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1. Do you favor an amendment to the Constitution repealing the present amendment?
While not pretending to decide either question, it may be permitted to comment upon them. As regards prohibition, one may with some confidence expect the college vote to favor "more vigorous enforcement of the Prohibition Amendment" rather than modification or repeal. For contrary to newspaper editorials and periodic sudden squalls...
When Senator Borah heard of the President's action he ejaculated: "I am delighted that the President of the United States has discovered the First Amendment of the Constitution."
M. Roulleaux-Dugage, Deputy, sponsored an amendment to include a "family vote by representation," which means that the father of a family should have as many votes in addition to his own as he has children. This amendment was referred to committee by a vote of 440 to 135.
A report on the bill, which is self-explanatory, prepared by M. Joseph Barthelemy on behalf of the Universal Suffrage Commission, calls attention to the vote of 344 to 97 in favor of woman suffrage passed by the Chamber in 1919, but defeated later by the Senate: "The most important...