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Show COAL QUESTION DELAYS SPA CONFAB V V V V V V V V v v v v O Vermont Governor Blocks Suffrage I EXECUTIVE m HE iN'T CULL I HIS LEGISLATURE 'Governor Clement Declares Re cent Amendments Threaten Popular Government. MATTER OF PRINCIPLE STATEMENT DECLARES Freemen Must Have Time to , Sanction or Oppose Measure, i Official Avers. Rl"n,ANI, Vt.. July 12 Goernorj Perclval W Clement today Issued al , proclamation refusing to call the lee-: lee-: islaturo in special session to make po-j po-j sible ratification of the federal amend-1 I inent for woman suffrage. The governor's proclamation fol-( lows a conference which he held at Washington recently with Senator Harding, at which it is understood the Republican nominee for president discussed dis-cussed with him the possibility of having hav-ing ratification completed by the Republican Re-publican legislature in Vermont. GIVE8 11 IS REASON'S In giving his reasons for refusing to again call a special session. Gov-; ernor Clement said the proposoj amendment clearly inyaAliWi-JliQ cgn; Ktltutlon of Vermont; that thi present legislature was elected before ttv question of ratifying the federal amendment had arisen, and that the, people of the state have had no op-J porlunlty to express themselves on th" Issue. The governor proposed that the matter be taken up by the next legislature anu uib'u io.ii v.uniiuur? for election be required to declare thomselves on it. THICK 1TENS LIBERTIEe) Governor Clement's proclamation asserted that 'as it stands and Is Interpreted In-terpreted by the supreme court today the federal constitution threatens the foundation of free popular government."' govern-ment."' The seventeenth amendment to the constitution, he said had been "lobbied "lob-bied through congress and state legislature.-, by federal agents and tho eighteen amendment had been forced through by powerful and Irresponsible organizations, operating through paid agents." "It is now proposed to force through the nineteenth amendment for woman suffrage In the same manner also without the sanction of freemen "I liave bet n asked to overlook these considerations as a matter of party eqpediency, but this is a mailer mai-ler of principle, not expediency, and the party that revokes a well-established principle of popular government will suffer in the end." FIGHT TO CONTINUE WASHINGTON July 12. The National Na-tional Woman's party announced today to-day that Governor Clement's refusal to call the Vermont state assembly in special session for suffrage ratification ratifica-tion would not be accepted as final and that an even larger delegation than had been planned would call on Senator Harding, the Republican presidential nomine, at Marlon, on July 21!. "to Impress him with the! necessity of carrying out the suffrage plank and pledges of his party and enfranchising en-franchising the women of the nation In time for the coming election! " MRS CATT NETTLED NEW YORK, July 12. When Informed In-formed of Governor Clement's refusal, to call a special session of the Vermont I legislature to pas.s on the federal woman wom-an suffrage amendment, Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National Na-tional American Suffrage association, I today Issued the folowilng statement: "If It Is correctly quoted, the dccl8- Ion of Governor Clement Is so eon-1 trary to the dictates of Justice, common com-mon sense and political expediency thai It convinces me that there is a sinister and far-reaching influence behind be-hind It. To uncover that Influence Is on" o fthe immediate tasks of the suf-1 fragists. "The work of ratification will be I pushed strongly forward in Tennessee Tennes-see and North Carolina." |