 | North Carolina. Department of Labor and Printing - 1887 - 264 Seiten
...countries. 18th. We demand that the constitutions, both State and National, be so amended as to provide for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. We learn from Col. LL Polk, Secretary of the North Carolina State Alliance, that the Alliance was introduced... | |
 | 1887 - 410 Seiten
...direct to the people, a graded income tax, reform in the taxation of land and real estate mortgages and the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. The principles of the Knights of Labor are fast extending. A contributor furnishes us with the fol... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly. Senate - 1888 - 1074 Seiten
...special order for that time. Carried. EILLS ON SECOND EEADING. Honse concurrent resolution relative to the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, with report of committee recommending that it be not concurred in, was taken up. Senator Taylor moved... | |
 | J. Morrison-Fuller, Walter C. Rose - 1890 - 528 Seiten
...existing, we demand the Government ownership of such means of communication and transportion. " 8. That the Congress of the United States submit an amendment...providing for the election of United States Senators by the direct vote of the people of eacli State ; also the President and Vice-President by a popular vote.... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1890 - 1144 Seiten
...Representatives of Massachusetts in Congress to favor an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, was accepted. Sent down for concurrence. The Senate report of the committee on the Judiciary, ibid,... | |
 | 1890 - 868 Seiten
...substituted, making the bonds payable with the premium of 20 or 25 per cent. Third, That we demand the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. Fourth, We demand the election of railroad commissioners by direct vote of the people, and that they... | |
 | 1891 - 828 Seiten
...insertion of the sub-treasury plan, the demand for a graduated income tax, and for the submission of an amendment to the constitution providing for the...United States Senators by direct vote of the people. — The tendency to combination of the various farmers' organizations has resulted in the substantial... | |
 | Nelson A. Dunning - 1891 - 824 Seiten
...countries. " 18. We demand that the constitutions, both State and national, be so amended as to provide for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people." The meeting closed amid universal satisfaction, and a general determination to take the order into... | |
 | Illinois. General Assembly. Senate - 1891 - 1328 Seiten
...sense of this assembly, that the constitution of the United States should be so amended as to provide for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and the Representatives in Congress from this State are hereby requested and the Senators are directed... | |
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We favor an amendment to the federal constitution providing for the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and we favor direct legislation wherever practicable. 
