24. Hernando D. Money, Election of Senators by Direct Vote of the People. Speech of Hon. Hernando D. Money, of Mississippi, in the Senate of the United States, Friday, April 11, 1902 (Washington, DC: n.p., 1902). (15 p.)


Defense of the poll tax and the understanding clause in Mississippi’s constitution of 1890. The speaker argues that questions concerning who is qualified to vote should be left to individual states to decide. (The collection has another copy of this speech in volume 74 [no. 7].)