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Show Efforts to Amend the Constitute cf the D. A. R. Results in Several ftlcs. was then passed by a vote of 443 to 68. j It reads: v i "No person shall hold office more than two terms successively, and no one shall be eligible to hold office in the national society until she has been a member of I the national society two years, except the president-general, who shall be eligible eli-gible to this office for two consecutive terms, regardless of her previous services ser-vices in other offices on the national board." Then the fighting began anew. A j number of delegates claimed that the amendment was subject to misconstruction misconstruc-tion and that it establiebed a dangerous precedent, WASHINGTON, Feb. -24. The first skirmish In the campaign for president-general president-general began at the outset 6f the day's -session of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Immediately after the conclusion of routine rou-tine business the proposed amendments to the constitution were taken up. The first amendment proposed was that of Mrs. katherine Wolcott Verplanck, the State regent of New York, to add to article ar-ticle 4, section 1, the words "except the president-general, who shall not hold the same office for more than two terms successively." This amendment was designed to make Mrs. Fairbanks, the present president-general, ineligible for re-election. Its acceptance was moved by Miss Miller Mil-ler of the District of Columbia and seconded sec-onded by Mrs. Murphy of Cincinnati. Mrs. Weed tjf Montana wanted the language lan-guage of the amendment made clearer, and moved to amend the amendment by making the latter read: "Except the president-general, who shall be eligible for this office for two terms, regardless of her previous service.". ser-vice.". This move evoked loud applause.. At thl point Mrs. Donald McLean of Jvew York, who has been a conspicuous figure in the. fight over the president-generalship, was recognized. , "I desire to go on record," she de-j ' clared, "that I do not intend to oppose the original amendment." j The amendment to the amendment was adopted. The original amendment ef Mrs. Verplanck. as amended by Mrs. Weed and .a subsequent amendment. |