Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1905 — NEW INAUGURAL DAY. [ARTICLE]

NEW INAUGURAL DAY.

Last Thursday In April Selected for Installation of Presidents. President Roosevelt’s successor will be inaugurated on the last Thursday in April. iiK)9, instead of on the 4th of March that year, provided Congress and the different States act promptly upon a report which will be made to it by a committee consisting of the Governors of forty-four States and territories and fifteen citizens of Washington. There was a unanimity of sentiment th*it the date upon which the President is inaugurated should be changed. The 4th of March generally is inclement. The weather during the latter part of February and the first of March is the most trying of all the winter in Washington, nnd numerous deaths are traceable directly to exposure, either forced or voluntary, on inaugurnth.n day The date upon which the President Is inaugurated can be changed only by an amendment to the Constitution. Twice the Senate has passed a resolution introduced by the late Senator Hoar to submit an amendment to the Constitution designating the last Thursday in April as inauguration day. The choice between the members of the committee narrowed down to this date or the 30th of April, several of thi Governors favoring the latter because on that date George Washington was first inaugurated. A large majority of the committee preferred the last Thursday, to prevent the day for inaugurating the IVesident from falling on Sunday. R. J. Popping and A. H. Ward, broth-ers-in-law. were shot and killed by unknown persons on a lonely road near Mndill. I. T. Last February Ward shot and killed H. Harkey, a farmer who lived near Madill, and it is thought the assassinations grew out of the former tragedy. ' Six persons bitten by a mad dog at Newport News, Vo., will be given tha Pasteur treatment at Bahimore and Richmond. Charles Adams, a penniless orphan, ous of the victims, will be treated free.