[rellimpank]

---Because Senators were originally elected by their state legislatures, they had to be attendant to the wishes of the individual states and could not, as now under the 17th Amendment, respond primarily to pressure from national political parties to conform to the dictates of special interest groups such as public employees labor unions or “green” fanatics.--

--a lot of folks didn't approve of their senator being elected by the railroads either , thus the 17th amendment-----

[webstersII]

“a lot of folks didn’t approve of their senator being elected by the railroads either”

By the railroads? What does that mean?