SENATE ADOPTS
ONE TERM PLAN
Limits President to Six Years
in While House.
CARRIES BY HARROW MARGIN
Now Goes to the House and if Ratified
There Will Be Submitted to
State Legislatures.
Washington, Feb. 1.—A constitu
tional amendment which would re
strict the president of the United
States to a single term of six years
and would bar Woodrow Wilson, Theo
dore Roosevelt and William H. Taft
from seeking election was approved
by the senate by the narrow margin
of one vote.
After a three-day fight, in which
Progressives joined with many Re
publicans in opposing the restricted
presidential term, the senate adopted
the original Works resolution by a
vote of 47 to 23.
The resolution proposing the consti
tutional amendment now goes to the
house. If ratified«there by a two
thirds vote it will be submitted to the
legislatures of the states and will be
come effective when three-fourths of
the forty-eight states of the Union
have officially approved it.
An amendment by Senator Hitch
cock, which would have exempted past
presidents and made the new provi
sion toke effect March 4, 1917, was
voted down 42 to 27, and an amend
ment by Senator Sutherland to ex
empt the president in office when the
constitutional amendment may Anally
be ratified was defeated 38 to 29.
NATIONALISTS WIN ELECTION
Ulster Shewn to Be About Equally
Divided on Heme Rule.
Londonderry, Feb. 1.—The official
count Allowed the Nationalists carried
the*Londonderry'election by 57 vote*.
D. C. Hogg, Nationalist, polled \W
votes against 2,S42 for Colonel Pnek
soham, Unionist.
This fives the Nationalists seven
teen votes in Ulster againet sixteen
held by the Unionist®, and prov^.
Ulster ia not overwhelmingly against
home rule.
