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Show THE PEOPLE MAY SELEGTSENATDRS AFTER DEADLOCK OF MORE THAN A YEAR, HOUSE FINALLY FINAL-LY TAKES ACTION. Bill Providing for the Direct Election of United States Senators Passed and is Now Practically Ready for Submission to the People. Washington. After a deadlock of almost a year, the house on Monday took final action on the bill providing for the election of United States senators sen-ators by a direct vote of the people and the bill is now practically ready for submission to the states for ratification. ratifi-cation. The Bristow amendment, which was the cause of the deadlock, reserves to the federal government supervision of the time, manner and place of holding senatorial elections. The final vote on the amendment was 37 to 39. Previous to this vote the house had defeated the Bartlett amendment which precipitated the debate. The latter amendment proposed that the house should concur in the senate amendment, with the proviso that the federal government should not undertake under-take to assert the .qualifications of electors for senators in the states and the general government, by force of arms or otherwise, must not interfere with elections in the several states. The Bartlett amendment was defeated defeat-ed by a vote of 1S9 to 89. |