RAICKED AGAIN.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1671, 11 February 1913, Page 2

RAICKED AGAIN.

It is rather interesting to read in "The Queen" of , list month an account of ja , women's suffrage demonstration thjit was held in London on tho 4th of tho month, .What has just recently happened was , feared then. The chairman was Mr. Arthur Hender. son, M.P., secretary of tho Labour partv, and tho most important statement mado throughout the proceedings was contained in his reply to an inquiry whether, in view of the defeat of tho Conciliation Bui during the present session, tho women's suffrage amendment might be Tilled out of order by the Speaker, Tho decision, said Mr. Honderson. will not rost with the Speaker, but with the chairman of committees, who, ho. might say, had alreadv intimated lis acceptance of the amendment. This reply will serve to (allay anxiety caused by various recent reports in the press. , • The chairman recalled to the meotino ( the explicit pledge, which Mr. Asquith had Riven that, if women's suffrage wero included in tho Bill, tho Government would regard it as nn integral part of tho measure, which they would defend in all its fltaara. If suffragists availed themselves of the splendid opportunity .which now lay before, tlieni, tho amendment would bo carried. Sir John Simon, K.U, M.l\ (Solicitor-General), in moving the principal resolution, explained that the Bill, to which he had giien his name, was expressly so drafted as to make a women s suffrage amendment in ordor.