The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-06
First Test of Seventeenth Amendment Comes
 This Year
MUCH INTEREST IN
 THE ALABAMA RACE
Result of Today's Election Here Be- ing Awaited With Eagerness by Entire Country-Many Sena-
 tors Ask for Re- Election

Washington, April 5.-Thirty- three United States senators will be elected this year by direct vote of the people in the first general test of the sev- enteenth amendment to the eonstitn- tion. Primary elections and oonven- tions for the nomination of various can didates already have been held in some states and will continue throughout the country for several months pre- liminary to the general elections next fall.
 Terms of 31 senators expire March l 3, next, and in addition to these sue cessors must be chosen to the late Senator Johnston of Alabama and the late Senator Bacon of Georgia. In each state two senators will bo elected. In Georgia besides a successor to Sen ator Bacon there will be a contest over the seat of Senator Holke Smith, who Is candidate 10 retain his seat. In Alabama, besides the election of a sue cessor to Senator Johnston for the regular term, beginning March I. next there will be a senator choseen to i'll his uneNpired term, who will sit until March 3. 1915, only. In Louisiana, al- though Senator Thornton's term ex- pires, there win be no election, be- cause Representative Broussard al- ready has been elected to the Louisiana seat
 or the sitting members of tue Sen ate. whose terms expire. 17 are repub- lieans and n democrats. In the Alabama and the Georgia elections. democrats arc certain to be chosen
 l Expiration of Terms
 Senators whose tenns oxpirS are: ioeniocratss-eseorsc a'.J J-haniberlain. ore }. gon; James P Clarke, Arkansasi Dun can '. Fletcher, Florida Thomas P Gore, Oklahoma; Francis G. Newlands, Nevada; Lee $. Overman, North Caro- lima; Benjamin r. Shiveley. Indiana: Ellison D. Smith, south Carolina; Hoke Smith, Georgia; John Walter smith, Maryland; Marus A. smith, Arizona; William ]. stone. Missouri Charles $. Thomas, Colorado; John k. Thornton, Louisiana.
 Republieans-wi William O. Bradley.
 
 Frank B. Brandegee. Connecticut; Joseph L. Bristow, Kansas Theodore E. Burton, Ohio: Coo L Crawford, south Dakota Albert B. Cummins, Iowa: William P. Dillingham;, Vermont. Jacob IT. Galinger, New Hampshire; A. |. Gronna, North Dakota; Wesley L.. Jones. Washington; Boies penrose, Pennsylvania; George c. Perkins, Cal ifornia; Eihu Root, New York; Law renee Y, sherman. Illinois, Reed Shoot, Utah: Isaac Stephenson, Wisconsin.
 Most of the republicans whose terms expire are candidates to succeed them selves, altho nh ti,~re have been ru- mors that Senators Bradley of Ken lucky. Gallinger of Now Hampshire and Root of New York might retire. No definite announcements have been made however, in these cases. Senator Craw- ford of South Dakota has just been defeated in the primary fight for nom ination. losing to Representatives Charles Henry Burke of South Dakota. Of the democrats whose terms ex- pile. all except Senator Thornton are candidates to succeed themselves. Senator Shiveley of Indiana already has been nominated in convention, and in the recent Arkansas primaries ac- cording to uncanvassed returns. Sena- | tor Clarke was nominated by a small majority. There may yet be some con l troversy over this nomination. In Ala bama. the senatorial primaries will be | held tomorrow, Representative Under wood and Representative Richmond ! Pearson fIobson being the candidates for the long term. The result of that contest is being awaited with interest, not only in Washington. but through out the country
 Lively Contest in House | A lively contest already is under way in Kansas, where Representative Victor Murdoct seeks the senatorial nomina- | tion at the hands of the progressive party to enter the lists against Sen ator Bristow. and where former Senator | Curtss seeks to win the republican nomination from Senator Bristow
 The fight in Pennsylvania already is | booming. primaries to be held next month. The outlook is that Senator Penrose will be nominated by the re- Palmer by the democrats and Clifford | Palmer by the democrats, and Clifford Pinchot as the candidate of the pro- gressive party element.
 | In fact, political pots are boiling in nearly all of the states where sena- torial elections will be held and that Is one of the reasons why members of issue, the trust legislative programme and other pressing matters before Con gress can be wound up in time for early adjournment.
 The present prospect, however, Is that the session will not adjourn be- fore July l, if then.