The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-06-22
SENATORS
BY d RECT VOTE
Srlstow Amendment Gets a Tie
Vote and Vice President Sher-
man Casts Decisive Vote in
Its Favor-Attitude of
Southerners.
SOutherners,

Senators. The vote was "a to "a,
more than the required two-thirds.
But the Bristow amendment, which
retains Federal control over the
time, place and manner of holding
the elections in the various States
was added TO the resolution. On this
vote the Senate divided equally A to
a. and Vice President Sherman cast
the deciding vote, which resulted in
the adoption of the Bristow amend
ment.
The result came shortly after 10
o'clock last night, after the Senate
mad been considering the matter for
ABOUT ten hours without a recess. An
effort at O'Clock to get the Senate
10 take recess until today noon met
with so much opposition that Senator
Lodge, who proposed the recess with
drew the motion.
-Four Roll Calls.
Inc roll calls. of which there were
-FOUR, were attended with keen inter
est and suspense. The question as to
the adoption Of the Bristow amend
ment was i'm doubt up until the last
name on the roll call was reached
me latter was that of the insurgent
republican, Senator Works. of Cali
Iorhla; He voted against the Bristow
amendment and made the tie.
The insurgent Republicans showed
evidences of their recent divisions.
senators Bourne. Bristow, Brown.
Clapp, Crawford Cummins. Dixon
ana ke[yon, of their number, voted
Tor the Bristow amendment Sena-
tors Eorah. Gronna La Toilette. Poin-
dexter and Works voted against il
me split among the INSURGENTS was
the most interesting feature of the
vote. Senator Clarke. of Arkansas
was the only Democratic Senator who
voted for the Bristow amendment.
ana he was subjected to much criti-
cism.
The opposition to the Rristow
n
from the Southern Democrats. who
believed its adoption would deprive
the Southern States of their power TO
prescribe the qualifications for voters
ana practically nullify the various dis
quallhcauOns under which the negro
voters from the South have been ex-
cluded from the privilege of the fran
chlSe. Among the Democrats who
voted against it were Bacon and Ter
rel, OF Georgia: Bankhead and John
ston, OF Alabama; Fletcher. of Flor
lda; Foster, of Louisiana. and Percy
and Williams, of Mississippi Senator
Illlman. of South Carolina, was pair
ed in opposition to il.
Southern Democrats ODDoSe
II was the opposition Of the south
ern Democratic Senators to the reso-
luton as II was amended by the Suth-
GRAND amendment which killed the
dlrect elections matter at the regular
session Of Congress. Therefore. when
Senator Clarke voted in favor of the
BristoW amendment there was much
disappointment among his collea CUES
anu especially the Southern Demo
Gratis. But for Mr.. Clarke's vote in
favor Of the Bristow amendment il
would have failed and all that the
southern Democratic Senators were
hghting for would have been achieved.
But Mr.. Clarke's attitude should have
been no occasion for surprise for he
voted i'm the same way at the regular
session.
The first vote came up on the
amendment offered by Senator Bris-
Tow, which was practically the Suth-
erland amendment Of the regular ses-
sion. ON that question the vote was
as follows:
Ayes and Nays.
Heas-Bourne, Bradley. Brandegee,
Brlggs' Bristow, Brown. Burnham.
Burton Clapp, Clark Of Wyoming.
crane, Crawford. Cullom, Cummins.
Curtis. Dixon, Du Pont. GalIinger.
Gamble, Guggenheim, Hepburn Jones.
Kenyon, Lippitt, Lodge, Lorimer. Me
Cumber. Mclean, Nelson. Nixon oil
Yer, Page, Penrose, Perkins Richard |
son. Root, Smith of Michigan, Smoot.
Stephenson, Sutherland. Townsend
Warren and Wetmore (RepubIicans). !
Total, A.
Nays-Borah, Gronna, la Toilette
PolndeNter and Works (Republicans) |
and Bacon, Bailey, Bankhead BRYAN |
Chamberlain, Chiffon, Culberson. Da- |
MS. FLETCHER Foster, Gore. Hitchcock
johnson, Johnston. Kern. Lea. Mar
TIN. MARITIME, Myers. Newlands. O'Gor-
man, OVerman. Owen, Paynter. Percy |
Pomerene, Rayner, Reed. ShiVelv /
simmons Smith of Maryland. smith |
of South Carolina. stone. Swanson
Taylor Terrell Thornton, Watson |
ana Williams tDcmocrats). Total. "A. |
On Amended Bill
me second roll cali came on the |
Int ion,
of the Bristow amendment. Much |
importance attached to this vote. be-
cause II was upon that that the fate
OF the direct elections matter hung.
The call of the roll was followed with !
the closest interest. The vote was Ga |
to PA. All of the Democrats voted for
the resolution except the following.
who opposed il solely because of the
BrlstoW amendment: Bacon. Bank
mead FLETCHER, Foster, Johnston,
Percy, Terrell and Williams.
The following Republican Senators
voted against the resolution: Brande-
gee. Burnham, Crane, Dillingham;.
Gallinger Hepburn, Lippitt, Lodge.
hoIliner, OlVer' Page Penrose, Rich
ardson, Root, Smoot and Wetmore
These votes were taken while the
matter was in Committee of the
whole. After it was reported to the
senate Senator Bacon offered an
amendment which limited The ever
within the States to occasions in which
the States should fail TO provide for
times, places and manner" of hold
ing elections. This amendment, which
was voted for by all of the Demo-
Gratis and BOrah. La Toilette. Poin-
dexter and Works. Republican insur-
gents, was defeated by only three
votes, the vote being 43 to 46.
The Final Vote
The final roll call came on a motion
OF Senator Hepburn that the Senate
should repeat the yea and nav vote
taken in the Committee of the Whole
In the open Senate, and the formality
was carried out, but the vote on adoD-
ton OF the resolution as amended re-
NAMED the same-64 to "a
The resolution having been amend
ed by the Senate will go back to the
House Of Representatives, and, unless
the House concurS in the Senate
amendment, it will be necessary to
send the matter to a conference com
mlttee of the two Houses. 1t is the
opinion of the Senate leaders that the