The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-10
Victory Is Won In Senate
 Over Bi||'s Opponents
BAD AMENDMENTS KILLED
Sutherland and Depew Are Strongest Opponents to the Measure in the Committee Hut They Are
 Downed
BY wATTERsON sTEALEY

Washington, January 9.-(Special. 1.-The preliminary skirmish in the struggle in the United States Senate for the election Of it's members by popular vote was won late this afternoon when the judiciary committee agreed by vote of ten to two to favorably report the subcommittee substitute for the Bristow resolution. It's an ill wind that blows no good, and to the corruption and bribery exposed in the Lorimer case, with the attendant arousing of public sentiment against the report exonerating him. may in no small degree be attributed the action of the Senate removing state legislatures from the auction block.
 The language of the resolution agreed upon is identical with that of one report ed to the House of Representatives near ly a quarter of a century ago by Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia, and which rassed the House at that time. This resolution proposes an amendment to the constitution providing for the popular election of senators and leaving the reg ulation of these elections in the hands of the state.
 subcommittee of the Senate judiciary committee, consisting of Senators Rayner of Maryland, Borah of Idaho and Suther- land of Utah. recently, after careful con- sideration of the subject. agreed that the amendment proposed in the Tucker reso- lution Is the best and that resolution was favorably reported to the Full committee for its action today.
 Although the committee finally agreed by overwhelming vote to favorably report the resolution without amendment, bit ter all-day struggle took place in the con- mittee between the advocates of the t,- to defeat the resolution by loading 1t down with objectionable amendments. intended to deprive the states of the control over the election of senators.
 Tucker Resolution Best
 Senators Depew. Dillingham;. Nelson and Sutherland did everything within theii power to mangle the proposition with ob- jectionable amendments and a number of votes were taken.
 southerIand's Amendment
 On one of these votes. that upon an amendment offered by Senator Suther land, and intended to restore a phrase fl the constitution which the proposed amendment intends to eliminate, the vote was a tie. It stood 6 to $. and this defeated the Sutherland proposition. At this particular juncture it looked as though opponents of the plan were gaining ground. One more vote would have given them the upper hand in the committee. The object of the Suth erland amendment was to give Con gress the power to take away from the state legislatures the control over senatorial elections. Senator Depew led a hard fight for the amendment to provide for uniform system of sen atorial elections to be adopted by Con- gress which would have given Con- gress the power to register the negro vote of the southern states.
 On these and a number of other amendments the vote was exceedingly close
 All Amendments Beaten
 The committee began tackling the subject at 10:30 o'clock this morning and met until noon without reaching a final determination. After the ad- journment of the Senate the struggle was resumed in committee and con tinued until nearly o'clock this aft ernoon, when all the amendments hav- ing been defeated after a neck and neck struggle. the final vote was taken and the resolution adopted.
 Twelve members of the committee were present.
 The 10 voting to favorably report the matter were: Democrats--Rayner Of Maryland, Culberson of Texas, Clarke of Arkansas, Oyerman of North Carolina, ana faynter or hentucky. Republicans --Borah of Idaho. Clark of Wyoming, Nelson of Minnesota Sutherland of Utah. Warner of Missouri.
 The only two voting against report ing the resolution providing for this proposed constitutional amendment were Depew of New York and Dilling- ham of Vermont, both republicans.
 Vigorous Fight Ahead
 The resoluttQn will be reported to- morrow to the Senate by MT. Borah of Idaho who was chairman of the ~~~
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