The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-03-08
MEET DEFEAT
Seaate Resolution for Direct Election Of
Senator's Fails.
VOTE WAS VERY CLOSE
The Proposed Amendment to the
Federal Constitution Providing Cor
the Election Of Senators by the
Peop.> Falls Four Votes Short Of
the Necessary Two-thirds.

The United States Tuesday defeat
ed the resolution proposing an
amendment TO the Constitution so
as 70 provide that Senator'S De elect
ed by direct vote OF the people, a
brave fight had been made by the
supporters OF the measure. as was
indicated by the vote. F!tiy-four
Senator's stood for the resolution and
th!rty-three against It.
Though this division showed so
large a majority Of the Senate 20
favor popular elections. ye; the num-
Der was not sufficient. :: four. TO
carry the measure. which required
a two-:h!rds vote for Its passage.
Immediately after the reading OF
the Journal the popular election res
olu,!ou was taken up under unaa!-
nous consent. granted last week.
So long had the resolution been
before the Senate. and 50 carefully
had tie membership been canvassed
by its supporters and its opponents.
tha. It vas recognized from the mo-
mens the or e:ion was brought up
that it wou:> go down in defeat.
Nevertheless. there was large at
tendance on the floor.
Though it had been understood
that debate would be shut OF on the
measure when called up. Senator Ea-
con, who determinedly has opposed
the resolution as 1t was altered un-
der the Sutherland amendment.
placing contro! Of the elections n
the hands OF Congress. yet hoped to
have an amendment adopted that
might render the measure acceptable
to some OF the Southern Senator'S.
The Georgia Senator's effort was
TO provide that the final supervision
Of the elections should apply only in
those States wherein the Lesisla-
lures have failed TO designate the
manner and method OF holding the
elections. Vice President She-a.cn
ruled that the Bacon amendment
was out o. order and the ca,i was
begun.
Though. as indicated. It was prac-
tically soregone conclusion that the
resolution would fail TO get two
thirds vote. the roll-call was followed
with the deepest interest. Fer 9 mo-
ment i. was thoush tha; calculations
would be upset. for when Senator
Gallinger's name was reached his
answer was aye" Looks OF sur
prise were exchanged by many Sen
ato-s. for there Is no more !nret-
crate enemy to the resolution than
the New Hampshire Senator.
The roll-call: Yeas. Bailey. Bev-
e-idge. Rorah. Bourne. Bradley.
Briggs. iBris,ow. Brown. Surk-tt.
Burton. Carter. Chamberlain. Clapo.
Clark. OF Wyominc: Clark. Of Arkan-
sas: Culherson. Cullom. CumminSs.
Curtis. Davis. Dixon. Du Pont. FRYE.
Gamble. Gore. G-onna. GugEenheia.
Jones. LaFolle.te. McCum be.. Mar
tin. Nelson, Newlands. Nixon. Over
man. Owen. Paynter. Perkins. Piles.
Rayner. Shirely. Simmons. Smith. OF
Maryland: Smith. Of Michigan;
Smith. Of South Carolina: Stephen
son, Stone. Sutherland. Swanson.
Taylor. Thornton. Warner. Watson.
Young.
Nays: Bacon. Bankhead. Brande-
gee, Bulkeley. Burnham. Burrows.
Crane. Dcpew. Dick. Dillingham;.
Fletcher. Flint. Foster. GaiilaEer.
Hale. Hepburn. Johnston. KEN.
Lon.. Lo1imcr. Money. Oliver. PAGE
Penrose. Percy. Richardson. Root.
Scott. Smoot. Taliaferro. Tillnan.
Warren. Wetmore. Yeas. 5i: nays.
50. Total 81.
There were four abscntees. Seaa-
tors Aldrich. Frazier. Crawford and
Terrell. Had they been present. M'.
Terrell. it was announced. would
have voted against the resolution and
Mr.. Frazier for 4. For Mr.. Aldricl.
10 announcement was made. Later
Mr.. Crawford a:Hearcd on tac floor
and exr,ained that he had cversl Dt
and then made the additional an
councement Of 4 street car delay
HIS vote. be said. would have been