Bisbee daily review., 1911-04-25
ELECTION
 OF SENATOR'S SHOWS GREATER STRENGTH


 the direct election of senators by the people it seems now to be as- ared that the present session will rush it to a favorable conclusion.
 At least that is the prediction made by senators who have been urging this reform in the federal constitution. They say that they have strength enough in the sen ate to put the resolution through and their strength, they declare. will @ shown in the senate committee on judiciary, which must first pass ln the resolution before 1t is report cd to the senate.
 It is not SO certain that the reso- lation will go through the senate in the same form in which 1t passed the house, although a few of the senators think that probable.
 Borah Resolution.
 The House adopted what is known as the Borah resolution, providing that control of the times, places and manner Of election shall rest with the States instead of the Unit cd States That is also the form in which the bill was reported back from the judiciary committee and which was introduced in the senate of the last session. When it came to a final vote, however. lt had been changed by the Sutherland amend ment. so that it provided that con gress should retain control of the times, places and manner of holding the elections In that form, it lack ed only four votes of being adoptei. Ten of the senators who were oppos ed to it are now ont of the senate
 Dependent largely upon the atti tude of the senate judiciary com mittee is the answer to the ques ton whether or not the resolutior will receive action in the senate this session. Two known opponents of this change in the federal constitu ton are on the committee-Senator Dillingham; and Brandegee-and more may be put in the place O those who were retired on March z last. Senators Depew. Piles an Warner, all of whom opposed tho measure.
 Committee Favorable. With the democrats on the com mittee standing together for tho measure as 1t passed the house, an6 with three republicans standine with them. 1t is pointed out the resolution can be adopted out of the committee promptly. Senator Borab is on tie committee, and of course favors the resolution, as passed by the house. Senator Brown. Of Ne braska, is expected to get a place on the committee and he will vote to report it out of committee.
 Senator Borah and others who ] championed the measure in the last session have announced that they | will do all they can to bring the | question to aSvote in the senate without delay This means that they will get together and work to get the measure reported from the committee, as well as to push it 10 vote in the senate.
 When the resolution gets into ;he senate for action, there will be con. siderable debate over the fo:ni that it will take That was the reason for the fight at the last session which dragged along for weeks Against the resolution as 1t passed the house, representations will he made that it gives the sanction o' i congress to laws disfranehising .he negro vote of the south and an amendment will be attempted silni lar to the Sutherland amendment ci the last session, intended to iet congress control the elections fl Must Suit the States.
 Several of the senators who are supporting the resolution as passed by the house, giving the states con trol, urge it's passage in the same form by the senate, because they look forward to the ratification o the amendment by tbree-fodrths o ] the state legislatures. They poihi cut that the states cannot object tC l the resolution if it leaves them en ire control over the elections Many states, they think, would ob ject if an amendment gave congress control over the elections.
 The southern states would objec for fear that congress would nullify the negro Acknowledgement laws fl those states. Other states mighf . tjeet on the ground that congress could impose the burden of separate elections, and of peculiar eiectior systems upon them for the senator , ial balloting.
 Those senators who are agains giving the states control of th' elections will answer by contendini . that all fha afafa- exceuf fhe south