IMPERIAL POLITICS
A RADICAL REPRESENTATION BILL.
ANTI-FEMALE SUFFRAGE PETITION.
United Press Association—Copyright. (Received March 21, 4.30 p.m.)
LONDON, March 20
In the House of Commons, a Bill, introduced by the Hon. Geoffrey floward, M.P. for Cumberland North, giving a vote to every man and woman of full age, was read a second time by 157 to 122. ' v . . '
Mr. Asquith was not unsympathetic, and stated that the Government were not of one mind on the question of lemale suffrage, though they favored an extension of the franchise, but as such changes should come from the responsible Government, lie would not vote for the second reading.
The suffragists, both militant and unmilitant, repudiated the Bill on. the ground that it would add 15 million persons to the voting list and so prove ■revolutionary, also that it would indefinitely postpone granting equality to the sexes. ‘ •
An anti-suffrage petition, signed by 243,552 women, has been presented to the House of Commons.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2456, 22 March 1909, Page 5
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158IMPERIAL POLITICS Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2456, 22 March 1909, Page 5
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