The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1911-01-28
SENATORS OPPOSE
DIRECT ELECTION
Resolution viii Pass by Small
Majority If at All in .he
Upper House.
JAPANESE ADMlRAL's BREAK
Yashira at Panama crItlcises Plans
to Fortify canaI-New Senate
Leader Not Picked-Divorc-
Ing Postal Service From N
Politics. Z
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

BY GEORGE CLINTON.
, Washington.-From the day OF
} which recently the judiciary commit
tee Of the senate reported favorably 1
resolution submitting to the states thu
question Of a change In the Constitu
: Ion so as to provide for the direct cleo
ton of senators. opposition to the
movement has developed among mem
bers of the upper house who It was
supposed finally had yielded reluctant
consent to the plan for a change In
J the method In choosing senate mem
bers.
1t is perhaps probable that the reso-
luton will be given force and effect at
this session, but IL is going to win by
much smaller majority than was
phophesied for it two weeks ago. Only
two members of the judiciary COM
mittee voted against a favorable re-
port. They were Gallinger of New
Hampshire and Depew of New York.
The house of representatives on
four different occasions has passed by
a two-thirds vote a resolution propos-
Ing an amendment to the Constitution
providing for direct senatorial cleo
tons. Each time when the house ac-
ton has been submitted to the SEN
ate that body has failed to vote-vir-
tually has refused to vote-upon the
subject.
The house passed its first resolu-
ton In 1894 and 1t passed 1t again in
1898. in 1900 and in 1902, the last vote
being unanimous. 1t is not to be
doubted that recent charges made in
connection with the methods of the
election of senators from at least two
of the states were the moving cause
In creating renewal of the demand
that senators should be chosen direct
ly. Thousands of letters have been
received by senators telling them that
they must vote for a resolution chang.
ing the system of the election. These
letters unquestionably have had their
effect. 1t is predicted freely enough
In Washington that even II defeat
comes to the resolution in the senate
at this session, 1t will be for the last
time
Break by Japanese Admiral.
1t seems now that American officials
are not the only ones who make .in.
ternational breaks" when they deliver
themselves of after-dinner speeches.
No sooner had President Taft order.
ed the secretary of the navy to repri-
mand Capt. w. s. Sims, who made the
last drop of blood" speech in Eng
land, than Admiral Yashira, a Japan.
csc naval officer. in speech at Pan.
anna criticised somewhat sharply Pres.
ident Taft's recommendation that the
great waterway be fortified by the
United States.
At the time the speech was deliy-
cred the Japanese admiral was the
guest of Colonel Goethals, the Amer
lean army officer In charge of all canal
building work. Colonel Goethals. II
is known. is in favor of fortifying the
waterway, and 80 the speech of the
Japanese 1t Is claimed In Washington
was in double sense ungrateful and
close upo the discourteous.
sherman's West Point Search.
The officers of the Naval ACADEMY
have had some trouble because a few
of the midshipmen under their charge
recently succeeded in purchasing lio.
uor In Annapolis. II means dismissal
at both of the government schools
West Point and Annapolis, for any
cadet to be found under the influence
OF intoxicating liquor or to be found
drinking 1t or having It in his posses.
sion. An old army officer in Wash.
ington tells a story about visit
which Gen. William T. Sherman. when
he was in command Of the army. paid
to West Point.
Sherman wanted to look through
the cadet quarters and while he was
In one of the rooms he turned to the
commandant OF cadets and said.
when l was cadet we used to hide
contraband articles up the chimney.
wonder II the boys do 1t now" Saw
ing this the general stopped down
and ran his arm up the chimney. His
hand struck board which had been
wedged in and down fell a pack of
cards and a pint bottle OF whisky.
The general turned to the com.
mandant and looked little shame
faced. II didn't have any idea this
would hapepn." he said. "and as II
happened as 1t did. request that you
do not report the cadet who occupies
this room" No report was turned in
against the boy, but It is Unnecessary
to say that his whisky and his pack
Of cards were confiscated.
A. to Senate Leadership.
The United States senate when It
comes together for the first session OF
the Sixty-second congress win be only
in part recognizable to the people who
cit in the galleries. In fact, It win
be In large measure new senate.
There seems to be an impression in
the country that the senate changes
with slow pace, and yet SIS senator's
who were In ONCE less than five years