BRITISH POLITICS.
CABLE NEWS.
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A VOTE FOR EVERY MAN AND WOMAN.
BILL READ A SECOND TIME IN THE COMMONS.
Received March 21, 4.35 p.m. LONDON, March 21
In tho House of Commons, the Hon. Geoffrey Howard's Bill giving a vote to every man and woman of full age was read a second time by 157 votes to 122.
Mr Asquith was not unsympathetic towards the measure. He stated that the Government was not of one mind on the question of female suffrage, though they favoured the extension of the franchise, but as such changes should come from a responsible Government he would not vote for the second reading of Mr Howard's Bill.
Suffragists, both militant and nonmilitant, repudiated the Bill on the ground that it would add fifteen million people to the voting list, and bo prove revolutionary. It would also postpone the granting of the equality of sexes indefinitely. An anti-Suffrage petition, signed by 243,552 women, has been presented to the House of Commons.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3143, 22 March 1909, Page 5
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171BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3143, 22 March 1909, Page 5
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