Show f CLOSES DOOR TO SUFFRAGE 1 p V VERMONT EXECUTIVE DECLINES TO TO CALL SPECIAL SESSION c OF OF STATE LEGISLATURE rY g 0 f t tj v J r i ml i Declares pe ares That Present Present Pree t Members of Jo t 5 Legislature 1 Were ere Elected Before ff J the h Question of Ratification fi- fi C 4 Had Arisen i rr r Governor n. emor t Governor W. W J. J CI i ht nt l July tUly 11 I issued a 11 proclamation Hon tion h Cousin g to to call the he the legislature in in al sf se session lon to mate poi pO possible raUn- raUn rr o of the federal for tor w suffrage In giving gl his liis reason for refusing again to oil ciUl a special session Cover Gover- nor npr Clemen said sald the proposed amend amend- JI anent nt clE clearly url Invades s 's tl the e constitution of It V Vermont that the lre present ent legislature legisla legisla- xi i ture tare elected before the question or 01 ratifying the federal amendment had t an and that tint the people of the thet t tate Mate t have had no opportunity to ex ex- express express press themselves es on the issue The governor Jo proposed that the matter be I I liken up up b bv by the next eit legislature and u urged g d that candidates f for r the election L be required to declare themselves es on f H if it l' l Governor Cl Clements Clement ments ment's proclamation asserted as as- 4 that as it stands and inter inter- f.- f. i. i li eted by the supreme court today the federal constitution t on threatens the them m foundation of free popular government govern govern- n men ment The sixteenth amendment to the constitution constitution con con- he be said had been lobbied through congress and state legislatures by hy federal agents and the thc eighteenth amendment had been forced through by lIy powerful and Irresponsible organizations or or- organizations operating through paid pattI J agents with unlimited funds It Is now proposed to force through I tho the nineteenth amendment for foi woman suffrage In the same manner and also without the sanction of the free menI men I e have been ask asked d to overlook these F considerations as us a n matter of party expediency but this is a matter of y principle not expediency and the time timer r Party that Invades images a well well established established r principle of popular government will suffer Rulfer in the end L. |