The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-04
ROBSON IS ID OFFER AN ELECTION BILL Presidential Elections By
 Direct Vote TO BE BY AMENDMENT '"The President and Vice President Shall Be Elected By the Peo-
 pie of the Several
 States"
TO BE BY AMENDMENT
By WALTER HARPER

Washing ton, December B. Especially ) Capt Richmond Pearson Hobson, con gressman from the Sixth Alabama dis trist, will introduce a joint resolution in the early part of the coming session providing for the election of President and vice president of the United States by direct vote of the people.
 Following is a copy of the joint res olution:
 Election of President and vice presi- dent.
 Joint resolution proposing an amend- ment to the constitution providing that the President and vice president shall be nominated and elected by direct vote of the people of the several states.
 Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled (two- thirds of each house concurring there . ln). That in lieu of the second and fourth paragraphs of section 1 of ar ticle of the constitution of the United States, and in lieu of sections 1 and 2 of article 2 of amendments to the con- stitution of the United States, the fol- INV NAH6 pC piOPOScd dS di uiHchdiiiSit' to the constitution, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part Of the constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three -fourths of tn } states.
 Section l. The President and vice president shall be elected by the people of the several states, and the qualifica- tions for electors in each state shall be the same as the qualifications of elect ors for the most numerous branch of it's legislature.
 Sec. ?. The elections shall be held in the several states on the same day, and within 10 days after the day of election the governor of each state shall certify to the President the names of the per- sons voted for in his state for President and for vice president and the number of votes cast for each. The person re- ceiving the largest number of votes for President shall be elected President, provided such number is a majority of all the votes cast for President; and the person receiving the largest number of votes for vice president shall be elected vice president, provided such number is a majority of all the votes cast for vice president.
 In case no person receives a ma ajority of all the votes cast for President or for vice president, then the President shall call a second election, to be held on the last Thursday in November, for which election the ballots shall have the names of the person receiving tie largest number of votes and the person receiving the next largest number of votes in the first election, and no other names and the qualifications for electors slall be the same as for the first elec- ton.
 The person receiving a majority of all the votes cast for President in the second election shall be elected Presi- dent, and the person receiving a major ity of all the votes cast for vice presi- oent in the second election shall be elected vice president.
 Sec. 3. No person nominated by any political party shall be elected Presi- dent or vice president unless such nom- ination has been made by primary cleo tions held in the several states, at which elections the person nominated shall have received a majority of all the votes cast.
 Sec. 1. The Congress shall have power through appropriate legislation to en- force the provisions of this article.