Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-22
TIE VOICE OF TIE PEOPLE, Says the House by More Than
 Two-thirds Vote,
TO BE HEARD IN SELECTING
United States SenatorS-SeC- ond Success of the Bill
 In the House.

WASHINGTON, July 21.-Immediateiy af- ter the reading of the journal today Mir. Bowers, republican, of California, de- manded the regular order, thus cutting of the transaction of any miscellaneous bus mess. The speaker announced the regular order 10 be vote on the Tucker joint reso- lution, providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the peo- pie. As this was proposition involving change of the constitution, the affirmative votes oftwo- thirds of the members were necessary to it's passage. The yeas and nays were demanded and the result was: Yeas 137, nays 49. Two-thirds having voted in the affirmative, the joint resolu- tion was declared to have been passed, ac. companied by applause. It was the second time the house has thus declered itself on the question. The joint resolution reads as follows:
 Resolved, etc., That in lieu of the first paragraph of section 8, article of the con- stitution of the United States, and in lieu of so much of paragraph of the same section as relates to the filling of vacancies, and in lieu of all of paragraph l of section 1 of said article l in so far as the same re- lstes to any authority in congress to make or alter regulations as to the times and man. ner Of holding elections for senators, the following blll is proposed as an amend ment to the constitution, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part Of the constitution when ratified by the legis- latures of three- fourths of the states:
 .'The senate of the United States all be composed of two senators from each state, elected by the people thereof at large for f six years, and each senator shall have one { vote. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state leg islatures.
 i"The times, places and manner of hold ing elections for senators shall be as pre- seribed in each state by the legislature thereof.
 "When vacancies happen in the repre- sentation of any state in the senate the ex- ecutive authority of such state shall issue 2 writs of election to fill such vacancies, pro- vided that the legislature of any state may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legisla- ture may direct.
 ..sThis amendment shall not be so con- strned as to affect the election or term of aBy senator chosen before it becomes valid al part of the constitution. ''
 Oa motion of Mir. Holman non concur renee was voted in the senate amendments tothe Indian appropriation bill and con- ference was agreed to. MT. Allen and MT. Wilson, republican, of Washington, were named as managers ou the part of the house.
 By unanimous consent the consideration of business in the morning hour was dis pensed with aud the Bynum bill, providing for the re- employment, ss fast as vacancies occur, of those railway postal clerks who were dismissed from the service between March b and May l, 1889, when the service was placed under the civil service law, was then taken up in accordance with the terms of a special order agreed upon yes terday, The bill did not come to a vote, and at 3:30 the house adjourned until Mon-