...ROBSION. Does not your referendum show that you did? Mr. SHELTON. No, sir. Mr. ROBSION. You opposed the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people? Mr. SHELTON. That is not true. Mr. ROBSION. They opposed the granting of suffrage to women? Miy SHELTON....

...convention for the purpose of submitting to the States for ratification an amendment to the Federal Constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. When, therefore, the thirty-first or thirty-second memorial shall have been received by Congress, it...

...nominations as well as elections to be made by popular vote; of the recent amendment of the federal constitution providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote in place of by the legislatures of the different states; and of the present movement to bring about...

...140 CHICAGO DAILY NEWS ALMANAC AND YEAR-BOOK FOR 1913. It has proposed an amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. It has secured the admission of Arizona and New Mexico as two sovereign states. It has required the...

...Speaker announced the receipt of a communication from the Secretary of State of Oregon, relative to the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. 30-A REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES. ON WATS AND MEANS. ASSEMBLY CHAMBER, SACRAMENTO, February 12,...

...Each was a marked departure from the fundamentals of the original draft. The Seventeenth Amendment, providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, was a body blow to the sovereignty of the States; yet the people, at the time, altogether failed to...

...a viva voce vote. Mr. Bristow wanted to amend the income tax resolution by adding to it a provision for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. This was ruled out of order. On July 12 the income tax constitutional amendment was adopted by the...

...members of the houses of representatives of the several States. Later on, the Constitution was amended, providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people and this same qualification-of-voters clause was used. There has been much said about whether this...

...tax. There is no similar grant in the Confederate constitution. "The seventeenth amendment provides for the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people, shelving the old method of election by the legislature. This was not even thought of in the Confederate...

...recent State Democratic Convention of Nebraska, especially the following paragraphs, viz: "We favor the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the People and regard this reform as the gateway to all other National reforms. A private monopoly Is indefensible...