Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Manj Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happening* In the Nearby Cities and Town*—Matter* of Minor Mention From Many Localitie*. 2 SAYS RATIFICATION IS CERTAIN Suffrage Leader Think* Tennessee Will Act Favorably. Nashville, Tenn., July 26. —Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage association, announced here last night that sufficient pledges had been obtained by her organization and other suffrage leagues to insure ratification of the federal suffrage amendment by the special session of the .Tennessee legislature, which Governor Roberts has announced he Will call for Aug. 9. Coincident with Mrs. Catt’s announcement, Foster V. Brown, former attorney-general of Porto Rico and an advocate of woman suffrage, issued a statement contending that ratification of the amendment by members of the legislature elected at the last election would be contrary .to the Tennessee constitution. Department of justice officials at Washington recently gave an opinion to the contrary.