New Britain herald., 1919-04-28
SUFFRAGE BILL IS COMING UP SHORTLY
Ii House Disagrees With Senate
 Action It Will Go Back

The presidential Suflra51 "'il, which was rejected by the sta'e sen ate last Wednesday, by close vote ol 19-16, will be voted upon py lo"er house either April 30 or May l. IL the house vote disagre Wlth tHe senate action. the bill will De fV turned to the senate for recohsiu@ia~ tiOn.
 The suffra gists. nothing daunlet' pS the rejection of the bill by one ho"se' are now spending every effert to get d favorable action from the house. A statement from suffrage head- quarters oints out that t1isis the ohlS real suffrage bill for which men who want to vote for suffrage may no" vote since Judge Simon F. Balo"ih has given the opinion that the sttlte constitutional amendment. ID us present form would abrogate 'tii educational requirements TOT ootA men and women voters Judge baio wins opinion follows:
 Any constitutional provision IS subject to repeal by an amehdllehI of the constitution.
 Amendment VIII of the coIaStltu- ton of Connecticut Gas amended oS amendments NI and NAlN) pfoVld9S that any male citizen of the Chlteo States. age 21 or moro years, who eau read English, has lived i'll the 9tate a year and in the town SIX mohths, and has a good moral character, "shall", on taking the eleclon oath' be an elector.
 The pending amendment proposed by the house of representatives III 1917 strikes out the requirement. or sex. If now adopted it would control the other am endments to the consn- tuition, so far inconsistent with them. The latest act of legislation or of amendment of a constitution inn p1iedIy repeals all laws or amend ments, which are not consistent with it. Amendment VIII, as it now stands. names certain requirements on com pliance with whichfsany. citizen shall be made an e1ector This, in my opin- ion, would strike out any require ment Of reading, or of reading Eng fish. --...
 Nor could any amendment of the proposed amendment be made by this assembly. IL must be either ap- proved as it stands or not at a1l.''
 In view of this opinion, the Connec- ticut Woman Suffrage association de-
 
 conscientious4y uphold a bill which might rem owe +thesa educational test for both men and women voters, and therefore is entirely unwilling to sup port this amendment.
 Miss Katherine Iudington. presi- dent of the Connecticut Woman Suf- frage association, said in regard to the status of the state referendum bill:
 While the association realizes that the opinion from so renowned an authority as Judge Baldwin pre- cludes any possibility of the passage of the bill by men 5who have the in terests of Connecticut at heart the association does not feel as disap- pointed as it would have a few years ago when a state amendment seemed the only means of obtaining full suf- frage. Now that the federal suffrage amendment is so near we feel that if the legislature will insure us the right to vote for president in 1920. we shall be willing to wait 8 little. longer for full enfrancl1isement since we could not possibly desire to see an amend ment which removes educational qualifications from all voters put be- fore the present voters as a " fair
 
 suffrage. We believe that honest 1 minded men would feel in duty bound to reject this amendment. not be- cause it enfranchises women, but be- cause it enfranchises illiterates" { Hmm ediately following the vote in the state senate last Wednesday,, the sutfraglsts who were present in the galleries, held an enthuiastic meet ing at state headquarters in Hartford. One of the first things they did was to raise $1,000 in addition to the regular state pledge to carry on suf- frage work. Mrs. A. F. s. Taylor of Norfolk contributed the first S10o and in five minutes the sum of s1O0O was pledged.
 Rising votes of thanks were taken for the senators who had voted for the presidential bill special mention being made of the work done by Sem ators Clyne of New Haven. Dillon of Shelton, and Hemenway of Hartford. The senators who voted in favor were:
 E. W. Broder, C.. C Hem enway, Hartford, A. F. Powers, Manchester A. H. House, Windsor. W. $. Wood- ruff Orange, D. M. Clyne New Haven. 1 R. T. French. Seymour Wn1. (. Fox. 1 New London, F. A. Bartlett. q. E. Clark. Bridgeport, J, E. Dillon, Shel- ton, C. F. Williamson, Darien. c. E. Hough, Washington, F. W. Hazcn, Haddam. w. H. Heald. Stafford Springs.
 Those voting against were: Sena- tors H. F. koppleman, Hartford, R.
 II. Deming, West Hartford. c. w. klett, New Britain. G. H. Bishop, II. A. Leonard. D. J. Bailey, New Haven. \. W. Madison. F.. P. Golden, Meri den, C. 4. Tenlpleton, John Hurley. Waterbury, E. Waterman Lebanon, A. l.. Delaney, Bridgeport, H. F. Bis sell. Ridgef1eld. J. R. Mead, Green Wich, A Macdonald. Putnam, s. l..