| Virginia. General Assembly. Senate - 1914 - 1080 pages
...of the said Treasurer for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1913, Xo. 228 ; an act to provide for the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people in accordance with the amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Xo. 351; an act to amend... | |
| Virginia. General Assembly. Senate - 1914 - 1086 pages
...of the said Treasurer for the fiscal year ending September 80, 1913, No. 228; an act to provide for the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people in accordance with the amendments to the Constitution of the United States, No. 351 ; an act to amend... | |
| Homer H. Cooper - 1914 - 300 pages
...with a check on their representatives through the initiative, the referendum, and the recall, and by the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. There can be no question as to the right of the people to adopt either system, for we are living under... | |
| Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - 1914 - 1286 pages
...calendar, read at length a second time and ordered to be engrossed. Xo. 351. House bill to provide for the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people in accordance with the amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Xo. 226. House bill to... | |
| George Henry Tinkham - 1915 - 404 pages
...term. His successor was Stephen F. White, the author of the resolution requesting Congress to authorize the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people. As the end of the term of Senator Farley drew near in 1885, there was a cry ringing all over the state,... | |
| Ernest William Winkler - 1916 - 716 pages
...has discharged the onerous duties devolved upon him as chairman of said committee. [19] That we favor the election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people. [20] That we look with horror upon the tendency of some of the people to adopt the wild vagaries advocated... | |
| Charles Morris - 1916 - 600 pages
...thirty-eight States in all. It will stand as the XVI amendment. Another amendment, the XVII, providing for the election of United States Senators by a direct vote of the people, passed in 1912, was finally ratified by the vote of Connecticut, April 18, 1913. 831. Discovery of... | |
| Lucian Lamar Knight - 1917 - 672 pages
...several powers to have a Constitutional amendment submitted as early as possible, providing for an election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people of the several states. As heretofore noted in these pages, an amendment to the state constitution was... | |
| 1917 - 602 pages
...conservation of the state's natural resources, income tax, 2-cent fare, initiative and referendum, election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people, and all laws to improve the conditions of the working men, women and rhildren. Offered the original... | |
| 1918 - 672 pages
...successful conclusion, and the seventeenth amendment to the United States Constitution, providing for election of United States senators by a direct vote of the people, is exactly as he wrote it. He introduced the amendment in the present form April 6, 1912, and it was... | |
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