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Show -1 ROOT FOR PLURALITY SENATORS Chicago Record-Herald. The suggestion which Senator Ilbot' threw out In his elaborate speech op-posing op-posing direct popular election of fed-oral fed-oral senators Is now presented to him In a bill put beforo Cougiess. Mr. Root admits thnt deadlocks over sonator-ships sonator-ships aro bad for legislatures and bad for Congress, and ho thinks that If deadlocks could bo proentod tho sen-tlmont sen-tlmont for popular election would weaken nnd disappear. In ncordanco with this belief ho proposes to amend tho statutes so as to provldo that If no candidate for fedoral sonator ro-eelves ro-eelves a majority beforo March 1 noit preceding tho beglnnlg of a senatorial senator-ial tern "tho person who receives a i plurality of tho votes of tho Joint as-sembly.'n as-sembly.'n majority of nil tho members being present and voting, shnll bo declared de-clared elected, In brief, Mr. Root would dp away with deadlocks by Introducing In-troducing tho principle of plurality senators' This ho thinks far less fad-leal fad-leal than direct election. Slnco wo havo plurality mayors, plurality governors, gover-nors, and dven tho possibility of plurality plu-rality Presidents, why not plurality senators This seems to bo his Idea. |