The Huttig news., 1908-05-16

ELECTION OF U. S. SENATOR'S.
By Popular Vote and Other Good Amendme nts
to the Constitution.

Following are the suggested
needed amendments to the Consti-
tuition of the United States by Gov.
| :. N. Haskell, representing the
commonwealth of Oklahoma, which
the legislatures of all other states
are to be requested to approve and
if ever put in that document will
remedy some of the present day
! evils:
Resolved, by the senate and
house of representatives of the
United States of America in con-
gress assembled. two-thirds OF
both houses concurring. That the
following articles be proposed to
the legislatures of the several
states as amendments to the con-
stitution of the United States all or
any of which articles, when ratified
by three-fourths of the senate
legislatures, to be valid to all intents
and proposes as part of the said
constitution. viz:
Article 16. The senate of the
United States shall be composed
of two senators from each state
chosen by the electors thereof for
six years. and each senator shall
have one vote: and the electors in
each state shall have the qualifica-
tons requisite for electors ofmem-
bers of the house of representatives.
They shall be divided as equally as
may be into three classes, so that
one third may be chosen every
second year; and if vacancies hap
pen, by resignation or otherwise
the governor may make temporar,
appointments until the next regu.
lar election isi-such state. Nc
person shall be a senator who will
not have attained the age of &c
years, and been nine years citizen
of the United States, and who shall
when elected, be an elector of
the state for which he shall be
chosen. The vice-president of the
| United States shall be president
of the senate, but shall have no
vote unless they be equally divided.
The senate shall chose their own
officers, also a president pro tenn
pore, in the absence of the vice
president or when he shall exercise
the office of the president of the
United States.
Article IL. The congress shall
have powe. to provide for the col
lection of uniform tax upon the
gains, profits and income received
by every citizen or person of the
United States including every cor
poration, association or company
doing business for profit in the
United States, subject to such ex-
emptions as it may deem proper.
Article 18. The congress shall
have power to define and regulate
the liability Of common carriers en-
gagged in interstate or foreign COM
merce to their servants or employ
es for injuries resulting from the
negligence of fellow servants or
co-employes.
Article 10. No state shall be
denied the right to regulate the
charges of common carriers for
the carriage of freight or passen-
gers wholly within the state. or to
regulate or prohibit the consolida-
ton or combine of completing car
riers.
Aftiole 20. No state shall be
denied the right TO regulate or pro-
hibit the shipment into the state of
any article or articles of commarce
injurious to public health or morals.
or TIE product in whole or in part
of convict labor.
Whether the amendments are
proposed in this form or not. and
whether all of them are submitted,
the necessity and the justice of the
recommendations are scarcely de-
batable