The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, February 1, 1917, Page 8

S e sssmsnany. Rollcall in North Dakota House and Senate Given—Ceremonies Over Signing of the Measure Governor Frazier is seated at the table signing the bill. To his right standing next to the table are Mrs. Elizabeth Preston Anderson, pre.sident qf the state W. C. T. U.,, Mrs. Grace Clendenning of Fargo, president of the state Votes for Women League, Mrs. Mary Darrow Weible, of Fargo, vice-presi- dent of the state Votes for Women League and Mrs, Elizabeth Darrow O'Neil, of Fargo, president of the state Congressional Union. Standing to the left of Governor Frazier next to the table are Mrs. Lynn Frazier, wife of the governor, Miss Bonita Townley and Mrs. A. C. Townley, wife and daughter of the president of the Nonpartisan League, and Mrs. J. E. Stevens, field agent of the Anti-Tuberculosis society. By Ralph L. Harmon, staff correspon- dent of the Leader ISMARCK, Jan. 26.—On January B 23, 10 days after the senate pass- . ed senate bills 12 and 13 intro- duced by Senator Lindstrom, granting women the right to vote, Lieutenant Governor Kraabel and Speaker Wood signed the engrossed copies, Governor Frazier put his signature to the docu- ments, and they were filed with the secretary of state. The ceremony in both houses was allowed to intrude upon other business. The women who were interested in the measures had planned for the event several days in advance, and everything had been in readiness on Monday, but owing to storms which delayed a number of trains, detaining some senators,” the senate did not transact any but routine matters, and the suffrage bills were held up one day. Yellow quill pens, in suffrage colors, were provided for all the signatures, and these were afterward presented to some of the prominent suffrage work- ers, the one used by Lieutenant Gover- nor Kraabel being given to Mrs. Eliza- beth Preston Anderson, president of the W. C. T. U, of North Dakota, and the one used by Speaker Wood to Mrs. Grace Clendenning, president of the Votes for Women League of North Da- kota. In the senate, on motion of Senator Rowe, Governor Kraabel ap- pointed Senators Rowe and Lind- strom to escort Mrs. Anderson to the president’s desk and receive the pen. She replied with a brief speech, thank- ing the senate and expressing the hope that the women would deserve the franchise and never dishonor the legis- lature that had granted it. In the house a similar procedure was follow- ed, Mr. Hendrickson of Burke county making the motion that the pen used by Speaker Wood be presented to Mrs. Clendenning. Mr. Hendrickson and Representative Hagan. and Bowman were named by the speaker to escort her to the chair, and she likewise thanked the body. GRANTS LIMITED SUFFRAGE AT ONCE Applause from the galleries, which, however, were not crowded, greeted the conculsion of both ceremonies, and members of both houses participated. Down in the executive offices, Gov- ernor Frazier used the third pen in affixing his signature of approval and presented it to Mrs. Mary Darrow Weible of Fargo, vice president of the Votes for Women League. The offices were filled with a distinguished com- pany, including several state officials and prominent women suffragists of the state. : The bills thus signed do not grant complete and immediate suffrage. Senate Bill 12 grants a limited fran- chise, permitting women to vote for presidential electors, county surveyors, county constables, all officers of cities, villages and towns (except police - magistrates and city justices of -the peace) and for township officers. Senate Bill 13 is the constitutional amendment which, with the approval of the 1917 legislature, will be sub- mitted to the legislature of 1919, and if then approved, will be submitted fo popular vote in 1920. If adopted at that time it will grant women the same franchise rights as men, eliminating in the constitution the word *“male” before the word ‘person.” ROLLCALL OF SENATE GIVEN IN DETAIL In the senate the rollcall on senate bill 12, for limited suffrage, got 37 ayes, 11 nays, and one senator was ab- sent. The rollcall was as follows: For the bill: Allen Lindstrom Benson McCarten Cahill McGray Carey Martin Drown Morkrid Ellingson Mortenson Englund Mostad Ettestad Murphy Gibbens Nelson, Richland Gronvold Pendray Hamerly Ployhar Hamilton Putnam Heckle Rowe Hemmingsen Sandstrom Hunt Sikes Hyland Stenmo King Welford Kirkeide Wenstrom Levang Against the bill: Beck Ketschmar Haggart McBride Jacobsen McLean Nelson, G. Forks Young Porter Zieman Thoreson Zieman was the only League mem- ber who voted against the bill. Senator Paulson of Hillsboro was absent. ROLLCALL IN HOUSE - IS FOUR TO ONE In the house this measure carried by 88 to 19, six not voting, and nearly all League members voting for it. The rollcall was as follows:. Those voting in the affirmative were: Allen Hagan Arnold Haines Bailey Hanson Bowman Harding Brown Harris Bryans . Havens Byrne Hendrickson Carignan Hoare Carr Keitzman Christenson Kelly Church Kimball Cole Knox Dettler Kurtz Divet Laird Dupuis Lang Eckert Larson, Ransom Erb Larson, Stutsman Everson Lathrop Ferguson Lazier Fraser Liederbach Frederickson Lowe BIG BIZ PUTS ON THE SCREWS The opposition to the farmers cause at Bismarek is prepar- ing to flood the senate with telegrams against House Bill 44, which has passed the house and is now up to the senate. The big pack- ing interests, the railroads, the grain combine and others who command the services of a certain class of bankers and merchants have put on the screws, and the senators will get hundreds of let- ters opposing House Bill 44, which, if passed by the senate, will enable the carrying out of the League program. A large sum of money has been spent to print thousands of pamphlets denouncing as ‘‘socialistic’’ the constitution the League senators and representatives want to submit to the people. These are being sent to bankers and merchants and it is hoped will aid in inereasing the telegrams, letters and petitions against the farmers’ cause. The opposition is desperate. It is feared now that not as many senators as at first thought will vote against House Bill 44. They are beginning to see the people want this bill. The opposition hopes to bolster up wavering senators to fight the farmers. Therefore the farmers must act and act at once. Petitions and letters from the farmers urging the passage of Bill 44 are piling up at Bismarek. But there should be more if the senate is to realize once and for all that it must not trifle with the people’s will. If you favor carrying out the League program as soon as it can be done—not two years or four years later or maybe never —fill out and mail the petition on page 18 of this issue of the Leader. Sign it and send it yourself, as directed, if you have no time to get friends and neighbors to sign. But get as many names as possible. This is a crisis for the farmers of North Dakota. No thing that will help the cause should be neglected. Each one of you can help. Show the senate that the talegrams and letters coming in from bankers and merchants who oppose the farmers’ cause is not the sentiment of the people. Turn to page 18 and cut out the petition. EIGHT McDonnell Prater McManus Quam Maddock, Benson Reishus Maddock, Mo’'ntr’l Renauld -Magnuson Riba Marshall Rice Martin Sandbeck Maxwell Schick Miller Sinclair Moen, Adams Smith Myhre Stair Nims Stinger Noltimier Strom O’Connor, G. ForksTenneson O’Connor, PembinaVarnum Oksendahl ‘Wadeson Olson, Bowman Walton Olson, Burke Ward Olson, Eddy Weld, Kidder Patterson ‘Weld, Wells Peterson, Towner Whipple Petterson, Sargent Wilson Pleasance Mr. Speaker Those voting in the negative weres Blanchard Moen, Traiil Geiger Nathan Geiszler - Olson, Cavalier Isaak Rott Koller Schrag Kunkel Storstad Larson, Cass Turner Mackoff ‘Weber Mees Wiley Meyer Absent and not voting: Ebel Lageson Gunhus Martz Hoghaug Wright SLIGHT CHANGES ON OTHER BILL The senate rollcall on Senate Bill 13 for constitutional suffrage was the same as on the other, except, that Senator Porter who voted against Senate Bill 12, voted for Senate Bill 13. In the house ‘there were a few changes. Those who voted to give women the limited suffrage in Senate Bill 12, and voted against constitutione al suffrage in Bill 13, were: . Kelly, Lang, Schick and Stinger, Those who voted to give women constitutional suffrage according Yo Senate Bill 18, but ‘against limited suffrage in Senate Bill 12, were: Larson of Cass and Storstad. — A GOOD APPOINTMENT (Editorial in the Valley City (N. D)) Courier). Rev. C. E. Vermilya of this city is one of the appointees of Governor Fra- zier for the board of regents for a, four- year term. The Courier certainly most heartily approves of Governor Frazier's selection from our home city. We know of no man who is better equipped or better qualified from every stand- point than is Mr, Vermilya. What- ever the outcome of this fight may be the governor has made a most accept- able appointment on this important board and if the deal goes through as the League has started in to do, the institutions of the state will be in safe keeping so far asg My. Vermilya is concerned. The other gentlemen ap- pointed by the governor are new men In public life to us and all we can do is to hope for the best. We do not feel that any very dire results will follow anyway. ow the Suffrage Bill Passed