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:
TO 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 the Congress.
Many OF US when boys In our public schools had
to commit a large portion OF the Constitution to
memory, so as TO repeat ON and, II being ques
tion OF meri. as to how many pages could repeat
In this manner: we remember how carefully our
learned forefathers defined and wrote Congress
shall have power, &c.
Nowhere does 1t say the Congress- The
British people might as well say the Parliament
Congress Is q lofty title In Itself. but the 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 used!
NEW YORK, July s. c.. BS.'
We reply that when President RoosE-
WELT uses the form "the 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. g" recollection to
the contrary notwithstanding, more than
two dozen times. In comparatively few
places the 4the' is omitted. In the great
majority Of cases it is "the Congress, :"
not Congress:
ARTICLE l., SEcTIoS 2. The actual enumeration
shall be made within three years after the mrs, meet
ing OF the Congress OF the United States"
SECTION 4. The Congress may at any time by
law make or alter such regulations"
SECTION 1. The Congress shall assemble at
least once In every year"
SECTION I. THE same shall be a law, In like
manner as II he had signed 1t, unless the Congress
by their adjournment prevent lis return"
SECTION 8, -The Congress shall have power"
SECTION Q. Shall not be prohibited by the Con.
gress.-
SECTION 0, "wlthou, the consent OF the Con-
gress."
SECTION 10. without the consent OF the Con-
gress."
SECTION 10. Subject to the revision and control
OF the Congress"
ARTICLE H., SECTION I, The whole number OF
Senators and Representatives to which the State
may he entitled In the Congress"
SECTION l. Tho Congress may determine the
time
SECTION l. The Congress may by hw provide
for the case OF removal"
SECTION :, The Congress may by law vest the
appointment OF such inferior ofncers."
SECTION 5. He shall from time to time give
TO the Congress information OF the state Of the
Union"
ARTICLE H.. SECTION l. Such inferior courts
as the Congress may from time to time ordain and
establish"
SECTION ?. Under such regulations as the Con.
greSs shall make"
SECTION ?. AT such place or places as the Con-
gress may by law have directed"
SECTION 8. The Congress shall have power 10
declare the punishment of treason"
ARTICLE ", SECTION /. The Congress may hy
general law prescribe"
SECTION s. New States may be admitted by the
Congress i1to this Union"
SECTION 8. without the consent OF the Legs.