Debates in the Senate on the Seventeenth Amendment, 1911

May 17, 1911

ELECTION OF SENATORS BY DIRECT VOTE.1 min read
1: Senate, May 17, 1911, ¶ 1 (Senate1911.May17.1)

Mr. BORAH. I move that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 39) proposing an amendment to the Constitution providing that Senators shall be elected by the people of the several States.

2: Senate, May 17, 1911, ¶ 2 (Senate1911.May17.2)

The motion was agreed to, and the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the joint resolution. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is on agreeing to the amendment offered by the Senator from Kansas [Mr. BRISTOW].

4: Senate, May 17, 1911, ¶ 4 (Senate1911.May17.4)

l\Ir. WARREN. Will the Senator from South Dakota yield to me for a moment to present a matter?

5: Senate, May 17, 1911, ¶ 5 (Senate1911.May17.5)

The PRESIDING OFFICER. Does the Senator from South of the Chair. Dakota yield to the Senator from Wyoming?

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