Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1919 — EXTRA SESSION WILL BE CALLED [ARTICLE]

EXTRA SESSION WILL BE CALLED

INDIANA EXECUTIVE HAS DECIDED TCTHAVE ASSEMBLY CONVENE. Governor Goodrich announced, on Tuesday evening that he would issue "a call for a special session of the general assembly for either the last week of' August or the first week of September primarily for the purpose of ratifying the woman suffrage amendment to the federal constitution. The governor announced his decision immediately after the receipt of a telegram from Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the National American Woman Suffrage association, assuring Indiana that the amendment to the constitution of the United States would be ratified before the next presidential election, provided ajl the states that have agreed to call special sessions of the legislatures did so. As a result of the effort to learn the disposition of other states relative to a special session, Governor Goodrich announced that he received replies from thirty-five governors and that twenty-five of them agreed to call special sessions if necessary to ratify the amendment. In announcing the Indiana special session the governor said that the session would be limited, to consideration of the suffrage amendment and “to three or four other emergency matters.” He said that he did not care to discuss the nature of the other matters that he regardedas absolutely necessary to come before the session. He declared, however, that the length of the session would be limited to one week. The telegram from Mrs. Catt, received by the governor last evening, said: “Ratification before the next presidential election assured, provided those states agreeing to special sessions will call them. Fifteen states have ratified or will ratify very soon. Legislatures are be _ ing polled on petitions to governors in thirteen states and three certain legislatures meet in January, 1920, in regular session.' Remaining five states necessary to complete the thirty-six are New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, New Mexico, and West Virginia. Special cohditions in each will be changed when their ratification becomes necessary to final victory. I am sending a full report by letter. Many thanks for your earnest co-operation.” The governor said that he had already communicated with a number of the members of the house of representatives and the senate and that they had recommended a special session. Before making the decision last evening the governor conferred with E. M. Wasmuth, Indiana state chairman of the republican organization. The governor said that he would send letters to all the members of the legislature to obtain from them, assurances, that matters coming before the special session would be limited to the suffrage resolution and to the three or four other emergency matters he has in .It is understood that included in she emergency group will be an amendment to the county unit highway law and additional appropriations for state institutions. ♦