The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1912-06-07
WORKS AMENDMENT ALREADY
APPROVED BY SENATE COM.
MITTEE ON JUDICIARY.
WILL BE 4, 5, 6, OR Z YRS.
House Will Sponsor important
Constitutional Change
House Will Pass

Washington, June 1. - Senator
Works of California, in mgr a
little more than a year, probably is tC
enjoy the distinction of having his
name attached to and amendment
which will be proposed 10 the consti
tuition extending the term of the pres
ident and providing that no president
may serve a second term. Sentiment
in both houses of congress seems to
be very strongly in favor of this
change in the organic law and the
Works amendment came along just in
time to express a popular demand
which has existed for many years, but
which has received much impetus dur
ing the past few months.
The decision of the senate commit
tee on judiciary to report favorably
the Works joint resolution did not
or to the country. The committee ap-
pears to be unanimous on the question
of forbidding a president to serve a
second term, but there are minor diff
%ferences of opinion as to whether the
term is to be four, five, six or seven
years. This detail will not defeat the
proposition in either house, it Is be-
lieved. Because of the suggestion
made by a good many members of
both houses that the proposed amend
ment has received it's present impor.
lance through the candidacy of Colonel
Roosevelt for the presidential nominal
ton this year, n hint has been given
that the passage of the resolution
through the senate at this time will
be opposed by some of the progress
i've senators who favor the Roosevelt
candidacy. If that opposition should
develop, the resolution cannot be
passed at the present session, but
after the close of the presidential cam
paign, no matter what may be done by
the republicans at the Chicago con-
vention, it is believed that the resolu-
ton will come up in the senate and be-
accepted by the necessary two-thirds
vote. In the house it's passage is be-
lieved to be certain.
There is some likelihood that the
house may vote on the resolution at
this session, for the substance of the
Works proposition is o pending be-
fore the judiciary committee of that
body. and Representative Clayton Of
Alabama, it's chairman, a y he is sure
there will be no serious opposition to
it, either in committee or on the floor.
The outlook Is therefore rather prom
Using for the submission of the pro-
posed amendment to the several state
legislatures, and it's adoption by three
fourths of them before the presidential
campaign of 1916.
Washington, d. G. - The issue
raised by the action of the senate
in putting into the iron and steel tar
if revision bill a proposition for re-
pealing the Canadian reciprocity act,
and replacing the free paper clause
of that act, as it applies to Canada,
with a uniform duty of 50 a ton on
print paper is causing a realignment
of the parties on the tariff in the sem
ate, and troubles for the democratic
majority in the house. 1t is uncertain
what the house will do with this fea-
,ure of the bill, as it passed the SEN
ate, but there are democrats and re-
publicans who objected to the reciproc-
ity scheme who welcome the oppor-
tunity to recall it.
The situation as to the reciprocity
question was enlivened in the house
with a running debate as to the origin
and responsibility for the matter, and
also by the presentation in the house,
by Representative Stevenson of Min
nesota, of a large petition, signed by
81, 900 people in Minnesota, asking that
the reciprocity law, as 1t was placed on
the statute books applying to Canada,
be repealed. This petition was sent to
Washington several days ago by P. V.
Collins Of Minneapolis and other resi-
dents of Minnesota, but it was not uti-
lized in the senate.
The repeal Of the Canadian reciproc.
ity act will be offered as an amend
ment to each tariff revision bill
brought up in the senate, according
to a plan announced by Senator Gron-
ma, of North Dakota. Mr.. Gronna, who
contends that the reciprocity bill is in
iquitous and that 1t was passed by
the democratic party, assisted by
standpat republican senator's" said he
purposed to give those who voted for
1t an opportunity to purge them
selves" and to give the president the
same opportunity.
Another attack OF the beef trust
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