CHAOTIC POSITION
WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN ENGLAND FEARS OF SPLIT IN LIBERAL PARTY PASSAGE OF FRANCHISE BILL ENDANGERED. fly Telegttph.— Pte*s AftttcifcttoH,— Copyright. (Received January 23, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd January. Many Liberals fear that the movement towards women's franchise will create a permanent party split. In any ease Sir Edward Grey's amendment endatlgel-8 the passage of the Bill by forcing the Liberals to fight the next election without the abolition of the plurality vote. The position is somewhat chaotic. If Mr. Dickinson's amendment is defeated many of the Liberals and Labourites will oppose Mr. Lyttleton's as tending to endow the unionists with a new form of plurality . [Sir Fjdward Grey's amendment in to omit the word "male" from the Bill. Mr. W. H. Diokiiison's amendment gives the vote to women over twenty-five who are occupiers or the wives of TJccupiere, thus enfranchising six million people. Mr. Lyt-telton proposes to add a provision to enable wotnen to vote at tuamcipal elections. This means enfranchising a million women,]
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19130123.2.58
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1913, Page 7
Word Count
166CHAOTIC POSITION Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1913, Page 7
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in