Show NO EXTRA MAY BE NECESSARY TO NA-ME NA SENATORS Congress to Pass Measure for forT T Temporary Procedure in Elections L T I IO contemplated at Wash- Wash 1 ii i ington which will be ready read for or re le report leport report re- re port from tho Senate committee on privileges nn and elections election soon will do away with the tho necessity for tor calling a special session of or the Utah legislature to provide for tor the election of or a United States senator accor according to Senator George Jeorge Sutherland who has returned from Crom Washington The Tho question has been re regarded 1 as a l most important one ono in Washington accor according to Senator Sutherland for the reason that thirty thirty- two senators are to lo be elected under tho new seventeenth amen amendment to the constitution and few If an any of or the tILe states have havo as yet legislated to provide for the direct election of senators This number of states represents all politIcal political poUt poUt- ical parties so that no party part fight right Is 10 likely on an any legislation proposed by hi Congress to tSe settle t 00 the ma matter mattei- The question was taken up by the lie Senate committee on privileges ts and an elections of ot which Senator Sutherland Is Is' isa a member and the Utah senator was named on a subcommittee of or five he which was vas appointed to draft a bill designed ned to look after aCter the lie needs of or tIle the various valIous states in electing their senators this year eal A bill of or this lila nature has been heen drafted and will soon bo be considered h h by bytho tho the entire committee on oit on privileges nile arid elections eJections with a view to early carl pres pres- I C fl ta 1 on Senator Sutherland said ald yesterday that the tho main point which Congress had to consider was the constitutional right of ot Congress to specify the matter time and place of ot electing congressmen an and senators senators' an this point in the n in 1 not hv Iv Ihn hn f I. I.- u v of the thc seventeenth amendment ment This constitutional provision gives Congress the rl right ht to lo alter from time line to time limo the tho regulations as to the time Lime place and manner manuel for selecting congressmen congress men and the right rig t to fix tho the time and amI manner of electing senators t Th The clement clement cle ole ment of ot place with reference to the tiie Continued on Oil Page 2 i Column G. G I INO NO EXTRA SESSION I IMAY i MAY BE NECESSARY I TO NAME SENATORS Congress to Pass Measure for forT or T Temporary I Procedure in Elections Ii S1 Continued From P Page ge 1 L 1 1 election of senators was omitted be bc- causo cause of oC tho the f fear tear ar that Congress might In some somo manner Interfere In a state capitol fight by requiring that the I state legislature meet to elect a senator son sen ator at Rt some ome place other than tho lie established os es- es established capital Now ow that the election elec- elec i I tion Uon of senators is no longer the tho province pro ince inco of tho the legislatures Senator Sutherland Sutherland erland and others othel's contend that Con Con- I gross gress has tho the same power to designate I and direct elections of or senators as It has for congressmen The tentative o bill now under consideration consideration consid consid- will propose that until legislatures legislatures legis legis- I of ot tho time various states take specific specific action to comply with the n t relative to the election eJectiOn of senators Ule the stat state laws pcr per per- i taming to the tho election of governors I Ishall ishall shall apply appl for senators Through the passage of or this law la Senator Sutherland I believes that Utah's present problem m will be solved solves without special session 1 of ot the tho legislature or a special lal election eJection I |