The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-06-13
POPULAR ELECTION
MEASURE PASSES
THE SENATE
National Supervision Amend
ment Adopted by Tie Vote
VERMONT SENATORS VOTE NO
Page and Dillingham; Among the "a In
Opposition to the Amended
Resolution

Washington, June 13.-The Senate
last night by vote of Ga to "A adopt
ed the resolution amending the con
sttution to provide for election OF
senators by direct popular vote. The
Bristow amendment. giving to the fed
eral government supervision of such
elections, was adopted, Al TO Al, the
vice president casting the deciding
ballot.
Senator Reed of Mo, protested
against the vice president casting his
deciding vote. An amendment by
Senator Bacon, qualifying the Bris-
tow amendment to prohibit federal
supervision of elections unless state
Legislature refuses or fails to act,
was defeated, 46 to 43. The resolu-
ton as amended was then finally
adopted, GA to "a.
Adoption of the Bristow amend
ment, which omitted the House pro-
vision transferring supervision Of
senatorial elections from Congress to
the state Legislature, was made pos
sible by Mr.. Clarke of Ark. He cast
the only democratic vote for the pro
posal The tie on that ballot would
have been prevented il his vote had
been cast with his party, with whom
he later voted on adoption of the
resolution. On this first ballot five re-
publicans, Messrs Borah OF Idaho,
Gronna of N. d., La Toilette of Wis.
Poindexter of Wash. and Works Of
Cal, all insurgents, voted against the
resolution. On the resolution as
amended the vote, Ga TO "a, was six
more than the necessary two-thirds
majority. OF the "a negative votes,
eight were cast by democrats and 16
by republicans, as follows
Republicans-Bra of Ct,
Burnham of N. H., Crane of Mass,
Dillingham; of VT, Gallinger of n. H.,
Hepburn of Idaho, Lippitt of X. L.,
Lodge of Mass, Lorimer of ILL.,, Oliver
of Pa, Page of VT. Penrose of Pa,
Richardson of Del, Root of N "
Smoot of Utah and Wetmore of K. L.,
Democrats-Bacon Of Ga, Bank
head OF Ala, Fletcher of Fla, Foster
of La, Johnston of Ala, Percy Of
Miss, Terrell of Ga, and Williams Of
Miss.
The resolution as amended and
passed follows:
That in lieu of the first paragraph
of section of article of the consti-
tuition of the United States, and in
lieu of so much of paragraph two of
the same section as relates to the
filling of vacancies, the following be
proposed as an amendment to the
constitution, which shall be valid to
all intents and purposes as part OF
the constitution when ratified by the
Legislature or three-fourths of the
states:
The Senate of the United States
shall be composed of two senators
from each state, elected by espeople
thereof, for six years; and each sena-
tor shall have one vote. The electors
in each state shall have the qualifca-
tions requisite for electors of the
most numerous branch of the state
Legislatures.
when vacancies happen in the rep
resentation of any state in the Senate
the executive authority of such state
shall issue wTits OF election to fill
such vacancies: Provided, that the
Legislature of any state may empow
er the executive thereof to make tenn
porary appointments until the people
fiji the vacancies by election as the
Legislature may direct. This amend
ment shall not oe so construed as to
affect the election or term of any
senator chosen before it becomes
valid as part of the constitution.
The amended resolution now goes
| into conference between the Senate
and House and some senators predict
that the House will refuse to accept
it,