The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-10
Mr.. Roosevelt's Memory.

Few hot weather communications to
THE SUN have ever surprised us more
than this from an esteemed and intelli-
gent friend and reader:
ITO THE EDITOR OF THE SUS-Str: Please inform
your readers why President ROOSEVELT and some
other public men. when referring TO our national
legislature. constantly say tho Congress-
MANY OF us when boys In Our public schools had
to commit large portion Of the Constitution TO
memory. so as to repeat ofhand. It being aues-
ton OF merit as 10 how many pages We could repeat
In this manner: so We remember how carefully our
learned forefathers defined and wrote Congress
shall have power &c.
Nowhere docs 1t say ne Congress- The
British people might as well say tho Parliament
Congress Is lofty title in ITSELF but tho words
the Congress are not only horrible but they take
away all dignity and character from the greatest
legislative body In the world.
Why Is the term the Congress usedi
NEW YORK. July 8. c. b. 81
We reply that when President RoosE-
WELT uses the form Athe Congress in
addressing the Legislative department
of the Government, or in referring to it,
he shows that his memory has retained
the exact language OF the Constitu-
ton much better than the memory Of
his critic &C. B. S.
Instead Of avoiding the term 'the
Congress, which &C. B. S. finds horrible
and unworthy Of the greatest legisla-
tive body in the world, the learned fore
fathers employed it continually and
intentionally. Instead Of the phrase oc-
curing nowhere in the Constitution, it
appears there, &C. B. SIS" recollection to
the contrary notwithstanding, more than
two dozen times. In comparatively few
places the @the' is omitted. In the great
majority Of cases it is "the Congress. I"
not Congress
ARTICLE l.. SECTION 2. The actual numeration
shall be made within three years after the hrst
ing of the Congress OF the United States"
SECTION 4. The Congress may at any time BY
law make or alter such regulations"
SECTION 4. Tho Congress shall assemble at
leas, once In every year"
SECTION I. Tho same shall be a law. In like
manner as II he had signed It, unless tho Congress
by their adjournment prevent its return"
SECTION 8. ~The Congress shall have power
SECTION O. Shall not DO prohibited by the Con
gress."
SEc1roN9. without the consent OF the Con-
gress."
SECTION 10. without the oonsen. of the Con-
crcss.-
SECTION TO- Subj ect 70 the revision and control
OF the Congress"
ARTICLE H., SECTION I. -The whole number OF
Senator's and Representatives to which the State
may be entitled In the Congress-
time
SECTION I. The Congress may by law provide
for the case Of removal"
SECTION 2. 'The Congress may by la1 vest tho
appointment, of such inferior of,cers"
SECTION 8. "He shall from time to time give
TO the Congress information OF the state of tho
Union"
ARTICLE H., SECTION 1. such inferior courts
as the Congress may from time TO time ordain and
establish"
SECTION .. Under such regulations as the Con
grcss shall make"
SECTION 2. AT such place or places as the Con
gress may by law have directed"
SECTION 3. The Congress shall have pcwe. TO
declare the punishment, OF treason"
ARTICLE w.. SECTION !. The Congress may by
general law prescribe"
SECTION 5. New States may be admitted by the
Congresa into this Un!on.'
SECTION = Without tbs consent Of the Lssls-