The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1910-12-22
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Attention has frequently hean
afaNn to fhe ANOMALY q eRf ~ tenn
4 government that tae congress
eieciea iu N0vrmher does aol meet
Hufll December ~ thn fniluNiup
cas- Ia un C4abirs where ga liza
meutarf lnstiiuiiDna pertain If a
ierH ~ MOTE thau wear permitted
% elapss uetveen fhr election ~
representative assembly and install
latinn ia 9af seat 81 power ia Eng.
land the newly chosen parliament
mueiA within four OF five weeks
after the srits II election have gone
forth 10 40 other countries that
| have representative assemblies IL
fhe interval longer than two or three
months, and our own state leeisla-
tnres generally meet % The January
~ February following the November
| bailofins
A. the Washington Herald cor
rectiy remarks. the present system
as a relic Of the tedious and inconye-
uicut met mods 81 travel q century
ego Al the present time, when
members can get To the capital from
| the farihcst ends 81 the country
within five days the delay OF the
meeting Of y new congress for thir-
| teen months after Us election is m
| Fbsnrdity IL Is someil ing worse
! fhau an absurditN. however that a
| party ma iority which has been voted
out of office should remain in prac-
| deal control OF affairs for another
| entire year, and should continue to
| legislate sftor IL has been rcpuoiatej
| at the polls This could happen in
| no country but ours. Unfortunately,
1 ] complete remedy would he impos-
| sthlc without "a constitutional amend
| ment. The term of the outgoing
| congress does not expire until four
1 months after a national election
! The situation IN further complicated
| by IN. fact that the new senator's
| cannot be elected until the state leg
| slatures meet. The nearest date
| following the November baliotin Z
that new congress could convent
| emily and legally assem hle would
| therefore. be March 4
There is no constitutional or other
| impeachment to setting this dry for
| the meeting The constitution, in
deed. does name the first Monday In
| December. but il expressly author
| ICES congress by law to appoint a
different day" A republican house.
out Of partisan considera ton, might
| be averse to expediting the incoming
of n house of opposite political COM
| pIexion, and probably no action OF
| this character could be expected
| from the Cannon Aldrich standpat-
| tcrs
| There is another possible method.
however. whereby the same end
| could be secured The president
might call congress in special scs-
| sion. President Taft did this at the
beginning OF his administration for
| the purpose OF revising the tariff, in
| accordance with the general senti
ment of the country then prevalent.
| Now the recent elections signify
| nothing more clearly than the utter
population by the people of the
downward revision accomplished
al the special session OF 1903 A
president regarding himself as the
| representative of the whole nation.
and as not merely of party. should
be impelled by a sense OF duty to
accept the popular verdict and to
call at the earliest possible day a
congress so manifestiy elected by the
people to do their will. The new
congress could meet on March 4
next Why should not the march
forth OF standpatism be hurried.--
Philadelphia Record.