Today -100: April 8, 1925: Of tariffs and women’s suffrage

Coolidge seems to be content – I started to write happy, but it’s hard to picture Silent Cal as happy; oo, complacent, that’s better – about the existing rate of tariffs and rejects increasing them still further.

The French Chamber of Deputies votes 389 to 140 to give women the right to vote in municipal and cantonal elections, and to hold office. Now it’s up to the Senate, which has always killed women’s suffrage bills in the past, and will kill this one.

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