The Sentinel=record., 1911-06-13
ELECTION
 BILL PASSED
SENATE ADOPTS RESOLUTION AMENDING CONSTITUTION
 FOR DIRECT ELECTION
Brlstow Amendment Is Passed on a Tie Vote Which Is Decided by the Vote of Vice -President-Davis
 Called Down.

Washington. June 12.-The senat, tonight by 64 to "A, passed the reso.u- ton amending the constitution to pro- vide for elecion of senators by direct popular vote.
 The Bristow amendment giving tc the federal government supervision Of such elections was adopted A to A vice. president casting the deciding ballot. The house already has passed the resolution.
 Senator Reed of Mississippi, pro- tested against the vice. president casting his deciding vote. An amend : ment by Senator Bacon qualifying the Bristow amendment to prohibit fed . eral supervision of elections unless the state legislatures refuse or fail to act, defeated 45 10 43. The reso- lutlon as amended was then adopted
 Adoption of the Bristow amend ment which omitted the house pro- vision transferring supervision of senatorial elections from congress to the state legislatures was made possi- ble by Mir. Clark of Arkansas, cast ing the only democratic vote for the proposition. The tie on that ballot would have been prevented If his vote had been cast with his party, with whom he later voted on adoption of the resolution. On thie first ballot five republicans, Messrs. Borah, Gronna, La Toilette, Poindexter and Works, all insurgents, voted against the provision. On the resolution as amended the vote, GA to 24, was six more than the necessary two thirds majority. Of the 24 negative votes, eight were cast by democrats and sixteen by republicans, as follows:
 Republicans -Brandegee, Burnham, Dillingham;, Gallinger Hepburn, Lip pitt, Lodge, Lorimer, Oliver, Page, Penrose, Richardson, Root, Shoot anu Wetmore.
 Democrats Bacon, Bankhead, Fletcher. Foster, Johnston, Percy, Terrell and Williams.
 The resolution as amended and passed follows:
 That in lieu of the first paragraph of section three of article one of the constitution of the United States and in lieu of so much of paragraph two of the same section as relates to the filling of vacancies, the following be proposed as an amendment to the constitution which shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part oi the constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the states:
 The senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each stat elected by the peo- pie thereof for six years, and each senator shall have one vote The cleo tors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors oi the most numerous branch of the leg islatures.
 When vacancies happen in the rep resentat on any state in the senate the executive authority of such state shaI. issus writs Of election to i'll such vacancies, provided, that tho legislature of any state may empower the executive thereof to make temper ary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as th' legislature may direct.
 This amendment shall not be s' construed as to effect the election O term of any senators chosen befor' 1t becomes val.d as part of the con stitution."
 The amended resolution now zoe into conference before the senate ant house and some senators predict tha the house would refuse to accept II
 Having determined to vote today o the resolution looking to the electlol of United States senators by direc vote of the people, the senate devot ed it's undivided attention to the SUD ject.
 The rebate begun shortly ate noon. It soon drifted into politics affair. Democratic senators criticlse Senator iBristow's change of attitude MT. Bristow framed the pr'ncips amendment in the nature of a supst' ute to the main proposition and D sonehf to continue the supervision senatorial elections in congress m