The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-03-11
savings BANK
BILL Will PASS
Inauguration Day Will Be
Changed to April Day.
Woman Promotes Temple in Hon.
or Of Father Of His Coun-
try at Washington.

washington, ~. ", Mmch o'is -
now expected that one OF the most
important of bills, that relating to
the posal savings bank, will become
law duning the present month.
There has been considerable opposit-
ion to the bin mainly from Demo-
cratic and insurgent sources, Many
amendments have been presented and
some of them accepted. Senator Root
of New York, in advocacy of the bill,
has made the most forcible speech
of his Senatorial career. 1t Is I'M
derstood that he voices the views OF
the President. 1t Is expected that
the bin will add greatly to the
strength of the financial situation in
this country and the fact THAT 1t
has long been in use in conservative
foreign countries will recommend 1t
to redlecting people I'm America.
IL is thought also that the bill
fixing the last Thrsuday in April for
a new inaugural day, will be adopt
ed. Changing hte date for the inaugu-
ration of a president from the 4th OF
March to the later date involves am
amendment TO the Constitution I'd the
United States and will therefore have
TO receive a two-thirds vote of Con-
gress aud majority vote of three
fourths of the forty-s six states through
their legislatures, before lit can be-
come a law. The change in date is
OF tho. greatest Importance, for the
weather on March 4th Is sehdo1n
pleasant, and occasionally, as on the
day of President Grants second in
auguration and last 4Eh of March,
it lis bitterly cold and tempeStuous.
The National Capitol is rapidly grow
Ing i'm improvements and accomoda-
tions for visitors and also in &C
feasibility to all parts Of the country,
and the travel ito the city for the quad
rennial inaugural event is steadily
increasing in volume. 1t becomes OF
Importance, not so much to the cAl-
ems of Washington, most OF whom
have at least bed and board, but 10
the two or three hundred thousand
visitors who came here to WITNESS
the imposing ceremonies and parade
attendant upon che inauguration of
the President ELECT.
Thirty or forty years ago there
was serious consideration OF pro-
ject to remove the national capital
farther west, or nearer the geogra-
phical center. This project or dream
has long since been abandoned Moth
ing but a disruption of the country
or a revolutionary upheavel can be
able to fix the capital ELSEWHERE. and
in such an event There would he more
than one, and perhaps more than half
a dozen capitals in the Ddsunited
States Distance Is no longer a geogra
phical question, but a question of time
and Washington Is quite as access
ible by steam, electricity and gaso-
line, to say nothing of the areoplane
ais any other locality in the Union.
The capital is becoming more and
mors firmly rooted by millions spent
for marble and granite offices in
which the stupendous work of the
nation is transacted, A bill is now
under consideration, in the Senate
for the appropriation OF twenty mill
ION dollars to be raised by: 2 per
cent. bonds for the erection of need
ed government offices. Al present che
government is paying from ten TO
seventeen per cent annually on the
value of interior rented buildings
necessary for desk and file rooms for
the thousands of government employees
who make their homes here. That to
pay ten or seventeen per cent for
poor building when the government
can get the better building for per
cent is not business like, may be dem
onsrrated to child
The whole country by this time
must have heard OF a somewhaE
unique undertaking, the building OF
a memorial temple in Washington in
honor of the Father of his Country.
. The undertaking is unique only In
the fact that a woman, Mrs. Dlmmick.
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