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Show U IS URGED it spcisr Mrs. Abby Scott Baker Works for Special Legislative Legis-lative Sessions. If the governors who are to bein their conference here tomorrow overlook consideration of the question of calling special sessions of their legislatures for 1 lie purpose of ra t i f y i n g th e s u f I"ra g e amendment to tlie constitution, it "will not be the fault of -Mrs. Abby Scott I link or, political chairman of the Na-j Na-j tional Women's party. Airs. Baker arrived ar-rived in Salt Lake yesterday afternoon, and before the dinner hour had conferred con-ferred "with several governors already here. Mrs. Tinker said yesterday stie hopes to persuade every governor at the conference con-ference immediately to call a special session upon his return home. She plans to ask again for the cooperation of the voting women of the west to help the suffrage movement just this one time more. Making u plea that the legislatures of many states must act at special calks I if the women are to have the amendment amend-ment ratified in time to permit them j to take part in the next presidential ! election, Mrs. Baker last night said: ! "There is no reason "which" womn will accept "why they should bo kept waiting for political liberty. The "work entailed in assembling legislative bodies in special session to act upon the amendment amend-ment is nothing in comparison to the importance of the issue involved, and certainly the extra expense argument put forward will not be accepted by women who have been taxed without representation since the country was colonized. ' ' Mrs. Baker will be here throughout the conference of governors, and will present her plans to the individual executives, and, if possible, to the meeting meet-ing as a whole. |