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CHICAGO
DAILY
TRIBUNE:
Friday, January 19, 1951
Part 1- - Page 12 H
INDIANANS ASK
2 TERM.LIMIT
FOR PRESIDENT
12 Democrats Join in
Senate Action
Indianapolis, Jan. 18 [Special]
-Twelve Democrats joined the
Republican majority in the 87th
Indiana general assembly today to
whisk thru a senate resolution
limiting the President to two
terms.
After a 30 minute debate, the
vote showed 38 to 11 in favor of
amending the United States Con-
stitution.
Senate Minority Leader Leo
Stemle [D., Jasper] sought to
amend the resolution to include a
stipulation that no Presidential
candidate could run more than
twice.
Hits at Dewey
Stemle said his amendment
would save Wild Bill' Jenner
and Juke Box' Capehart the em-
barrassment of going to the next
national convention to support a
man who undoubtedly will again
be a candidate." The Jasper sen-
ator read a Chicago Tribune edi-
torial criticizing Gov. Dewey's pro-
posed civil defense bill in the New
York legislature, and shouted,
" God help us if he should ever be-
come President."
Sen. Milford E. Anness [R.,
Metamora] objected that Stemle
s taking the senate's time for a
personal attack on Gov. Dewey.
The gallerites, including several
high school classes, got a lesson
in history as the senators de-
bated. Anness, for nstance,
pointed out that Henry Clay and
William J. Bryan had been Presi-
dential candidates three times.
The name of four time Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt also
was brought in. Stemle had com-
plained the limitation was a direct
rebuke of the commander in chief
in time of distress, and Sen. Har-
old W. Handley [R., Laporte]
leaped to his feet to say:
Who the hell got us onto the
brink of national disaster-tha
four termer Roosevelt! Now it's
too, late.
Ruled Out of Order
Gov. John Watkins [Bloomfield]
the senate presiding officer, finally
ruled Stemle's amendment out of
order.
Just before the roll call, Sen.
Walter F. Kelly, an Indianapolis
physician and a Democrat, rose to
remark that as a doctor he
thought it "a very wrong thing
to condemn a man to more than
two terms."
The house earlier passed a sim-
ilar resolution limiting the Presi-
dential term in office, but all
Democrats voted against it.