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Debates in the Senate on the Seventeenth Amendment, 1912

1912. The Senate's proceedings on the joint resolution (H. J. Res. 39) proposing the Seventeenth Amendment in the second session of the Sixty-second Congress: the items headed “Election of Senators by Direct Vote” of April 17 and 23, 1912, as printed in the Congressional Record.

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    April 17, 1912

    7 paragraphs1 min
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    April 23, 1912

    127 paragraphs28 min

Text of Congressional Record: Containing the Proceedings and Debates of the 62nd Congress, 2d session, vol. 48 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1912), the bound edition, read from OCR; the debates are given as reported, not always word for word.How this text was made

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