The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1911-03-08
KILLED SENATE VOTE BILL.
-,-,1,uERLAND AMENDMENT WAS
TOO HEAVY A BURDEN.
pocoo and Other Southern Senators
Feared Power of Congress Over
elections. Will Try Again.

feared Power OF congress ONCE
elections. Will Try Again.
WASHINGTON senate to-
,o,, defeated the resolution propos-
no an amendment to the constitu-
-, co as to provide that senators !
- elected by direct vote of the peo-
~, brave fight had been made !
r, the supporters of the measure, |
" nos indicated by the vote. Fifty /
a. e. senators stood for the resolu- |
Ion and thirty-three against it. |
5Tonv oDposed it because of the now
saT1ons Sutherland amendment. The |
rnnhnr was not sufficient by four
- carry the measure, which required |
+vo-fbirds vote for its success.
Immediately after the reading of
+ba Journal the popular election res
oTn+ion was taken up under unani- |
mons consent, granted last week. |
Co long had the resolution been be- !
fore the senate and so carefully had |
+bn members been canvassed by it's |
snnDorters and opponents that it was
racoonized from the moment the |
onastion was brought UP that it
would 90 down in defeat Never
+heIess there was a large attend
ance on the floor.
Bacon's Last Stand.
Though it had been understood
that debate would be shut off on the
measure when called up Senator
Bacon. who determinedly opposed
the resolution as it was altered I'M
der the Sutherland amendment, plac
ing control of the elections in 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 pro-
vide that the federal supervision Of
the elections should apply only in
those states wherein the legislatures
had failed to designate the manner
and method of holding the elections.
Vice President Sherman ruled the
Bacon amendment out of order and
the roll call was begun.
Gallinger's Mistake.
Though, as indicated, it was prac-
tically a fOregone conclusion that
the resolution would fail to get
two-thirds vote the roll call was fol-
lowed with deepest interest. For a
moment it was thought that calcu-
latiOns would be upset, for when
Senator Gallinger's name was reach
ed his answer was AYE Looks of
surprise were exchanged by many
senator's, for there is no more in
yeterate enemy to the resolution
than the New Hampshire senator.
The clerk had received several more
hnfnrn n fn MT
s Gallinger that something was wrong.
d He arose in some haste and had his
name shifted to the noes.
The roll was: Yeas-Bailey,
q Beverdge, Borah, Bourne, Bradley,
Briggs, Bristow, Brown Burkett,
Burton, Carter, Chamberlain, Clapp,
Clark of Wyoming, Clark of Arkan
sas, Culberson, Cullom, Cummins,
Curtis, Davis, Dixon, Dupont, Frye,
Gamble, Gore, GOrna, Guggenheim,
Jones, LaFollette, McCumber, Mar
tin, Nelson, Newlands, Nixon, Over
man, Owen, Paynter, Perkins, Piles,
Rayner, Shively, Simmons, Smith of
Maryland, Smith of Michigan, Smith
Of South Carolina, Stephenson, Stone,
Sutherland, Swanson, Taylor, Thorn
ton, Warner, Watson, Young.
Nays-Bacon, Bankhead, Brande-
q gee, Bulkely, Burnham, Burrows,
Crane, Depew, Dick, Dillingham;,
4 Fletcher, Flint, Foster, Gallinger,
Hale Hepburn, tombstone, Kean,
Lodge, Lorimer, Money, Oliver, Page,
Penrose, Percy, Richardson, Root,
Scott, Smoot, Taliaferro, Tillman,
Warren, Wetmore.
Yeas, "a; noes, SO; total 81.
Will Try Again.
There were four absentees, Sena-
tors Aldrich, Frazier, Crawford and
Terrell Had they been present Mr..
Terrell, it was announced, would
nave voted against the resolution,
and Mr.. Frazier for it. For Mr..
i AIdri0h no announcement was made
Later Mr.. Crawford appeared on the
moor and explained that he had over
slept and had then met the addi-
uonal annoyance of a street car de-
lay His vote, he said, would have
been aye"
The resolution will again be in
Iroduced at the first session of the
next congress, regular or extraordi-
nary and urged unremittingly
Friends of the measure may rest as
Sured that the matter will not be
permitted to be forgotten The next
congress, in my judgment, will pass
laVorably on the resolution"
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