The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-07-12
From the New York Su

FROM the NEW iUIk OuHs
~ EW hot weather communications
V to the Sun have ever surprised
us more than this from an es-
teemed and intelligent friend and reader:
ITO the Editor of the Sun-Sir: Please
inform your readers why President Roose-
welt and some other public men, when
referring to our national legislature, con-
stantly say the Congress-
Many of us boys in our public schools
had to commit a large portion of the
constitution to memory, so as to repeat
1t offhand 1t being a question Of merit
as to 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 does it say the Congress-
The British people might as well say
the Parliament
Congress Is a lofty title In itself, but
the words the Congress, are not only
horrible, but they take away all dignity
and character from the greatest legis-
lative body in the world.
''Why is the term the Congress used?
New York, July s. c. B. S."
We reply that when President Roose-
welt uses the form 1.-The Congress- in adj
dressing the legislative department of the
government, or in referring to it, he
shows that his memory has retained the
exact language of the constitution much
better than the memory of his critic,
&C b. 81
Instead of avoiding the term "the Con-
gress," which &C b. S." finds horrible
and unworthy of the greatest legislative
hoI iy,t h. ri rho fo4 H..
ers employed it continually and intention
ally. Instead of the phrase occurring
nowhere in the constitution, 1t appears
there, &C. B. SIS recollection to the con-
trary notwithstanding, more than two
dozen times. In comparatively few places
the the Is omitted. In the great ma
jority of cases 1t is "the Congress-" not
Congress:
Article /, Section 2. 1.-THE actual EMU
meration shall be made within three years
after the first meeting of the Congress
of the United States"
Section 4. "The Congress may at any
time by law make or alter such regula-
tons"
Section 40. 1.-The Congress shall assem-
BILE at least once In every year."
Section L 1.-THE same shall be a law, in
like manner as If he had signed it, unless
the Congress by their adjournment pre-
vent its return"
Section s. THE Congress shall have
power
Section .. 'shall not be prohibited by
the Congress.
Section o. without the consent of the
Congress.
Section 10. without the consent of the
Congress"
Article 2, Section 1. 1.-THE whole num-
Der of senators and representatives to
which the state may be entitled in the
Congress"
Section l. 1.-THE Congress may deter
mine the time"
Section 1. 1.-The Congress may by law
provite for the case of removal"
Section 3. 1.-THE Congress may by law
vest the appointment of such inferior Of
ficers."
Section 3. HE shall from time to time
give 10 the Congress information of the
state of the Union
Article 8, Section l. Such Inferior courts
as the Congress may from time to time
ordain and establish
section q Under such regulations as
the Congress shall make"
Section 2. AT such place or places as
the Congress may by law have directed
Section g. ''The Congress shall have
power to declare the punishment of trea-
SON."
Article 4, Section l. 1.-The Congress may
by general law prescribe"
Section 8. New states may be admit
ted by the Congress into this Union"
Section 8. without the consent of the
legislatures of the states concerned az
well as Of the Congress"