Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-17
JERSEY MEMBERS
DEFEAT CHANGE IN
INAUGURATION DAY
congressman LoudensIager and
Kinkead Vote Against Bill
Lost by One Vote.
Especial to the Newark Star

WASHINGTON, May fz.-By the
small margin of only one vote the
Joint resolution, favorably reported by
the committee on Judiciary. OF which
Representative r.. Wayne Parker, Of
Newark, Is the chairman, to change
the date of the Inauguration from
March 4 TO the last Thursday in April,
was lost yesterday afternoon when 1t
was taken up for consideration at the
request of Mr.. Parker. Had the votes
of two Jersey congressman, who voted
against the resolution. been recorded
in the affirmative instead of the mega
tive, the resolution would have been
adopted. These two congressman were
Representative kinkead, of Jersey
City, and Representative Loudenslager,
Of Paulsboro. =
The vote on the resolution was 139
ayes and 20 pays, vote OF, two-thirds
being. required for its adoption. Mr..
Parker had previously arranged with
Speaker Cannon to take up the reso-
luton, and he was sanguine that there
would be sufficient votes to pass it W
under, the requirement of two-thirds.
Twenty minutes time for the debate
was allotted to the Republicans and
the same period to the Democrats for
the discussion Of the resolution.
Parker Explains Resolution.
In opening the debate Mr.. Parker
explained briefly that the purpose of
the resolution was to provide for the
extension of the terms of the Presi-
dent, vice-president, senators and con-
or1r.,,,a,a tp tho loot Th,,rcdov ne n,,iI
and that subsequently such terms shall
begin and end on that day. 1t was
also the purpose of the resolution to
provide by law for the danger of the
death of the President-elect and vice.
president-elect before the beginning Of
their terms of office, as we'll as in the
event of no election of these officers.
Incidentally, the passage of the res
olution by Congress would have pro-
vided for the inaugural parade being
held at a time When the weather would
have been better than on the 4th of
March. 1t was stated in opposition to
the resolution that it's trainers sought
to pass something that would be for
the benefit Of the hotels and saloon
keepers of the city. This idea was re-
futed, however, by Mr.. Moon, Of Penn
sylvania, who argued that the hotel
men reaped a larger harvest from the
visitors when the day was inclement
than they would il the weather was
more favorable.
Much interest was displayed not only
in the discussion of the resolution, but
In the voting. The first vote, when the
congressman stood and We're counted
by Speaker Cannon. gave 102 ayes and
81 nays. The roll-call a " a bare ma
jority of one vote against 1t. Shortly
after the vote had been sew
eral congressman, known to have been
favorable to the passage of the reso-
luton, made their appearance on the
floor of the House, but the vote had
been announced, and the fate of the
proposed change Of the, date of the
inauguration was fixed for at least two
years.
Census Returns Very Slow.
When f. Dan Durand, director of the
census, was seen yesterday at the cen
sus bureau, he stated that the returns
were coming in slowly and that 1t was
hardly likely that any official an
nouncement of population of even the
larger cities would be made under four
weeks.
Mr.. Durand expressed himself as
we'll pleased with the work of the
enumerators throughout the State of
New Jersey. and said that they COM
pared favorably with the men In any
of the States. There are a number of
special agents still at work in the State
collecting statistics relative to manu-
features.
Representatives of the State Council
of New Jersey of the Junior Order OF
United American Mechanics are here
for two days from home. Those In the
party are Everett Gray, of Jersey CITY.
state councillor; w. b. LaRue. of
Bound Brook, state vice-councilior; w.
IL. Miers. of Trenton. State council Sec
retary. and the Rev. DIR. ]. Morgan Reed,
president of Pennington Seminary, State
council treasurer. While here these
have had the aid Of Joseph M. Thomp-
son. of Ocean county. former State
councillor. and a conference was held
with some of the prominent men of the
organization of the District of Column
bia.