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Show H UTAH IN THE SENATE. BBBJ H The resolution providing for the popular election of United states senators was defeated in the senat on Tuesday. As we .pre- dieted, the Sutherland amendment caused the defeat of the resolu- .tion. Tho odium of having denied the people the right of a direct vote on senators must rest on Utah's junior senator, although Mr. H Sutherland to appear consistent, voted for the measure M As we' understand the parliamentary juggling, a canvas of the H senate was made by those opposed to the popular election of United H States senators and volunteers were called for some one to lend his H name to the legislative trick which was to outrage Southern senti- M ment and afford an excuse for Southern opposition to the resolution H , No one could be found who would couple his name with the du- B plicity about to be perpetrated until Sutherland of Utah was con- M suited. He was insinuatingly told that he had been an obscure senator except when thrown into the breach in the Ballinger case, and by M attaching his name to the amendment he could gain the distinction M of being talked about and written up. His dosire to be in the pub- lie eye caused him to yield and, for the temporary prominence, he H willingly agreed to be the scapegoat of the senate. He would have voted against the amended resolution, if tho H duplicity of such an act did not carry with it its own obloquy, shame H and reproach. H Sutherland should have voted for Lorimcr to have rounded out BIBBH his own disgrace. |