The House of Commons on Wednesday resolved, by 274 votes
to 25, on the motion of Mr. Samuel, that a Bill should be passed forthreith to legalize the election of women as Members of Perlis- meat. The overwhelming majority showed that the House regarded it as a foregone conclusion. As Mr. Asquith put it, the House, having swallowed the camel, could not strain at the gnat. The controversy over Women's Suffrage has been decided once for all. Now that eight million women are on the Register, it would be illogical and impossible to deny them the right of electing women Members. Experience has shaven in America, Australia, and elsewhere that women voters are slow to return representatives of their own sex, so that the ohange will come very gradually. The House decided at the same time to admit women to the Strangers' Gallery. The triumph of woman over the old Parliamentary conventions is thus complete.
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