The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-03-18
1S SENATORS FAVORED
AND NINE OPPOSED
The House To-day Acted Fa-
vOrably on the Barge Ter
minaI Bill, Sending 1t to a
Third Reading After Mr..
Hopkins of Burlington
Had Supported 1t.

Following hall hours debate, the
Vermont Senate to-day passed over Gov.
ernor Clements veto by an exact two.
thirds majority Senate bill No s, giving
women the right to vote for presidential
electors. The vote was IS in favor of
passage and nine opposed with three
senators absent or not voting. The com
mittee on judiciary, to whom the bill
had been referred after coming from the
executive chamber, reported the bill fa-
vorably notwithstanding the objections
raised by Governor Clement.
The House this morning advanced to
third reading the House bill No 2O7,
providing for a barge terminal, the bill
having been ably supported on the floor
of the House by Mr.. Hopkins of Burling-
ton. .......
The senators voting for passage over
the governors veto were: Amey, Bal
lou, Bates, Billings, Daniels, Hamblet,
Hill, Howland, jackson, Kingsley Nor
gan, Payne, Root, Steele, Stuart, Tenney,
Tracy and Villas
The senators voting against the pas
sage of the measure were: Adams, Bel
knap, Carr, Hall, Hendee, LaFleur, Mes
killup, Taylor and Varnum.
Those absent and not voting were:
Senators Lewis, Noonan and Schoff.
During the debate on the measure,
passage of the bill was opposed by Sen
ators LaFleur and Carr Senators Amey
4 -.
and elections and judiciary, respectively,
explained why the committees had con-
sidered the bill constitutional. Senator
LaFleur did not believe it advisable to
pass the measure with the question of
its constitutionality raised. Senator
Carr urged the Senate to sustain the
veto of the governor. ...=..
Senators Kingsley and Villas summed
up the argument for the passage of the
measure. Among other things, Senator
Villas said that the constitution does
not provide for the choosing of electors
through the popular vote, but provides
that the people shall act through their
representatives in the legislature on this
question. Each legislature is, therefore,
a law unto itself,
The United States constitution defines
the situation, said Senator Villas, and
the constitution of Vermont is oyerTuled
by that. but Senator Villas maintained
that he found nothing in the constitu-
tion of Vermont which would make this
measure unconstitutional
The governors veto message was
cIouded with obscurity,' declared Sen
ator Villas. "The lawyer who wrote that
message land | am confident that
lawyer did write it, had made mp his
mind that he would not give anything
to women in Vermont that he were not
obliged to give
Senator Villas read several decisions
which were quoted to substantiate his
position. There were number OF wom-
en- in the Senate chamber when the vote
was taken.
While the Senate was passing ,.
over the governors veto, the House was
listening to Mr.. Hopkins OF Burlington
on the barge terminal measure, II, 201,
which came up as special order at
| 1880 o'clock this morning and took up
the remainder of the morning. Mr., Hop
kins went into practically every conceiv-
able detail of the barge terminal prop
osition, occupying the floor nearly an
! hour.
During the course Of his talk, he made
Che statement that this barge terminal
would handle between five and six mil
lion tons of produce going and coming
over the waterway every year, which
would bring in an income OF not less
than $4,000 a year, and the cost OF
operation of the terminal would not eX
ceed 100000 and it is estimated that it
could be run for $4,000 yearly.
In closing Mr. Hopkins said:
This barge terminal offers the only
possible alienation Of the difficulties Of
our geographical situation
Steps toward final adjournment were
taken in both the Senate and House this
morning. In the Senate, j. r. S. p, b.
Senator Stuart, and providing for the
appointment of Il special Joint commit
tee consisting of two senators and three
representatives to investigate and deter
mine the earliest practicable date for
final adjournment, was adopted,
Mr.. Dunham of Brattleboro introduced
in the House a motion to amend rule 80
so that the introduction of all bills, cx-
ccpt those from the committee on ap-
preparations, should be prohibited after
next Saturday, except by unanimous
consent Mr.. Austin of Highgate op.
posed the motion. Mr.. Cudworth Of Lon.
donderry also opposed it, but said that
he favored the idea expressed and would
favor the motion if it were not to be in
corporated as a part OF the rules Of the
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