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 SuN-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 COMM, large portion Of the Constitution to
memory, SOFAS to repeatit ofIhand. It being ques-
ton of merit as to how many pages We could repeat
In this manner; we remember how carefully our
learned toretathers defined and wrote Congress
shall have power DC.
Nowhere does 1t say the Congress The
British people might as well say the 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 used7
INV YORK. July 8. G. D. s.
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. 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, !"
not Congress
ARTICLE l.. SECTION ?. THE actual enumeration
shall be made within three years after the rst
ing of the Congress OF the United States"
SECTION 4. The Congress may at any time by
law make or alter such regulations"
SECTION L. Tho Congress shall assemble at
least once in every year"
SECTION Z. Tho Same shall he law. In Ike
manner as " he had signed 1t, unless the Congress
by their adjournment prevent Its return"
SECTION 8. "Thc Congress shall have power
SECTION o. Shall not be prohibited by the Con
sress"
sEcrIoss without the consent OF tho Con-
grcss"
SECTION 10. -w,,hou. the consen, of tho Con
cress"
SECTION 10. Subject to the revision and control
OF tho Congress"
ARTICLE H., SECTION I. "The whole number of
Senator's and Representatives 70 which the State
may be entitled in the Congress-
SECTION i. THE Congress may determine the
| time
SECTION /. The Congress may by law provide
for the case Of removal"
SECTION 2. THE Congress may BY la1 YES, 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"
as the Congress may from time 10 time orda,n and
| establish"
SECTION ?. Under such equations as the Con
gress shall make"
SEcrIoS2. AT such place or places as the Con
gress may by law have directed"
SEcrIos 3. The Congress shall have power TO
declare the punishment Of treason"
ARTICLE ", SECTION /. The Congress may by
general law prescribe"
SECTION s. New States may be admitted by the
Congress into this Union"
SECTION s, Without the consent OF the Lega-