The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-27
The Race for the sixteenth Am end
ment.

The distinguished chairman Of the
Judiciary Committee OF the Senate in
uoduoed on the third day Of the session
two joint resolutions proposing Con-
stitutional Amendments. One Of Mr..
HoAR's proposed amendments relates
TO tho time Of the meeting Of Congress.
The other u intended to sanction the
existing law, drawn by Mr.. HoAR him.
self in 1885 after Voe-President HEN
DRICKs's death, by which the line Of
Presidential succession in case Of death
or disability passes to the members Of
the Cabinet, beginning with the Secre-
tary Of State.
Although the country has lived for
fifteen or sixteen years under M. HoAR's
Presidential Succession law, it now APP
pears that he shares the doubts Of some
eminent ~jurisconsults as 70 the Consti-
tutionality Of that enactment. At least,
the author Of the Inv asks Congress to
prop 1t up now with an amendment TO
the Constitution. Mr.. HoAR not only
introduced the joint resolution In ques-
ton at the beginning of the session,
but on Saturday, as chairman Of the
Judiciary Committee, he reported it
favorubly to the Senate. II now has the
first place in the long programme Of
proposed alterations of the Constitu-
ton. If it should pass the Senate and
House, and be approved by the Presi-
dent. and subsequently be ratified by
the Legislatures of three-fourths of the
States, it would go into the Constitution
as the Sixteenth Amendment.
II is thirty-two years since the last
change was made in the Constitution Of
the United States. The number Of
statesmen now standing behind Mr..
HoAR with Constitutional Amendments
Of their w is surprisingly large. Con-
gress has been in session only thirty
resolutions and bills proposing Consti-
%tutional Amendments Of one sort or
another have been introduced and re-
ferred to the respective Judiciary Com
mittees Of the Senate and the House.
As usual, the House is well ahead In this
industry. 1t has originated about four
Constitutional Amendments for every
one started in the Senate.
Among the candidates for the post OF
Sixteenth Amendment nre the follow
ing measures. thus grouped:
Election Of Senators by popular vote. ..........u
Federal regulation Of corporstions and oopAt-
nerships.
Inauguration Dag In April ......
TAXING power OF Congress enlarged or re-
stncted.
Inoome tai SANCTIONED
Woman sunrsGe }
Anarchy . high ortne 2
Fifteenth kmenensns repealed ................
freasou
Poly samis,s disqualified for Congress .........
Congress 10 regulate marriage aud divorce .....
Congress 10 regulate factory hours ............
No Federal or state aid 70 s.ctAnhh Institutions. 1
Upiform qualifications Of electors IN ell states. . l
AsssuiuinE high Federal omosrs q special crime /
Limited terms foI supreme Cour justices ....... 1
Federal jurisdiction over use Of water .........
Ga year Presidential term ......... /
This exhibit shows the variety and
extent OF the oontemporaneous willing
ness 20 tinker the Constitution. With
the least encouragement afforded by
the success Of any % Of the schemes
nov pending at Washington, the shower
would become a deluge.
Ia II well 20 begin l. there any real
need % making a beginning even AZ the
point proposed by senator HOARg