The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-15
'HOlCOIQb Refuses To Certify On
 Suffrage Vote
Will Await Action By Special Session Next Week--Suffrage Lead CT Now in Washington With Vote-Al1 Laws Outside of Election Laws May Be Multi fled.
Especial to The Times. >

Hartford, Sept 15-while Miss Catherine M. Flanagan of Hartford is in Washington today bearing a copy of the ratification resolution passed by the Connecticut legislature yes- terday which she will present to Sec retary Colby, Governor Holcomb has decided that he will pay no attention to the action taken by the LegiSla- tture yesterday, and will not officially notify Secretary Colby that Connect eeut has ratified until the special ses- Bsion called by him for next Tuesday takes action.
 The situation in so far as the emergency sessicre of the Legisla- ture is concerned is as follows: The Legislature met yesterday, adopted a resolution ratifying woman suffrage by a vote of 216 toll, passed a $685. 900 appropriation to replace a wo- mans dornitory at the Storr's Agri- cultural college, received bill for the appointment of Deputy Boards of Registration in the wards and voting districts received bills and other res olutions and then adjourned until next Tuesday at 10 o'clock. s,t4. At 10 o'clock next Tuesday morn ing the legislative session of Septem- Der 4 will act upon the matters pre- sented yesterday, and having cleaned up the business of the session of Sep tember 4 will then adjourn without date to meet again at noon on the same day in the special session called for the purpose of ratifying woman 1 suffrage.
 i Just what action Governor Hol- 1 comb will take upon matters acted l upon outside of election laws if such | other matters are adopted next Tues | day, is a problem. He holds that the | session of Sept. has no legal right | to act upon any matter except that l which was specified in the proclama-
 tion assembling the legislators. That 1 proclamation limited the work of the l legislature to the passage of laws to ! aid the making of voters l Attorney General Healy. however, | differs from the governor, and claims 1 that the legislature has the right l when assembled to act upon whatever matters it cares to act upon, and there l probably will be a conflict next week 1 because if the legislature acts on mat | ters outside of the proclamation and
 then adjourns with date befor re- | ceiving word of the action of the
 governor, the governors veto of such
 action will be final and conclusive l and the bills will not be passed.
 Several of these measures outside l yesterday. They included a resolution l for referendum on the $100 bonus | for state soldiers, a resolution provid- l ing that ministers, teachers and stu
 aents temporarily residing in the State shall be eligible to a vote in all city, state and national elections in
 this state and several resolutions deal- ing with changes in the election laws. While difference of opinion ex- isted last night as to the legality of yesterdays ratification, there was ab-
 solute1y no doubt that the ratifica- ton question would be definitely settled next Tuesday by recon sideration and readoption. Connecti-
 cut will be the thirty seventh state
 to ratify, one more than necessary to make the amendment a part of the Constitution, but the action of this
 state is considered important on ac-
 count of the doubt that has arisen labout the ratification in Tennessee.
 It was for that reason that the gov
 ernor desired the Connecticut Legis-
 lature to leave no legal loopholes
 that might throw the national e1ec- i ton in to the courts.
 Notwithstanding the fact that the ! governor brought out this view in his
 message to the joint convention of the Senate and the House of Representa- 1 tives, based on the ground that yes (Continued on Page Seven.)