Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-02-11
LaFollette Resolution De-
claring Against Third
Term Passes
Sc TO 26.
Administration Republicans
Are Overwhelmingly
Defeated

| WASHINGTON Feb. 10 R)-The
senate went on record today, 56 to
/ &c, in favor OF the retirement OF
presidents after their second term. !"
BY this vote the resolution of
Senator LaFollette, republican, Wis
conSin, declaring this precedent eStab-
liShed by Washington and other
presidents had become "a part of our
| republican system OF government was
approved after four days of debate
revolving about it's application to
President Coolidge.
The second paragraph of the reSo-
luton commencing "the observance
of this precedent by the president
was withdrawn by Senator LaFollette
after Senator Fess. republican, Ohio.
had moved to strike it out.
However, an attempt by Senator
Fess to word the resolution to apply
only to second elective terms was
Overwhelmingly rejected, 73 to 5. This
move, which would OBVIOUSLY except
President Coolidge from the scope
OF the resolution, was supported only
by Senators Bingham and Mclean,
Connecticut; Waterman, Colorado,
and Fess and Willis, Ohio, republicans.
Administration republicans mad con-
tended that the paragraph reflected
upon Mr.. Coolidge who, they con-
tended, might still accept sin good
faith" the republican nomination.
Some democrats have assailed the
paragraph by not accepting "in good
faith" the announcement OF the presi-
dent that he did not choose to run.
Senator LaF'ollette, who said he
proposed his resolution becase Charles
D. Hilles, of New York, and "other
powerful factors in the party" were
seeking to draft the president, with
drew the paragraph but, he said, it
was apparent from statements by
his friends here that the president
has not foreclosed his denomination" !"
IT had added that paragraph" ;"
LaFollette explained, ''in all sincerity
because I thought President Coolidge
by his statements had definitely
eliminated himself from the race and
was observing this tradition"
| AS adopted, the resolutions which
does not call for house concurrence,
reads:
1T is the sense of the senate that
the precedent established by Wash
lngton and other presidents of the
United States in retiring from the
presidential office after their second
term has become by universal con-
cllrrence, part of our republican
system of government, and that any
departure from this time-honored
custom would be unwisc, Nnpatriotic,
, and fraught with peril to our free
institutions"
Senator Curtis, of Kansas, the
republican leader and an avowed cam
didate for the republican nomination,
voted with II other republicans, most
| ly from the west, the lone farmer
labor senator, and 81 democrats in
support of the resolution.
Senator Gillette, republican, Massa-
| chllsetts, was one of the group sup
porting the resolution, while Senator
Walsh, democrat, of that state, voted
| against it. The three other democrats
who voted against the resolution with
the bloc OF administration republicans
were Blease, OF South Carolina;
| Ferris, of Michigan, and Ransdell, OF
Louisiana.
Senator's Watson, OF Indiana, and
Willis, of Ohio, other avowed repub-
lican candidates, both voted against
the resolution.
! The vote follows:
For the resolution:
Republicans: Blaine, Borah, Brook
hart, Capper, Couzens, Curtis, Cutting,
Frazier, Gillette, Gooding, Howell,
Johnson, LaFollette, MacNGaster, Nor
ris, Nye, Sackett and Schall-l8.
Democrats: Ashurst, Barkley, Bay
are, Black, Bratton, Broussard, Bruce,
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