The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-01-16
Final Roll Call Was "a to 4,
With Two Not
Voting
1 ! , STRUGGLE
$ ,EFORE THE ACTION
latter Was Then Put Be-
fore the House for a
Vote

After hard struggle the Vermont
Senate early this afternoon adopted
resolution ratifying the federal prohibi-
tion amendment by a vote of "a to 4,
putting the matter up to the House for
final action.
The matter came up in the Senate aft
er recess, at ll:H o'clock, when the re-
port of the committee on federal rea-
tions, which had acted on the ratifying
resolution, was presented. Senator Villas
Of Chittenden county moved that the
rules be suspended and that the Senate
proceed TO act on the resolution at once
Senator Bates of Washington county also
favored immediate action,
Senator Kingsley Of Rutland county
opposed suspension of the rules; and on
the roll call it was voted to suspend the
rules, the vote being % to 5. Senator
Maurice of Lamoille explained his vote
against suspension of the rules, stating
that it was not because he was opposed
to the main question but because he
thought it unnecessary to go outside Of
the ordinary course of procedure.
The committees favorable report on
bht iIbOthItbH was JIEll pItStHLtu ana
the resolution was read the second time.
On the question of third reading Sen
ator Kingsley raised a point of order
whether the resolution was properly be-
fore the Senate, the governors message
having been presented to the House, and
the Belknap resolution, for ratification,
being still pending in the Senate
Lieut.. Gov. Mason S. Stone, after con-
ferring on the matter, ruled that the
point was not well taken, whereupon
Senator Kingsley moved that the resolu-
tion be laid on the table. Senator Carr
asked if it was necessary. for 4 mes
sage from the governor TO be presented
to the Senate before action was taken
Senator Moulton of Chittenden county
said he believed that it WAS not neces-
sary. The matter was before the states
when Congress took action.
The Roll Call.
On the roll call to see whether the
resolution would be laid on the table the
vote was 4 in favor and "a against, after
which the resolution was adopted by the
Senate by the same vote, "a to 4.
Senators voting against the adoption
of the resolution were Hall of Grand Isle,
Kingsley of Rutland Root of Bennington
and Tenney of Windham; 4.
Those voting for ratification were La
Fleur Of Addison, Noonan of Addison,
Payne Of Bennington Carr Of Caledonia,
Stuart of Caledonia, jackson of Chitten-
den, Moulton of Chittenden, Tracy of
Chittenden, Villas of Chittenden, Schoff
of Franklin, Steele of Franklin, Maurice
of Lamoille, Adams of Orange, Hamblet
of Orleans, Lewis of Orleans, Morgan of
Rutland, Hendee of Rutland, Bates of
Washington, Hill of Washington, How
land of Washington, Daniels Of Wind
ham, Ballou of Windsor, Belknap of
Windsor and Billings Of Windsor; "a.
Those absent or not voting were:
Amey of Essex and Taylor of Rutland; p
A communication was presented before
the House early this forenoon by Gov
ernor Clement, calling the attention of
the Legislature to the proposal for ratif
cation, the communication including a
letter from Secretary of State Lansing
and copy of the joint resolution adopt.
ed by Congress.
1t had been expected that Governor
Clement, a strong opponent Of prohibit
tion, would send some sort of message
with the proposal and that there would
be more or less discussions but nothing
of the sort took place in the House and,
indeed, the presentation was made with
out any unusual occurrences,
Immediately following the reading of
the governors communication, a joint
resolution was introduced by Mr.. Bel
llnap of Rockingham, relating to the pro-
posed amendment, and proposing that it
be referred to Joint committee, consist
ing of the standing committees on federal
relations of both the Senate and the
House, to consider and report to their re-
spective houses such action thereon as
they should judge proper. The resolu-
tion was so referred.
1t had been expected, too, that bill
providing for a referendum on the fed
eral amendment would be introduced;
but no bill of that nature was presented
Nor were any bills presented in the
House during the forenoon. The House
was in session less than 40 minutes this
forenoon, during which time the report
of the committee on rules was presented
and ordered to lie and be printed.
A communication was presented from
Secretary of State Black, announcing the
appointment of Miss Virda f. Spear Of
Newport as engrossing clerk.
Following the regular devotional eXer-
cises in the Senate this morning, the re-
port of the committee on joint rules was
received. On motion of Senator Maurice,
the reading was dispensed with and the
rules adopted.
Senate bills 6, 7 and were introduced
as follows: S. 6, introduced by Senator
Viles of Chittenden, an act relating to
county courts, referred to committee on
judiciary; S T. introduced by Senator
Moulton of Chitteuden an act to amend
section 74O3 of the general laws, relat-
ing to salaries Of county clerks, incrcas-
ing the salary of the county clerk of
Chitende county from S2l00 to $2500;
referred to committee on state and court
expenses; S 8, introduced by Senator
Villas of Chittenden, an act to give wom-
en- the right to vote for presidential
electors, referred to committee on suf
frage and elections
Legislative Notes.
Seerntarips of some of the new Holsn