The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-15

iVlCto lAOuSC Ol ht Ol Atih "Now, if I could select. I would enact | the bill that we voted for in the House originally. I prefer that form of the bill but I realize, as every other man within | the sound of my voice realizes, that if | you do not pass this bill as 1t Is proposed l by the chairman of the committee, the | gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Rucker). you defeat the proposition, and it will not
 be submitted to the people of the United | States for them to pass upon.
 We are not enacting this into law. | If 1t is vicious proposition, one more
 than a fourth of the states can defeat | 1t. It goes to the people and the states
 for their determination. I would vote
 for the proposition offered by the gen
 tleman from Georgia (Mr. Bartlett), If
 I had not reached the conclusion that
 the adoption of his amendment would
 endanger the vital proposition that Is
 pending before the House. If I were assured that the proposition offered by the gentleman from Georgia could be adopted as an amendment and passed | by the Senate of the United States If were assured that we could adopt his amendment and that 1t would go to | the Senate and the bill would come back here and we would get a chance to vote on 1t. I would vote for the proposition offered by the gentleman from Georgia. But. believing as l do. that if we adopt that amendment and send the bill back to the Senate of the United States we would thereby ring | it's death knell, and that the only chance, after awaiting for decades, of giving the people of the United States | an opportunity to vote on constitu- | tional amendment that will give them the free right to select their represent | tatives, to voice their will in both branches of Congress, is to pass this I,tf hV the gentle man from Missouri (Mr. Rucker). I, with my vote, will sustain him when ! the roll Is called" (Applause.)
 Hobson With Underwood Representative Hobson of Alabama and Representative Henry of Texas voted against the Bartlett amendment and In favor of the Fucker resolution on yesterday and made vigorous speeches In support of their position. Tt is clearly a question of whether we will have the resolution as 1t comes to us now or not have 1t at all,' said MT. Hobson.
 q do not have any misgivings about
 the federal government of the United States imposing upon any section of the United States. (Applause.) I do not be- lieve it will enter the heart of one American citizen in 10000 to employ l federal troops or any other form of CO., eTClOn, upon any dCiicn III tit ChAtSN States. (App1ause.) The federal gov ernment is nothing but an instrument | of all the states and the southern states themselves make up a consider able part of the number of all the states"
 Representative Henry. of Texas said if the resolution should go back to the Senate with the Bartlett encum- brance" the reform would be postponed for many years
 "The gentleman from Georgia tMr.
 Bartlett) conjures up force bills and says they will be put upon the south again.
 There is no man anywhere who has higher regard for the sovereignty and rights of the states than I have. but
 force bills have no terror for me in this day and generation. for they are not again coming. My God, will sec tionalism never cease and will not men
 on both sides of this House lay it aside when we are considering great con- stitutional question?'