Evening star., 1938-12-09
Anti-Third Term
Resolution Planned
By Senator Holt
West Vireinion Says He
Will Model Measure
After One of 1928
By ]. A. O'LEARY.

Senator Holt, Democrat OF West
Virginia. announced today on his
return to Washington that he would
introduce at the coming session
of the Senate a resolution opposing
third term for President Roosevelt.
He added that he would use for
his anti-third term resolution the
wording of the resolution passed.
56 to 26, by the Senate on February
10, 1928, opposing third term for
President Coolidge
The West Virginian's statement
comes in the wake of recent declar-
ations by two other Democrats
Senator Guffey of Pennsylvania and
Smathers of New Jersey-in support
of the reelection of President
Roosevelt in 1910. Commenting on
these Endorsements of the President,
Senator Holt said:
If Senator Guffey and Senator
Smathers keep on talking, I won't
have to introduce my resolution. If
Franklin d. Roosevelt had any
third-term ambitions, the best way
to destroy them would be to have
Senator Guf1ey announce it."
Points to Setback.
The West Virginia Senator point
ed to the Democratic setback in
Pennsylvania last month and also
in New Jersey.
He added, however, that his pres
ent intention is to seek roll
coll yoto IN tho roco1,,t;or Tho 900
resolution was adopted at a time
when there was speculation over
whether President Coolidge would
seek another term, and Senator Holt
recalled today that there was a rec
ord vote then in which nearly all of
the Democrats voted for the resolu-
ton.
He said members voting for the
anti-third-term resolution at that
time were Ashurst, Democrat, of Ari-
zona; Barkley, Democrat, of Ken
lucky, now majority leader; Borah,
Republican, of Idaho; Capper, Re-
publican, of Kansas; Frazier, Re-
publican, of North Dakota; Gerry,
Democrat, of Rhode Island Glass,
Democrat, of Virginia; Harrison.
Democrat, of Mississippi; Johnson,
Republican, of California; King,
Democrat, of Utah; La Toilette,
Progressive, of Wisconsin; McKellar.
Democrat, of Tennessee; Nicely,
Democrat, of West Virginia; Nor
ris, Independent, of Nebraska: Pitt
man, Democrat, of Nevada; Shep-
pard, Democrat, of Texas; Ship
stead, Farmer-Laborite, of Mime
sofa; Smith, Democrat, of South
Carolina; Thomas, Democrat, OF
Oklahoma: Tydings, Democrat, of
Maryland; Wagner, Democrat, of
New York, and Wheeler, Democrat,
of Montana.
Members who voted against the
resolution and who are still in the
Senate. Senator Holt said, are:
McNary, Republican, of Oregon and
Walsh, Democrat, of Massachusetts,.
The resolution passed, 56 to 26.
Text of 1928 Resolution.
The 1928 resolution read: RE
solved, That = is the sense of the
Senate that the precedent estab-
lished by Washington and other
Presidents of the United States in
retiring from the presidential Office
after their second term has become,
by universal concurrence, a part
of our republican system of gov
ernment, and that any departure
from this time-honored custom
would be unwise. unpatriotic, and
fraught with peril to our free insti-
tutions."
The Senator added that while
President Roosevelt had not an
nounced he would seek another four
years, members of his official family
had publicly announced they favored
it.
Senator Holt, long at odds with
w. P. A., said he also would offer
a resolution proposing "a real in
vestigation of the Works Progress
Administration"