Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1919 — WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE BILL FAILS BY SINGLE VOTE [ARTICLE]

WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE BILL FAILS BY SINGLE VOTE

By a margin of a single vote, equal suffrage met its fourth defeat Monday in the senate. No further action at this session is now possible, but advocates announced that the now nearly half a century old campaign for submission of the Susan B. Anthony constitutional amendment of the states would be renewed when the Sixty-sixth congress convened. On the final roll call fifty-five members —one less than the reuired number— voted for the adoption of the resolution, and twenty-nine senators cast their ballots against it. Defeat of the measure was witnessed by crowds of women in the galleries, but there were no demonstrations or dramatic incidents which marked previous votes on the question.