Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-05-22
ONLY SIX YEARS FOR A PRESIDENT RESOLUTION NOW PENDING IN CONGRESS- WOULD GIVE EXECUTIVE ONE TERM
 
Would Be Beneficial Say Supporters of tie New ea-Reationaries
 May Oppose It.
(By' Sidney Espey)


 Washington, May 21-7A resolution to make @Ae length of service of tha Chief Executive six years and give to a president but one term has been Introduced in u , House by Represen@ tatiye Clayton, chairman of the Con- mittee on the Judiciary. The resolu ton was suggested, the author eN plained when he offered the resOdu- tion, by a declaration made by Pres. iden* Taft in a recent speech when he said that Enesident ought not t2 he permitted to succeed himself.
 This resolution is now pending in committee. It probably will be, Yak en uD for consideration when the resolution of Representative Henry, chairman of the Committee on Rules, to change the date of inauguration from March to the lais't Thursday in April, is considered. It is the pur, rose of Chairman Clayton then 70 offer his resolution as an amend men4 to that of Representative Henry which has been favorably reported from the committee of the Judiciary.
 It is argued by the advocates Of the one term measure that it would take the President directly out Of politics after his election and pre- serve to the office of the Chief Elk ecutive of the country the dignisy and absence of political strife which, it is declared, the framers of the constitution intended for it.
 That the office has been thrown from this high plane is declared to Lave been proved by the developments of the present campaign for The Re- publ'ca nomination. for the presi | dency. Advocates of the pomp and | dignity that they declare should go with the office of the President, point to this embroglio as a strong argu- ment in favor of the six year term without succession.
 | They also deplore the fact Chat a l former President should find it nec- eessawy, in the furtherance of his | political ambition, to help to lower the dignity of the office by indulg~ i ing in a campaign of "mud-Slin2ing as it is termed in the verMacular of l the politician. Such campaigns, | they say, have done much to lower the respect and reverence for the office, and they charge that should this state of affairs continue, the highest office in the gifS of the voters would be brought to the level of the lowest of elective offices.
 Consequently, friends of the move ment are lining up their fCrces in the effort to get the resolution through Congress, declaring it is time that the office fthe President of the United States was free from the ssrife of political activity and restored 10 the high position which the Fathers of the Country intended it should ec- eupy ill the minds of the people. Another phase of the situation, ad- .anced by the supporters of the new legislation, s tha. under present conditions President devotes too much time to the work of strengthen ing his political fences, and conse- aaently neglects, to a great extent the business of the stase with which he is charged.
 In this connection it is pointed oui that the average president spends practically half of his first term 1T 'she endeavor to obtain his re-elec tion for another period and hal scarcely become cognizant with ths workings of the office, before ht I turns his attention to the prospect! Of reelection. In conseqqe i # si' argued, a President sowing two term, really gives only about five years , the entire eight to the business Q yhis office.
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