Republican farmer., 1920-04-09

tor and proceed to act of any IGeneral may"
 Constitution under which Connecticut lives, rbuon of powers provided "a government of three
 nct departments and each of them confided separate magsracy w those which legislative one which executive to another and those judicial Ito another"
 All legislative powers confded to the General As semby and these the power assemble the power to meet and do business is the important power
 The to meet is important been regard ed in America as inherent in a legislative body
 The makers of the Constitution leave so important
 matter to the mere general statement that legislative CTS must be the function of the legislative branch
 Article Third creates the Legislative Department In Sec
 of Article Third 1t is declared that there stated session of the General Assembly other sessions T SUCH OTHER TIMES AS THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SHALL JUDGE NECESSARY"
 The time session has been several times changed by amendment The place of has chang ed that the sessions must with an execution o he notpd De held Hartford to annual sessions and then sessions The power of the General Assembly other times as It shall judge necessary has not been changed.
 This essential power in which is retained author y of the egsave branch and the spirit of the Orders the first Constitution Connecticut as sure and tain today, as it was in 1918.
 In addition the given to the Assembly to meet at its pleasure also in the uon to the person administering the office of convene the Assembly special emergencies" Also the DOW CT convene the Assembly at other than places Tn case of contagious disease, other circumstance
 This to the governor purely permissive was not limitation the at will It broadening of the purpose of the neona tb their legislature should meet whenever should be occ slon an occasion known to hem known to the
 
 But the power of the governor was He must not except in special emergency when there might be agous disease other circumstance which sary some special place of meeting.
 It not the purpose that an emergency does exist and that Governor Hocomb fully ing the prerogave which the constitution statute gives % but rather to show that his refusal in estops General Assembly from exercising its penary power to mee "as it shall judge necessary"
 The power to meet having been shown to belong the nature of deberatve body having poVe which the people carefully cherished constitution and maintained in their second constitution but remains f. enquire by what means in the present emergency the bower may be most wisely and certainly exercised
 With deliberate and purposeuI intelligence creators of the constitution provided for such situaton of Article Third.
 "A majority of constitute quorum to dc and compel the attendance such manner and under such penalties each House may
 That Is to say, of the House beino duly assembled may require the attendance of the others compel it by whatever, such penalties for disobedience seem best The power ample
 How then to call the General Assembly into being
 It would be enough that members of either House. should after some of them have reasonable others meet Tn the respective ouses at the Capitol there duly ganze, and proceed if majority is attendance the bus in hand and if majority not in require the attendance of the majority in such such penalties each house may prescriben
 In taking such the Assembly merely ex ercsng it's constitutional prerogaive which since majority of the assembly pettioned special session to he called by the governor would be method of pre- venting otherwise become precedent and fdn daton for future encroachmen by the executive islative power.
 Before the nation is the most important amendment ever proposed to the Federal Constitution submitted to the eral states
 When the Fourteenth Fifteenth amendments to the Federal Constitution adopted the ana the practical effect of these amendments negro the vote.
 The Nineteenth Amendment which gives the vote o 1von, en- enfranchlses half the nation most important islation of hundred years.
 Every political party avors the amendment ana aVors special session of the General raty it. ' sion.
 majority of the Assembly have demanded sne cial session.
 The movement of so vast reform be prevented by the whimsical pervere bmor of an old