The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1913-02-04
THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENT GETS ONE MA
JORITY IN SENATE.
NOT ONE EXEMPTION MADE
As Passed the Amendment Would
Bar Wilson, Taft and Roosevelt
From Again Seeking Presidency.
Goes to House for Action.


Bar Wilson, Taft and Roosevelt
From Again Seeking Presidency.
Goes to House for Action.
WASHINGTON.-A constitutional
amendment which would restrict the
president and vice president of the
United States to a single term of six
years and would bar Woodrow Will
son, Theodore Roosevelt and VIM. H.
Taft from again seeking election was
approved by the senate today by the
narrow margin of one vote.
After three days fight, in which
the progressives Joined with many
republicans in opposing the restricted
presidential term, the senate adopt
ed the original Works resolution by a
vote of 81 to 28.
The language which it is proposed
to insert in the constitution in place
of the first paragraph of article 2
is as follows:
THE executive power shall be vest
of America. The term of president
shall be six years, and no person who
has held the office by election, or dis
charged its powers or duties, or act
ed as president under the legislation
and laws made in pursuance thereof,
shall be eligible to hold again the
afH htr 81
gether with vice-president chosen
for the same term, shall be elected
as follows"
Now Goes to the House.
The resolution proposing the
amendment goes to the house for its
approval. If ratified by two-thirds
vote it will be submitted to the legis-
lators of the states and will become
effective when three-fourths of the
forty-eight states approve it.
The adoption of the resolution
came at the close of a three-day fight,
in which repeated attempts were
made so to change it that it would
not affect past presidents or the pres
ident in the office when it may finally
be ratified by the states. All these
efforts failed.
The votes taken today again DEM
onstrated that the senate did not care
to exempt any person from the opera
ton of the singIe-term provision. An
amendment by Senator Hitchcock
that would have exempted past pres
idents and made the new provision
take effect March 4, 1917, was voted
down AZ to 81, and an amendment
by Senator Sutherland to exempt the
president in Office when the constitu-
tional amendment may be ratified
was defeated SO to 90.
How the Senators Voted.
Senators who supported the single
term resolution on its final project
were:
emocrats-Ashurst, Bankhead,
Bryan, Chamberlain, Chiffon, Clarke
of Arkansas, Fletcher, Gardner,
Hitchcock, Johnson, Johnston of Ala
bama, Kavanaugh, Kern, Newlands,
Overman, Owen, Paynter, Percy, Per-
ky, Pomerent, Simmons, Smith of Ar
iona, Smith of Georgia, Smith of
Maryland, Swanson, Thomas, Thorn
ton and Williams.
-Brandegee, Brown,
Burnham, Burton, Catron, Clark of
Wyoming, Cummins, Dillingham;,
Dupont, Gamble, Guggenheim, Nc
Cumber, Nelson, Penrose, Perkins,
Smoot, Sutherland, Wetmore and
Works.
Against the resolution:
Republicans Borah, Bourne,
Bradley, Bristow, Curtis, Gallinger,
Jackson, Jones, Kenyon, La Toilette,
Lippitt Lodge, Mclean, oliver, Page,
Richardson, Sanders, Stephenson and
Townsend.
Progressives-Clapp, Dixon and
Poindexter.
Democrat-Shively
An amendment by Senator Owen of
Oklahoma to provide for the election
of the president and vice president by
popular vote instead of by states was
defeated 50 to 80. Senator Smith
of Georgia was among those voting
against it. Senator Bacon was in the
chair as presiding officer of the SEN
ate and did not vote