Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1920 — SUFFRAGE NOTICE SENT TO COLBY [ARTICLE]

SUFFRAGE NOTICE SENT TO COLBY

TENNESSEE SUPREME COURT ORDER OPENS WAY FOR CERTIFICATION. Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 24.— Frank M. Thompson, attorney general of Tennessee, announced today that Governor A. H. Roberts, at 10:20 o’clock this morning, certified Tennessee’s ratification of the suffrage amendment, sending the certification to Secretary of State Colby by mail. Similar certifications were sent to President Wilson, Vice-President Marshall and the Speaker of the house. Miss Charl Williams, leader of the Tennessee women, who has been working in behalf of suffrage, sent a telegram to Secretary of State Colby, notifying him that the certification had been put in the mail, he said. The announcement was made after Chief Justice Lansden, of the state supreme Court, on petition of the attorney-general, had granted a writ of and supersedeas, virtually ' taking proceedings in the injunction case brought to prevent certification out of the hands of Judge Lansden of the county chancery court. Justice Lansden ordered all records in the case before the state supreme court for review. Argued at Justice’s Home. Attorney-General Thompson said ths action of Justice Lansden vacated the injunction granted by the lower court, and it was on this express opinion that the Governor certified ratification to Washington. Argument by the attqrney-gener-al on his motion that the supreme court take jurisdiction was made before Justice Lansden last night at the justice’s home. Opponents of ratification said the proceedings violated the rules of the supreme court in that the other party was not notified that the hearing was to be held. House Without Quorum. House leaders said today that it would be impossible to transact business as long as a quorum is lacking in the house. Thirty-seven members who opposed ratification are at Decatur, Ala. Rumors that an agreement had been reached between suffrage leaders and the “bolters” at Decatur, ■under which the latter would return to Nashville and proceed with legislation, under a pledge that suffrage would not be referred to by either faction, were denied in all quarters. Seth Walker, Speaker of the house and the opposition leader said he had no authority to speak for the members at Decatur, but he was certain they would not agree to such a plan.