The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-27
BY the Radical Members Of the
Congress Of Uruguay and
Committees Meet.
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MONTENTDEO, Uruguay. Dec &C..
Legislation OF the most radical
character is being discussed by con
gressionaI commissions which have
been meeting regularly In this capital
for the last few weeks. The ordinary
sessions OF Congress are fixed by the
constitution to be held between Feb
ruary 15 and Juno i s Of each year,
but the radicals have forced the is
sue and their advanced ideas are be
ling considered at this time.
The most revolutionary OF the
Proposal is that Uruguay shall
change its form or government SO
that a commission instead OF a pre8i-
/ dent shall be4vested with the eXecu-
tive power. Uruguay, one OF the
richest and best governed, though
one OF the smallest of the South
lAmericnn republics, has population
! OF less than 100000 which the
supporters OF the commission plan
/ say would lend itself to the new
Idea It's nineteen departments, cor
responding to states in the United
A states OF North America, are SO close
4 Nv welded BY railways and Waterways
THAT the governmental problem is
Isimpler in the little republic than
in any other entity OF the southern
4 continent. The proposed commission
4 would consist of seven members. one
Ito act as executive chairman for the
.Iperiod of a year. to be replaced at the
respiration OF this time by another
imember Of the commission. The re-
!tiring executive chairman would leave
the post to be replaced by new
Imember to be selected by the legisla-
lture. Only those who served on the
Commission for d period longer than
a year would beseligible to the chair
imanship.
Under the present constitution the
lexecutive power is vested in Il presi-
dent who is chosen by the general
ASSEMBLY for term Of four years and
who is forbidden TO be candidate
for reelection for the term inmedi-
lately following his own tenure of of
fee, DIR. Felicianoi Vera, who heads
the present Uruguayan government,
lis a pronounced radical, but II is po-
!litical gossip that the program OF the
Iextremists of his own party hastaken
him off his feet and he is doing what
The can to stem the tide. Already
1.-THE insurance business and the cleo
Etric light and power business Of the
lcapital have been taken over by the
government and enthusiasts are call
ling for state owned railways, bakeries
land street car systems. Here they
{haye met the opposition of the British
owners of the railways who have
threatened to withdraw their capital
liz the proposed laWs1are put into eff
fleet.
4 Recently the sociologists have be
leone active and Domingo Arena. one
Iof the most prominent lawyers of the
4 country made q speech before tbs
y commission advocating the enactment
of a divorce law by the provisions o.
Y: which woman might be released
from the matrimonial contract upon
a mere request to that effect before
Ia properly constituted magistrate.
Under the proposed law a woman
would not be required to give any
cause whatsoever. In the case OF a
4 husband a long list OF limiting causes
4 is enumerated. The author of this
measure declared that the peculiar
conditions OF Uruguay called for such