Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1892 — The Presidential Term of Office. [ARTICLE]

The Presidential Term of Office.

The Committee on Civil Service has reported to the Senate with a favorable recommendation a joint resolution propoping so to amend the Constitution as to make the term of office of the President and Vice President six years instead of four, the former to be ineligible for immediate re-election. The change is to take effect March 4, 1897, which will be the commencement of the term of the President who will be chosen four years from next fall. It is not stated in the dispatches whether a Vice President who succeeds to the Presidency by the death of the incumbent of the office is covered by the provision regarding ineligibility. The amendment would lose some of its efficacy if it permitted a Vice President who had filled the office of President for four or five years to be elected President for the six years following. It is stated that this proposed amendment will have many strong friends in both Houses. It is desirable that it should be submitted to the States so that they may express themselves on the subject.