Mr. BUCKALEW. I said I proposed to call up a bill with this direct object in connection with these proposed changes relating to the Presidential election. I say then, sir, you gain one valuable month of time at every short session by meeting here early in the month of November, as we are obliged to adjourn on the 3d of March; we obtain one more month of invaluable time for the transaction of public business. And in the years of long sessions by beginning one month earlier you will be pushed into the summer months much less than you are at Present. Instead of adjourning in June or.you can adjourn a month or 2 sooner. I consider this reform in connection with Presidential elections to be very import ant, and one which ought to be adopted. I speak of it now for the reason that it is connected with the general question, which the Senfrom Ohio has introduced before us, the choosing of Presidents of the U.S. As to this proposition for limiting the eligi bility of particular persons to the office of POTUS, I must say that I do not think it near so important as he does. I think that those clauses in the Constitution limiting the eligibility of particular persons to the office of President ic of Senator and of RePresentative in Congress are unimportant. that too much importance was attached to them in the Convention which formed the Constition of the U.S.; that in practice they have been of very little value. It is true that by one of these clauses Albert Gallatin was prevented from taking a seat in the Senate o the U.S. e was selected a Senfrom Pennsylvania and sent to this Senate, but was, after debate, excluded from his seat here as a rePresentative of my State by reason of one of those limitations in the Constitution connected with the office of Senator. In other instances similar limitations in regard to membership in the HoRep have been disre arded. I believe both Mr. Randolph and Mr. Clay, 2 of the most eminent men of our country, took their seats in the HoRep in disregard of one of those limitations; at least the fact has been so represented. I know no good which those limitations have ever secured, I know no practical effect which they have ever had of a useful character, and the same remark will apply to limitations upon eligibility to the Presidential office. I do not think that it is important that we should attempt to limit the people of the U.S. in their freedom of choice. I do not think that the adoption of such policy is wise. I do not think the adoption of a proposition in conformity with it and to apply it will have any very considerable effect in F.the public interests. However, sir, am not going into that question at this time.