Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1912 — MICHIGAN WOMEN TO VOTE [ARTICLE]

MICHIGAN WOMEN TO VOTE

Equal Suffrage Measure Is Passed by State Legislature. Lansing, Mich., Mar,ch 29.—The woman suffrage amendment,, which provides that an amendment to the ccnstitution granting women the right to vote be submitted to the people at the next general election, passed the house. It had already passed the senate. Wild excitement prevailed in the house when the measure came up for a vote. Women packed the galleries, and when the passage of the measure by a vote of 75 to 19 was announced they broke into enthusiastic cheering. It: was some time before order cOuld he restored.