WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
HOUSE OF COMMONS DEBATE
By TolcEt-aph-Presß Association-ConyrisU London, July 11. Mr. A. J. Balfour, Leader (if J ho Opposilion, in speaking in tho House of (.'ominous during the Fmichi.-e Bill doljato, said the Prime '.Minister occupied au absurd position. "Wliilo his colleagues defended (ho measure on (he ground that it gave everyone an equal vighi, the Prime Minister was of opinion Unit to grant women the vote would be a nnlionai disaster. If the House accepted women's suffrage, the Premier would be bound to use the Parliamentary machinery to effect what ho considered a. disaster. The Prime Minister (11 r. Asquith) repudiated the charge that the Bill was introduced to catch votes. He exposed a. policy which tho Liberals had advocated for thirty years. He 'did not think tho House would stultify itself in reversing its previously-expressed judgment on ( women's suffrage.. .Sir Edward Grey, lord Robert Cecil, and several Liberals, have tabled amendments for tho "admittance of women to tho franchise. •
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1493, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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163WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1493, 16 July 1912, Page 5
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