ranny of my own conscience to aay that (Continued an Pag Two) 1 SENATE COMMITTEE Governor Bickett Urges Ratifi cation In Remarkable i Message 1 MINORITY LEADER PUTS RESOLUTION IN HOUSE Tremendous Crowd - Throne; s Gallery and Overflows Into Home When Oorernor Pre-1 sents Memorable Arjrament' Por Snffrafe ; Senate Votes On Besolntion Tuesday i'of NffTth'' Cx Vei . Assembly tyseeT aartthe'alteTBati'va ' of ye or ao to th question of th -latifieatioa of the ameadmoat recog nising the right of womea to suffrage. Joint resolutions to ratify war present- . ed In both houses yesterday after Governor Bickett had submitted tba amendment to k Joint seas ion in a special message, delivered in person, urging ratification. In tha Senate, within a quarter of an hour after Senator Scales had offered -the resolution, the committee on eoneti tatioaai amendments to whieh H had beea referred, reported it out favorably by a vote of to 1, and it will come up for a vote by argument Tuesday morning. In the House, th resolution, Introduced by Minority Leader, H. 8. Willisms, went to the eommttte en constitutional amendments, where it still rests. . - - Nwtrathr hlstbrir enSeraSiair laa' th capitol witnessed such a scene. aa waa enacted whea the Governor entered the Hall of Representative at 11:18 yesterday morning to lay aaida his per- - -soaal convictions and urge the Legis lature, 4 the nam of humanity, to stay no longer the progress o a move ment that he declared is irrsaistiblev Every inch of the space in the -ga Ma ries was peeked with humanity. Within ' th Hall, wherever there waa spec in to which a body might be crowded, there wss a citixen. Without tha door, a throng fought for admission until tha door wcr shut and th Governor began. to apeak. ..r.. Z. Th Tallow aal Bad. " Long before the hour act for the" Bp . pearaaee of the Governor the gallarie 1 had begun to fill. Predominating were the ratifieatioaista, most af thm womea Women invaded the floor of the chanw ber, crowding against the walla aad spreading outward until they had over run the flrior, and members were forced cut of their scat to standing room in the rear of the Speaker 'a desk. Every where were the opposing ribbons, the yellow ef the suffragists, and the pal red of the rejeetionists. Shortly before the hour, Mrs. Biek . ett, dressed simply ia a whit frock and a simple black hat entered the cham ber, one of the first women in tha -throng who wore no ribbon. A cheer arose from the floor of the house, aad spread to the galleries, as shs took her seat ia a chair placed ia th aisle. A few minutes later Mrs. Palmer Jerman, chairman of tha Legislative committee of th Suffragists, and Mrs. Joeephu Daniels came down the aisle and took scats arranged for them beside Mr. rltckett. A mightier burst of cheering broke out, spreading agaia to th gall.irUi. Ovatloa far Mr. Daalels. There was' silence as the Governor entered, attended by the eommittea that had been named to eonduet him to the chamber. Members aad spectator stood while he advanced to th read ing desk. Lientensnt Governor Gard ner presented the Governor, and there was a perfunctory measure of applans and silence ngain fell upon the assem- bhr while it waited for him to begin. It was sn expectant silence, tens with- - excitement. A little flushed, but calmly un ruffled, the Governor arranged some . papers on the desk before him, and for a minute looked out over the audi- - enee. He wss dressed la th same Blue serge suit that he wore oa Tuesday when he addresaed the Legialature en revaluation, with the white vest that bs '; lie " were a bouttan' ' naire a pink roe and a few bin for- get-me-nota. r , H Telle A Story. The air waa too tease for the Gover - nor. A story was needed to leaven it a little, and' after he had presented the copy of the -Congressional resolution- . ha told th story of Washington Irv . Ing's Dutch magistrate, who after hear . ing argument in a rase, announced that "de gourt . vttl dake . der ess ... under 1 gonsideration and after three day resw der judgment in favor of der plaintiff. Pro and anti laughed with like appro elation of th Governor's application , . of the joke -to the status of the amend ment. Then he cam to hi moaaage. Th beginning amaaed th ratifies tionists.-Jubilation broke -out amen : ths antis si the first sentence that fi from th . spesker's lips. They had feared greatly aad were unprepared tf hear th-ovrnor-begin - laying thl foundation of apparently unanwrabH argument agalnat ratification, Balld Aau caatl. WHS characteristic Bickett Masoalnl h began building up, aa impregnabM bastion of rejection, piling reason el . reason, his belief that a majority of thl women of the State ar against it; thnj Hs ratification would re-open th oil racial sores, long healed ia North Car Una: that womea would be sullied bj contact with polities. ' At every a tence, tumultuous burst f applaual arose from that aeetioa of the poo (Ceatiaaed am Pago Tmrnt-i
The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
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Aug. 14, 1920, edition 1
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