The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-22
MONTANA SENATOR
 MAKES HOT SPEECH.
Charges of Ignorance and Job
 bery Are Made
COLLEAGUES WARNED
Senator Carter Declares That Congress Should Regulate the Election h of Senators and Not
 the states

Washington. January 21.-Northern sen- ators who support the pending resolution for the election of senators by popular vote were. charged with ignorance by Senator Carter of Montana in a speech to- day, and southern senators with scheme to saddle constitutionally the disfran- chisement of negro votes upon the coun- . try.
 He contended that the resolution when sent to the committee on judiciary car ried only the simple proposition of hay ing senators elected by direct vote, and that the other proposition had been adopted as rider in order to get the support of senators who favored giving the legislatures the right of disfranchise- ment of negroes
 ''The occasion demands plain speech and forbids evasion" said MT. Carter. Ger tain senators not content with the suc- cess obtained in suppressing the negro vote through curious variety of state constitutional provisions and legislative device, now seek absolutely to deprive the general government of all power to protect the election of members of the Senate from such fraud, violence or cor ruption as may taint senatorial election north or south.''
 Disfranchisement Question. ig
 He said that adoption of the amend ment would give substantial though lim- ited national sanction to the disfran- chisement of negroes in the southern states.
 Tn their dsfranchisement," said MT. Carter, i've now passively acquiesce but with this supine attitude some senators are not content; they ask us actually to strip Congress of the power to question election methods and actions insofar as the election of United States senators may be concerned, and by way of in- ducement to Congress and the nation to consent to the permanent suppression of more than 100000 votes at elections to choose senators, they will cooperate in the adoption of a constitutional amend ment providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people,"
 MT. Carter admitted that perplexing questions confront the people of the south but warned the senators supporting the proposed constitutional limitations ''that they had better allow time and tolerant public sentiment to aid in the solution of certain problems rather than to in- vite the country to give constitutional sanction to -deplorabe expedients which every patriotic citizen must earnestly pray may not long be deemed necessary in the south.'
 Lodge Election Bill E.,
 The senator recalled the Lodge election bill, it's defeat and the reaction that ''swept practically. every section of the old federal election laws from the statute books, but there the reaction stopped and the country settled down in patience for a period ofsreflectionA and observation,s To the senator there occurred no reason. for fear that this period would not be long continued unless the men of the south shall insist upon immediate and final dis position of the issues by the abrogation of the power of the federal government to deal with it. Tssz
 The spectacle of state electing one person for 10 terms in the Senate or 10 persons for one term would not, be inn possible, the speaker urged. under the. amendment recited in the committee res- CT to control the time of election of senator a state could not be called tc account for the manner of exercising that power
 With power to elect senators of the United States for an indefinite number of terms at one time,'. said the speaker, 5"the way would be made for the pas sage of infanned passion, partsanship or sectionalism from one generation 10 another. It win of course, be contended that no state would pass a law author izing the things suggested to which re- ply, No state should be invested with power to enact such a law ' A