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Show GOVERNOR GLOSES DOOR TO SUFFRAGE " VERMONT EXECUTIVE DECLINES TO CALL SPECIAL SESSION OF STATE LEGISLATURE. Declares That Present Members of Legislature Were Elected Before the Question of Ratification Had Arisen. Finland, VI. tiovernur lVrriviil W. Clement oil July 1- issued a proclamation proclama-tion rol'ltsin;,' III ("ill III!' leyislal lire in special session Id make possible ratifi-rniioii ratifi-rniioii ill' Hie I' -ill -i-a L aiiiiiilinrnl fur woman su I'fra ure. In Hiving his reason I'm' refusing ii'ain to rail a special session, Governor Gover-nor ( 'leiijonl sn id I In: proposed amendment amend-ment clearly invades tin' constitution ill' Vermont; IhaL the present legislature legisla-ture was elected before the question ol' ratifying the IViloral amendment hail arisi'ii, ami that Ihe people (iC the slain have had no opportunity to express ex-press themselves on Hie issue. The governor proposed Unit the mutter be taken up by the next: legislature, and urged (hat candidates for the election be required to declare themselves oil It. Governor Clemenl's proclamation asserted as-serted "that, as it stands and interpreted inter-preted by the supreme court today, the federal conslitulion threatens the foundation of free popular government." govern-ment." The sixteenth amendment lo the conslitulion, con-slitulion, lie said, had been lobbied through congress and stale legislatures oy federal agents, and the eighteenth amendment had been forced through by "powerful and irresponsible organizations or-ganizations operating through paid agents with unlimited funds." "It is now proposed to force through the nineteenth amendment for woman suffrage in Hie same manner and also without the sanction of the free men. "I have been asked to overlook these considerations as a matter of party expediency, but this is a matter of principle, not expediency, and the party that invades a well-established principle of popular government will ' suffer in the end." |