WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 135, 2 March 1908, Page 7

WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE.

A PRIVATE MEMBER'S BILL. SECOND READING CARRIED. HOW MINISTERS VOTED. DT TELEGRAM—PIIESS ASSOCIATION—COFYRIGIIT. (Roc. March 1, '4.32 p.m.) London, February 29. In the House of Commons Mr. 11. Y. Sanger's Bill providing for tho enfranchisement of women, which is identical with tho Bill . introduced by Mr. W. 11. Dickinson somo time ago, was read' a second timo by 271 to 92. . Mr. Gladstone said, without committing tho. Government, he, personally, supported tho measure. . The majority included Sir Edward Grey, Mr. Morloy, Mr. Haldane, Mr. John Bums, Mr. Lloyd-George, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Buxton, Mr. It. It. Cherry, and Mr. Wv Itunciman. Tho minority included Mr. Asquith, Sir W. S. Robson, Mr. S. T. Evans, Mr. Lewis Harcourt, and Mr. John .Sinclair. ■ Tha Bill was remitted to a Committoo of the' whole House. This is considered equivalent to sholving it. The suffragists have resolved to continue to agitato, and-to urgo that a Government Bill bo brought to ensure its, passage.. "Tho Times," commenting on tho Bill, says when the peoplo talk about women's successful exorcise of tho franchiso in somo Australasian and American States and in Finland, thoy soem to forget that tho problems of Government there approximate far more to municipal questions than thoso. Britain deals with. The suffragist leaders havo not yet demonstrated that any considerable number of women agreo.with them. SpeakinK in the House of- Commons on Mr. Dickinson's Bill in .March,' 1507, Sir H. Cam'p-bell-Bannerma.il stated that the Government would leave the House to pass; judgment on the Bill, uninfluenced by Ministerial pressure, but, declaring his own personal view, lie camo forward as a warm supporter of the inclusion of women. ,Of the provisions of the particular Bill before the. House ho was not greatly enamoured, for it' Would enfranchise a small minority of .well-to-do' women and would not affect to- anything like tho necessary extent the working women of tho country;. He, however, . should vote for the measure as a declaration' that the exclusion o? women from tho franchiso was not expedient, justifiable, or' politically right. :