A STRONG SET-BACK.
GIVEN BY THE MILITANTS. LONDON, May 6. In his speech on the second reading of the bill prepared by the Solicitor-Gen-eral (Sir J. A. Simon) and a Liberal committee, in tbe House of Commons yesterday, Mr W. H. Dickinson said that it would be a gross injustice to withhold the vote from women owing to the criminal acts of a few.
The debate was apathetic in tone. Many of the speakers emphasised the fact that the ' policy of militancy had given the franchise movement a strong setback.
Mr Arnold Ward (Unionist) moved the rejection of the bill. Fourteen suffragist members .of the House of Commons circularised their colleagues, urging them to support the second reading of Mr Dickinson's bill, but to vote against the third reading unless an amendment is carried to bring the measure into line with the original Conciliation Bill.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 108, 7 May 1913, Page 5
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