The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1913-02-06
One TERM
FOR PRESIDENT

Washington, Feb. I.--"The execu-
tive power shall be vesteala Presi.
dent of the United States of Americas
The Term of office of the President
shall be six years, and no person who
has held the office 10y election, or dis
fcharged its powers or duties, or acted
as President under the Constitution
and laws made in pursuance; thereof
shall be eligible to again hold the
office by election
By a vote of AZ TO %, or one more
cnlv than the requisite two-thirds vote
the Senate this afternoon adopted the
Works resolution proposing to the
States the foregoing amendment to the
Constitution for ratification. The reso-
luton must now go to the Houses,
where two-thirds vote will be neces-s
sary TO adopt ii in that body. 8
The resolution will then enter upon
the longest stage of its journey toward
its incorporation as part Ofthe organ
ic law. The Legislatures OF three
fourths of the STATES must give their
approval 10 the resolution and not UNI
til action by So States has been Off
cially reported and certified to Secre-
tary Of State will the amendment be-
come operative.
The friends of the proposition believe
all this will have been complied with
before the expiration OF the term of
President Wilson. There has been lit
tie discussion of the subject in the
States upon which anything like an
accurate estimate of public opinion
may be based. Senators voted on this
question as follows:
For the siX-year term and ineligi
biliiy for reelection:
Observation-Disclosures, Bankhead
BRYAN, Chamberlain, Chiffon, Clarke,
Of Arkansas, Fletcher, Gardner, Hitch
cock, Johnson Of Maine, Johnston OF
Alabama, Kavanaugh, Kern, New
lands, Overman, Owen, Paynter, Per-
cy, Perky, Pomerene, Simmons, Smith
oflArizona, Smith of Georgia, Smith of
Maryland, Swanson, Thomas, Thorn
ton, Williams-2s.
Observation-Disclosures, Brown
Burnham, Burton, CLARK Of Wyoming,
Cummins, Dillingham;, Dupont. Gam
BILE, Guggenheim, McCumber, Nelson,
Penrose, Perkins Smoot, Sutherland
Wetmore, Works-l9.
! Senator Shively was the only Demo
crat TO vote against the proposed
amendment.
Republicans who voted in the mega
tive were: Borah, Bourne, Bradley.
Bristow, Clapp, Curtis. Dixon, Gal
linger, Jackson, Jones, Kenyon, La
Toilette, Lippett, Lodge, Mclean,
Oliver, Page, Poindexter, Richardson,
Sanders, Stephenson, Townsend--22.
! Just how the next House will receive
this proposed change III legislation
cannot be foretold. The vote shows
that it has been treated as a political
Question by Senator'S. Some of the
most influential ,Republican Senators
favored it and in all probability the
feeling in the Senate that the time has
come when some limitation must be
put on possible ambitions Of men will
move the House to adopt the resolution.
Today, as on yesterday, the Senate re-
jected every proposition looking to-
ward change in the wording of the,
amendment as reported from the COM
mittee. Senator Hitchcock amend
ment, which was intended 10 exempt
Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson from the
Operations of the amendment, was re-
|jected by vote of A. to -. Senator
Cummins, excepting only Washing
ton, declared that the services Of every
President would have been better for
the country had he only one term.