Evening times-Republican., 1911-03-10
OREGON PLAN BILL FAILS TO
PASS HOUSE OVER GOV.
ERNoR's VETO.
LACKED THREE VOTES
OF REQUIRED NUMBER
Taylor Furnishes Sen.
satien Of Contest BY Trying to Dodge
Vote and Losing Himself in Down.
Town Distret-Three Officers Final
Iy Find Him.
pecial to Times Republican.

Special TO Times Republican.
Des Moines. March 10.-The direct
election of senators by vote OF the peo-
pie at a general election, Went down to
defeat in a glorious finish late yester-
day afternoon. A gallant fight was
made for the measure. but almost from
the first il was seen that the cards had
been marked and the game was lost
1t meant two days of oratory, and that
on higher plane than anything else
during the session. in striking contrast
with the coarseness Of the attacks
made on the plan in the senate
The bill lacked three votes OF having
the number necessary for second
passage. but sixty-nine OF the los
mem bers of the house stood up and
made a record which shows that they
still believe that the people ought TO
have the righ, to choose senator's The
number of those who voted against the
measure had been doubled and thirty
seven nays were recorded.
Changes All One Way.
There was not one who had prev
iousIy voted no who now voted yes.
The changes were al! the other way. as
iels. Edmunds. Halgr1ns. Harding.
Jacobson. Moore. Patterson. Smith Of
Decatur. Speer, Stipe, Van Camp, Fry
and Shane.
Three who voted against ii had not
voted at all the other time, namely
Harvey, Crist. and Campbell. Of Ida
Those who voted for it but who we're
not recorded on Feb, !. We're Bruce
Dunlap. Leach, Linnan. Miller OF
Bremen.
The two absentees, Brockway and
Huntley, voted for the bill the other
time.
The only votes that caused any great
surprise and chagrin were those Of
Halgrinas. Brady. Collins and Fry. It
was claimed up to the ver~ hour OF the
voting that Halgrinls would not go
back on the bill and II was not gener-
ally known that Brady had been got
into the other camp.
The closing debate by Whitney
O'Conner. Harding, Zeller, Klay, Rip
ley. Jacobs and Perkins really added
but little to the stock Of information on
the subject. There was much amuse-
menc over Hardings attempt to explain
how very bad the bill IS. as he voted
for II only a month ago. but he in
SIS ecu ne NdI right TO chaNge his
mind. Near the close Of the debate the
main issue cropped out, that of the po-
ltical phases OF the system of electing
senators and there was a great deal Of
discussion as to the chance Of electing
democratic senators under the system.
Taylor Creates Sensation.
With all the oratory that had been
expended upon the oregon plan of SEN
atorial elections. and all the strained
effort at saying sharp things, it re-
n1ained for the old circus man. Fran
els j. Taylor, TO create the greatest
sensation of the whole fight. Taylor is
dem ocrat but great adrirer Of Cover
nor Carroll. He halls from a county
where factions are nearly evenly d.
vided. He beat Representative Ide.
who xas always elassed as a progress
sive. Taylor had voted FOR the Greg OH
plan, but the men who had made his
election possible were bombariing him
with demands that he change his mind.
AT noon he said to one OF his demo-
cratic friends that he did not want to
vote at all. that the s-andpatters had
elected him, that he felt under obl;ga-
tons 20 then, that he hated to offend
the governor, etc. but ne promised he
would stay and vote
II was said among the knowing ones