FRANCHISE BILL

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 20, 24 January 1913, Page 7

FRANCHISE BILL

LIKELIHOOD OF BEING WITH* . DRAWN SUFFRAGETTE DELEGATES IN LONDON TO/- BE 'ALLOWED TO-DO ! "LOBBYING. 1 * By telegraph.— Prese AsfeQbktion.— Copyright, {Received January 24, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 23fd January. It is understood that if Sir Edward Grey's amendment to the Franchise Bill is defeated the Government will withdraw the measure and proceed- with Mr. Baker^ Bill to abolish plural voting. Three hundred working Wottten, delegates of suffragettes, have arrived in London. The Speaker has authorised that fifty of their number may assemble in the Grand Committee -Room for the purpose of lobbying. A deputation from the City Liberal Association waited on Mr. J. A. Pease, President of the Board of Education, • asking that the city should be exempted from the Franchise Bill. THREAT PROM SUFFRAGETTES PAST MILITANCY BUT A PIN* PRICK. GOVERNMENT WILL OAfi-RY BILL THBOtTGH. WHATEVER AMENDMENT 18 MA&E (Received January 24, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON) 23rd January. Working women delegates, representing school teachers, nurses, laundresses, and others, Waited as a deputation on Mr. L%d George, and threatened thab the past militancy would be but a pin-prick compared to that in the future. They disbelieved the Premier's pledge that the Government would Carry the Bill. Mr. Lloyd George replied that he was authorised to state if any women's amendment Wits incorporated in the measure the Governffient would carry it through. Sii' Edward Grey states that he and Mr. Lloycl George preferred Mr. Dickinson's amendment, but if it Was defeated they would vote for other amendments. PROPOSAL TO LfiEt DISCUSSION. MR, BONAR~LAW OPPOSES. ■aril (Received January 24, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, &M January. The Premier (Mr. Asquith) htovea lh the House that the Franchise Bill be discussed to time-table. Mr., Bonar Law said the Bill would revolutionise the whole of the electoral system without the country having the smallest say. He moved an bmenament declining to accept a limitation of discUSßioh.