WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1315, 19 December 1911, Page 5

WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

MINISTERIAL SUPPORT. j * - ■ li 7 Tclesraph-l'rcßS Association-OoDyrleiil j London, December 17. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of Stale' for Foreign Affairs, in addressing ttic Women's Liberal Federation, said that so I long as women were deprived of their vote representation of tho people would be hopelessly incomplete, Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer,' declared that the Liberal party had repudiated the referendum on other questions, therefore in Liberal statesman with decency could apply it to women's suffrage. MR, LLOYD-GEORGE ATTACKED. ■ London, December 17. While Mr. Lloyd-George was leaving ■io Women's Meeting a. man throw a brassbound dispatch-box at the motor-car window. Tho Chancellor's faco was injured, and he narrowly escaped losing au cyo. * His assailant was arrested. (lice. December 18, 10.5 p.m.) London, December 18. Mr. Lloyil-Georgo's assailant was a«-o-ciated with the militant Suffragists. He declares (hat he merely intended to break the window. AN OBSTACLE TO HOME RULE. (Rcc. December IS, 10.5 p.m.) London, December 18. Mr. William O'Briea, M.P., in a speech at Cork, declared that tho Manhood" Suffrage Bill would Ik> a serious obstacle to Home Rule. The extension of the franchise meant a reference to the country, when the Liberals would be smashed, owl ing to the unpopularity of tho Insurance Bill. THE SUFFRAGETTES INDIGNANT. ( Mr. Asquith on November 1 announced' to a deputation of members of Parliament, who presented a widelv-signed momorial in favour of adult suffrage, that it is the Government's intention to introduce into Parliament next session a measure providing for one man one vote. I Ins, the Prime Minister si id, will be on very simple lines, and will , be drafted in such a form that if tho House of Commons so decides it may bo extended to confer the franohise upon women. Commenting oil this, the Parliament correspondent of "Tho Times" said.— ihe general opinion at. the Hotisp of Commons seems to bo that tho Prime Ministers announcement to a deputation yesterday that a Manhood Suffrage Bill will be brought in next year has blown the Conciliation Bill into the air, as ono indignant woman suffragist put it. Uthough the possibility of moving an amendment in the interests of woman sum-ago is to ba preserved, few believe that Uμ House of Commons would aoeoph at present an amendment which would iifetitutc womanhood as well as manhood suffrage-aii tiriemlmenl, that is to snv, which by a. Mroko of the pen would make the majority of the electors m the country women. There are Libernls who temporise with the subject, and affect to believe that woman sutfraqists might content themselves with all amendment to the Manhood Suffraee Bill which should give the franchise to women over a ccrt«in age, <~„! (] lus koep the feminine electors in (.he minority, but they scarcely expect the woman suffragists In takn this view. It is understood that the first result of the Ministerial wonmincemcnt was to bring Miss Christabel Pankhurst yesterday to tho House of Commons, where sho conferred with svmltathetic members. The militant section nst no time last mglit in sending round the fiery cross, mid will resume militant tactics asainst (he Government wilh ardour. J hey regard the Prime Minister , * pronouncement as a belraval of their cause.