The age-herald., 1900-04-14
WANT US. SENATORS
 ELECTED BY PEOPLE House Passes a Resolution by
 Vote 240 to 15.
 MIR. TALBERT GOT EXCITED Forney Imputes Untruthfulness to Some of His Statements, When Talbert
 Became Greatly Angeted q,
 Called to Order
MIR. TALBERT GOT EXCITED

Washington, April 13.-The house today, by vote of 240 to 15, adopted a resolution for constitutional amendment providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. Fourteen re- publcans and on democrat voted against it. By the terms of the resolution the amendment to be submitter to the legisa-
 ture is as follows:
 "The senate of the United States shall
 be composed of two senator's from each state, who shall be elected by a direct
 vote of the people thereof for term Of six years, and each senator shall have one vote. A plurality of the votes cast for candidates for senator shall be sufficient
 to elect. The electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for cleo tors of the most numerous branch of the state legislatures respectively When a vacancy happens by death,
 resignation or otherwise, in the represent
 tation of any state in the senate, the same
 shall be filled for the unexpired term thereof in the same manner is provided
 for the election of senators in paragraph one;
 Provided that the executive thereof may make temporary appointment until the next general or special election, in accord ance with the statutes or constitution of such state"
 The remainder of the day was devoted to the consideration of private pension
 bills During the course of the debate
 there were several sharp attacks upon MT.
 Talbert, democrat of South Carolina, for
 his course in delaying action on bills. Hot Controversy
 Later on Mr. Talbert who was demand
 ing the reading of the report in each case, and who several times made points of no
 quorum, became involved in controversy
 with MT. Shattuc of Ohio, who expressed
 the opinion that opposition to pensions came with ill grace from a former confed- crate soldier.
 MT. Sibley of Pennsylvania said a simple calculation would show that it cost S36000 a day for a session of the house, or S0O) an hour. The time frittered away by MT. Talbert since he came to congress, he said, would more than pay all the special pen sion bills passed during that period. MT. Norton of Ohio protested against MT
 Talbert's course. If he found an unjust bill, and could demonstrate that it un-
 just, he Norton) and many members on the floor would join him in defeating it He appealed to MT. Talbert to abandon his opposition.
 MT. Lamb of Virginia joined in the ap- peal, and his remarks drew a scathing de- nuncation from Mir Talbert. He said the trouble was that the gentleman from Vir gnia had claims before the house he de- sired to get through. The same was true of other gentlemen. It was log-rollng combine. They dared not fight these un-
 just pension bills as he was doing. When he went into the confederate army, he said, he had staked everything and lost it. They were not passing the hat around now. MT. Forney of Michigan attacked MT. Talbert a little later. He said that when MT. Talbert said that he was a friend of
 the soldier he would not believe him on oath.
 Hurled It Back TaIhert 1.ith a srreat shnyu of rath