WOMEN'S RIGHTS. DEPUTATION TO MR. ASQUITH.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 27, 1 February 1908, Page 5

WOMEN'S RIGHTS.

DEPUTATION TO MR. ASQUITH.

MINISTERS DIFFER. MANDATE FROM ELECTORS WANTED. By Telegraph. — Vresa AMOcution. — Copyright. LONDON, 31st January. Mr. Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, informed a deputation of . the National Union of Women and Suffrage Societies, headed by Mrs. Henry Fuwcett and Lady Francis Balfour, that the quc&tion of women's suffrage was not prominently before the electorate at the last elections. The Government, he added, were unable to sacrifice any urgent measures that had been entrusted to them for the purpose of initiating such great change. It 3 initiation ir this Parliament would be unjustified, even if the Cabinet was unanimous on the question, which it was not. STREET DEMONSTRATIONS. ARREST AND IMPRISONMENT. LONDON, 30th January. Suffragettes made a noisy demonstration before 9 a.m. to-day outside the houses of Cabinet Ministers, including Messrs. Haldane, Sinclair, Harcourt, Burns, and Birrell, and Sir Edward Grey. The suffragettes expressed extreme disgust that women's suffrage was not mentioned in the King's Speech. Seven arrests were made, and four were sentenced to six woeks' imprisonment. SUFFRAGISTS FINED. (Received February 1, 8.23 a.m.) 1 LONDON, 31st January. Four feinalo suffragists have each been fined forty shillings, with a month's imprisonment in default, for making a dcmonstiation on Mr. A&quith's doorstep.