Show SENATE BY POPULAR VOTE i Representative Citizens From FromI Thirty States Want Revision Revision Revision Revis Revis- I ion of Present System IOWA TO START MOVEMENT J Delegates to tu Ue Bc ln Se L ion da lIn Fh t t Similar 1 III In histOry of United States Dus Dei Moines la Dec 2 cd ed to 10 to map out MIt a n for t th the hi e elec election ull of United stales States senators by IJ direct vote vole of f the people about i o delegates dele sate gates re representing ni more noie re reUta Uta than thirty rt states Mates will gather Un Des Moines on ott Wednesday c ne a The call for the lie mcc meeting was was ivas Issued I by liy Governor GU Ct Cummins on oui It ly I granted by the lie last legislature Th fhi Tim proposition o was ivas IJ- IJ by no means means popular among the lie Iowa law lav makers malIs When hen Senator L. L W. W Levis Lewi of or Pa Page c county Introduced tJ It It tho ho stand patters or UI Cummins Republicans Re Re- publicans fell on un ill the lie resolution ui n tooth a and 11 1 nail and It passed only b by thu thiu narrowest of C margins Those iShi wIll who favored u the lie meeting I were equa equally opposed lo to o a con j lIonal on Such Su-ch a a. convention they hey argued might ll not nut stop slop with wilh the lie senatorial question but a assail the tha constitution at other points diVOrCe divorce railroad rates and 11 the tle liquor traffic perhaps The flie Cummins Cumulus mon men think tho lie desired desired desir desir- ed amendment can be secured in iii tho hue usual manner manner u by conr congressional submission sub sub- mission lon to the lie states slates for fOI oi legislative mUllen 1 All II loa or Fa II Method hud Inch Each stale state in iii the lie Union was in invited In- In to In send five Ii delegates chosen b by ISy the lie respective l governors JO In Iii sonic some states tates uio no 1 appointments were made malIc however C and anti from others the lie ul quota of ur delc delegates ates will not nut be present as all arc are required lo tu pay lay their heir own expenses Several Se governors governors among among them theft Gon Governors HI llIs of or New NewYork NewYork York YoI and Guild of Massachusetts Massachusetts- notified Governor GO Cummins th that t they hey had no statutory authority to make the lie contemplated appointments While the lie delegates will of or course Jie be Ie expected to speak their own minds 1 It is t thought hou h t a all II will fa favor VOl OHI popular ar senatorial elections and th tho conference will HI le resolve ol e Itself Into a debate concerning tilt the best method of or uig t the ito desi desired red cun constitutional I itt it um 0 Tin Tin- gathering will ivill be bc the lie first over ever lo tu consider such a plan though direct balloting for Cor senator enatt has hus often orten been suggested before and cund was even once In a a. nH message by hy An Andrew rew Jackson tho ho only President who o O Over Ovet l' l openly S the amendment a which will send California n lQ J- J Kans h J lucky Louisiana Lo tt 1 nn Minne l sott sota Montana Missouri Nebraska N New Neui w Jersey my North Carolina Ohio I OI Oregon South Dakota Texas oxa V WashIngton Wash Wash- lh Inton Ington I V AVent l Virginia North Dakota Georgia la Pennsylvania I Utah Virginia an and Wis- Wis 11 on ln ii |