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Scotland Neck, Halifax County, North Carolina
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The U.S. House Judiciary Committee postponed a report on the women's suffrage constitutional amendment until the next Congress session by a 9-7 vote, supported by suffragists who deemed the timing inopportune. It rejected a similar postponement for the prohibition amendment on a tie vote, prompting suffragists to seek reconsideration.
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Washington.—With the support of suffrage sympathizers who thought the time inopportune for a vote in the house on the pending suffrage constitutional amendment, a motion to postpone a report on the measure until the next session of congress was adopted 9 to 7 by the Judiciary committee. At the same time the committee rejected on a tie vote a similar motion to postpone until next session a report on the prohibition amendment. Suffragists immediately launched a fight for reconsideration of action.
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motion to postpone suffrage report adopted 9 to 7; motion to postpone prohibition report rejected on tie vote; suffragists launch fight for reconsideration.
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With support from suffrage sympathizers believing the time inopportune for a House vote on the suffrage constitutional amendment, the Judiciary committee adopted a motion to postpone the report until the next session of Congress by a vote of 9 to 7. Simultaneously, the committee rejected on a tie vote a similar motion for the prohibition amendment.