Bisbee daily review., 1911-02-15
tBy John Temple Graves.)

t0g SOIA 4NAABAE WASHINGTON, D. c. Feb. 14- It Is astonishing to note, in this progressive age, the vitality of the ancient political creeds and dogmAs ! of an earlier day.
 1 Here. for instance. rises the an cient democratic doctrine of states rights as an obstacle in the path way of the popular election of sena- tors by the people. The old doctrine for which Calhoun fought and for which Andrew Jackson threatened to hang him high as Haman" old doctrine around which Webster and Hayne contended in the early fifties, the old doctrine around which the war in part Vas builded-comes once more to hamper and handicap the free passage of democracy to- ward the real triumph of the peo- pie in direct choosing Of the men who are to represent them in the senate of the United States.
 Senator Borah's bill for the pOpu- lar election of United States senators has been storm-swept with amend n ents from the day that it entered the senate. Depew has projected his ideas into the bill, and Suther- land has endeavored to hammer the states rights out of it for the sake Of the republicans of an opposite faith
 The constitution provide thai United States senators shall be l electe1 by the legislatures of the several states. under certain prescrib { ed conditions. with other conditions Senator Rorah of Idaho wrote z straight clean amendment to tho constitution, providing that the sena tors shall be elected by the people Of the several states. This was iI accord with the popular sentiment o the times
 To this amendment Senator Depev tackled on an amendment putting tn general function under the charge O the federal government. Senate Sutherland Of Utah. advanced towar, the same end by indirection. offerin' no resolution of bis own, but strik ing out of the Borah amendment t' the constitution that clause whicl i-I-.- i-I7- -s>,a that sre times, places an, manner of holding popular election for senators shah be prsscribed il each state by the legislature there [ or.
 | The democratic mEmbers of tn senate to a man E.re in favor O i popular eSection ol senators. Bu true to thelcs e1cfent, even if mist traditions, they oppose any interpc latiOn into the amendment whic | strikes al the doctrine of state right and transfers the authority in thi
 matter to the federal government
 The insurgents are one with tn I democrats in favor of the Bora
 amendment for popular elections. an
 will also vote against the Sutherian l amendment or omission.
 The republicans. who are at heaI
 opposed altogether to the popula
 election are speaking. and arguin,
 in favor of amendments which Df.
 fer the authoriay of the federal gn'
 ernment over the function of cleo
 ing senators.
 And so 1t happens that in this a.
 FaDeed year of grace and of nolitics progress in an parties, the senate (
 the United States is much more a
 arena in which Senators Root an
 Lodge voice the plea for the feder:
 idea as emphatically as Daniel We
 stcr did, and in which Senators .Ba ley and Bacon and Newlands and L Toilette fight for the states right
 idea as earnestly and forcefully g { did Calhoun and Havne in the di
 cgssions preceding the greatest d
 bate that the American senate ev,
 knew.
 This is the situation which Is cc- pl:cating the situation here over tn vital measure of the popular electio ! of senators. Senator Borah tel me today thar more careful exar
 ination has iCd thedcMocrats Co b