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DIRECT ELECTION
BILL IS PASSED
RESOLUTION AMENDING FER
ERAL CONSTITUTION ADOPTED
BY VOTE OF Ga TO ~.
NOT DEBATE LASTS TILL NIGHT

Dplstow Amendment Giving Nation
eupervisIon Also Goes Through
With Vice Presidents
Vote.
Washington, June 13.-The senate
bg "a to "a passed the resolution
amending the constitution to provide
for the election OF senators by direct
popular vote. The Bristow amend.
1ent, giving to the federal govern.
meat supervision of such elections.
was adopted A to AZ, the vice presi.
deN casting the deciding ballot. The
house already has passed the resolu-
ton.
Senator Reed of Missouri protested
aSataet the vice president casting his
decking vote. An amendment by
Senator Bacon qualifying tho Bristow
amendment to prohibit federal super.
vision of election unless the state leg
1slAture refuse or fail to act was de-
feahpd Is to 4s. The resolution as
amended was then finally adopted 81
TO ~
Adoption of the Bristow amendment
which omitted the house provisions
transferring supervision of senatorial
elections from congress to the state
hRblatu1e was made possible by Mr.,
Clarke Of Arkansas casting the only
Democratic vote for the proposition.
The tie on that ballot would have been
pCsvsnted n his vote had been cast
with his party, with whom he later
voted On adoption of the resolution.
On this ffrst ballot five Republicans,
Messrs. Borah. Gronna. La FonettA
po1ndextsr and Works, all insurgents,
votsd against the provision. On the
resolution Is amended the vote stood
a. to "A. or six more than the neces-
say two-th1rds majority.
Names of Negative Voters.
Of the "a negative votes eight were
cast by Democrats and 16 by Repub.
licans, as follows:
Republicans = Brandegee, Burnham,
Lippttt, Lodge, Lorimer, Oliver, Page,
Penrose, Richardson, Root, Smoot and
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Wetmore.
Democrats Bacon, Bankhead,
Fletcher. Foster, tombstone, Percy,
Terrell, and Williams.
The resolution as amended and
passed follows:
! That in lieu of the first paragraph
! of section of article l of the consti-
tuition of the United States, and in lieu
of so much of paragraph Of the same
section as relates to the filling of va
cancies, the following be proposed as
an amendment to the constitution,
which shall be valid to all intents
and purposes as part of the constitu
ton when ratified by the legislatures
OF three-fourths of the states:
People to Elect Senators.
1.-THE senate of the United States
shall be composed of two senators
from each state, elected by the people
thereof, for six years, and each sem
ator shall have one vote. The electors
In each state shall have the qualifica-
lions requisite for electors of the most
numerous branch Of the state legislar
lures.
when vacancies happen in the rep
ressntation Of any state In the senate
the executive authority Of such state
shaA issue wrtts Of election to fill such
vaoaactes; provided, that the legisla-
ture of any state may empower the
executive thereof to make temporary
appointments until the people fill the
vacancies by election as the legisla-
turs may direct.
This amendment shall not be 80
construed as to AFFECT the election or
term of any senator chosen before It
becomes valid as part of the constitu-
ton"
The amended resolution now goes
into conference between the senate
and house, and some senators predict
ed that the house would refuse to 40
cept it.
The debate began shortly after
noon. 1t soon drifted into q political
affair. Democratic senators criticized
Senator Bristow's change of attitude.
Mr.. Bristow framed the principal
amendment, in the nature of q sub
stitute to the main proposition, and
he seeks to continue the supervision
Of senatorial elections in congress In.
stead of delegating It to the states,
as proposed by the house resolution.
In the last session the Kansas SEN
ator voted against the amendment Of.
fered by Senator Sutherland of Utah,
which would have had the same effect
as his own provision of this session
Explains His Attitude.
Mr.. Bristow said that in both In.
stances his attitude had been dictated
by his desire to do that which most
certainly would insure the success OF
the popular election resolution.
Senator Borah, in charge of the res
olution, spoke in support of 1t. and
Senator Bacon opposed the Bristow
amendment.
Senator Davis of Arkansas, refer
ring by name to Senators Cummins
Clapp and La Toilette, declared the
insurgency crowd never has been sin
oere on any subject it has brought
before the country" The chair called
Mr.. Davis to order.
Mr.. Bacon aroused feeling by de
elar1ng that great interests had been
bringing enormous pressure to beal
to defeat the resolution.
An Error.
First Anarchist-Don't you think
1t would be a good idea to throw
bombs all the time to terrorize the
public?