BRITISH FRANCHISE BILL.
SECOND READING CARRIED. (Press Association. —Copyright.) • Y : . .LONDON,. July 13... In the House of Cqn^onti. • fcljeL Era-ii? chise Bill w'as read the second time by a majority, of 72. i . . ... . AMENDMENTS TO THE RlfcL. VOTES FOR WOJiiEN. (Rec. July 15, 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, July 14. Mr -Balfour, in. the franchise debate; said that the .Premier occupied ,an absurd position. While his colleagues defended the Treasure on the ground that.it gave everyone equal rijghts, the Premier was of opinion that to grant , women the vote wo'uld be a national disaster. , .If . the House accepted. women's, suffrage, the Premier .was bound to use the parliamentary machinery, to. effect what heconsidered ' would be a disaster. Ms Asquith repudiated ~the charge that the Bill was introduced' to. catch votes, and declared that the. Bill , expressed the policy which the Liberals had advocated for thirty years. He had never' thought . that. the House would Stultify itself by. revorsing the previous-ly-expressed judgment in regard to> women's suffrage. Sir, Edward: Grey, Lord Robert Cecil, and Several Liberals tabled amendments admitting women to the vote:.-
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, 15 July 1912, Page 5
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