South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1913-12-18
WHO WILL SUCCEED
ROOT FOR SENATOR
QUESTION IN n. Y.
Made Interesting by Amendment
for Popular Election of Sen
atorS Since This Mode is Not
Fashionable in State.
BY gibson GARDNER.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18-The ques-
tion who will succeed Elihu Root as
senator from New York is soon to oc-
cupy the attention Of that state. 1t
is made more interesting by the fur
ther question, VI hat effect will the new
amendment 10 the constitution pro-
viding fer popular election Of sena-
tors, Will have in a state like New
York where popular elections have
not been fashionable
Roots term expires in March, 1915.
Next spring he viii have to think
about denomination If he is going to
run as the part candidate. The leg
islature also must soon think about
the question. for the constitution now
provides that the senator's OF each
state shall be elected by the people
thereof, and that the legislature Of
any state may empower the executive
TO make temporary appointments until
the people fill the vacancies by cleo
tian as the legislature may direct"
In other words. there must be new
law in New York providing for the
election OF United States senators by
the people in conformity with the
amended constitution OF the United
States This is true also of all states
having senator's to elect, but il is OF
particular interest TO those 80 states
which have senator's whose terms eX-
pire on the same date that Roots ex-
pires
The legislature might pass a law
providing for nominations by direct
primaries or 1t might authorize party
conventions to nominate and thus
offer the people merely a choice be-
tween party candidates. Either way
would probably comply with the con-
stitutiona1 amendment for election by
the people. If the latter way is adopted
4rea lion
made by the democratic organization
dominated possibly by Tamany. while
the republican nomination would be
controlled by Barnes and the progress
sive nomination by Roosevelt.
In sending DR.. William Bayard Hale
10 Mexico to secure information as TO
the condition Of the revolution, Pres
Wilson follows a precedent set in 1850
when Pres Taylor sent an unofhcial
agent TO Hungary to report upon the
condition of the revolutionary move
rnpnt there with the intention of rec
ognizing the insurgent government If
there were sufficient grounds for do
ing so. In that case, however, the
agent arrived only to find the revolu-
tion crushed. A protest was made at
that time by ATr. Hulsemann, the Aus
trian charge d'affaires who complain
ed OF the administrations course, and
later Daniel Webster, who had become
secretary OF state, rplied to this note
in a sharp rebuke. Webster'S letter
set forth strongly the right OF the
United States TO recognize any defacto
revolutionary government II might
choose. and 10 seek information in all
proper ways to guide its action. II
was at the same time that KOssuth
and his compatriots, who had fled 70
Turkey, were brought to the United
States In an American frigate, and the
Hungarian hero was received with a
burst of enthusiasm which, my con-
trast. suggested the hostility accorded
that other rebel Emmeline Pank-
hurst, when she landed at Ellis Island,
In this city the inspectors have au-
thority TO destroy spoiled vegetables
or meat when offered for sale, but they
are not authorized 10 seize infected
milk or TO prevent its sale except by
slow, legal process in the civil courts.
There are % milk shops in addition
TO the numerous lunch counters and
groceries which sell milk, and which
consequently are unregulated and un-
inspected by reason of the ant1quated
laws. Congress is responsible Tor the
government OF the District; the people
have no votes.
In his lecture on Manila, Burton
Holmes shows how the United States
authorities have drained the swamp
lands. and built sanitary and beau
tiful water front on the water side or
Manila. Within three-quarters OF a
mile from the capitol building there
ere swamps undrained, pesulential.
ugly and unecOnOmic, TO which CON
gress has never given any attention.
The reform which begins at home does
not seem 10 extend 10 the District OF