Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1911-03-02
DIRECT VOTE
is DEFEATED
Popular Election of Senators
Beaten in Upper House.
PROPOSITION LOST BY q VOTES
Necessary Majority Lacking When
Ballot Taken at Washington, Res
cIution Being Favored by "a
Members, SO Opposing 1t.

Washington, March 1.-The Borah
resolution, providing for an amend
ment to the constitution for the cleo
ton of senators by popular vote was
defeated in the senate by a vote Of
"a to 80. The resolution lacked four
votes of securing the necessary two
thirds to pass it.
Responsibility for the defeat was
divided between nine Democrats, who
voted against the resolution because
they feared that federal election laws
might be invoked to carry out the pro-
visions of the resolution. and six Re-
publican lame BACKS" who voted
against their colleagues who will re-
main in the senate after March 4. All
told, the senators from thirteen states
split on the roll call, being in every
Instance except that of West Virginia,
members of the same political party.
Following is the vote on the direct
election of senator's: Yeas: Bailey,
Beveridge, Borah. Bourne, Bradley,
Briggs, Bristow, Brown, Burkett, Bur
ton, Carter, Chamberlain, Clapp, Clark
(Wyo.), Clarke (Ark), Culberson, Gull
lom, Cummins, Dixon, Dupont, Frye,
Gamble, Gore, Gronna, G~uggenheim,
Jones, LaFollette, McCumber, Martin,
Nelson, Newlands, Nixon, Overman,
Curtis, Davis, Owen, Paynter, Perkins.
Piles, Rayner, Shively, Simmons,
Smith (Md.), Smith IS. c., Stephen
son, Stone, Sutherland, Swanson, Tay-
lor, Thornton, Warner, Watson, Young.
Total, 81. Nays: Bacon, Bankhead,
Brandegee, Bulkeley, Durham, Bur
rows, Crane, DepeW, Dick, Dillingham;,
Fletcher, Flint, Foster, Gallinger, Hale,
Hepburn, Johnston, Kean, Lodge, Lor-
inner, Money, Oliver, Page, Penrose,
Percy, Richardson, Root, Scott, Smoot.
Tallaferro, Tillman, Warren, Wet.
more. Total, SO.
BY agreement the senate took up
the roll call Immediately after the
: reading of the journal. Senator Ba-
con, of Georgia, pointed out that the
agreement took the resolution from
the committee of the whole Of the SEN
ate to final passage without giving the
senate itself a chance to amend the
bill. He would have amended it by
providing that federal election laws
should apply only in cases in which
the legislature of a state had not pro-
vided sufficient safeguards.
Geographically the vote against the
resolution was cast as follows: New
England, 10; eastern Atlantic states
and West Virginia, Z; central west,
east of the Mississippi, 8; west, A.;
south, 9.
Senator Borah, who was in charge
of the resolution, was gratiied over
the result, although he lacked four
votes of getting the requisite two
thirds.
while" he said, II would like much
to have had four more votes, yet I am
gratifed with the results. When 1t is
demonstrated that the senate stands
within four of two-thirds it is certain
that the real fight is over. The reso-
luton will be introduced again at the
next session of congress, regular or
extraordinary, and urged unremitting-
ly. The friends of the measure may
rest assured that the issue will not
be permitted to be forgotten. The
next congress, in my Judgment, will
pass f%avorably on the resolution"