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Show SENATOR WOULD CHANGE TIME FOR INAUGURATION With an administration and a congress con-gress marking time for four months, at great expense, until the new regime is inaugurated, there is increasing sentiment in favor of an earlier installation in-stallation of a newly elected president presi-dent and of a new congress. The Judiciary committee of the senate now has before it the Ashurst resolution proposing a constitutional amendment providing that the presidential presi-dential term shall commence on the third Monday of January following an election; that the presidential electors elect-ors shall cast their votes on the second sec-ond Monday in December; that congress con-gress shall canvass the vote on the second Monday of ajnuary, and that the terms of senators and representatives representa-tives shall begin on the first Monday of January. The amendment empowers congress to change these dates in its discretion, discre-tion, and provides that it shall not take effect until after .March 4, 1925. If this proposed amendment should be adopted without change the president presi-dent elected in 1928 would take office two and a half, instead of four, months, and the new congress two, instead in-stead of thirteen, months after the election, and the presidential vote would be canvassed by the incoming j instead of the outgoing congress. |