Show wily why THE lilt FOUR foun 1 IT OF MARCU MARCH WAB WAS SELECTED select the portland advertiser correcting the b blundering lundering statement which every year or two goes the round of the papers to the effect that the fourth of march was elected tid as the beginning of the presidential term because it sin win not fall on sunday for three hundred bundred years to comes come bays the sele selection cUon of the fourth of march as the daylor day tor the beginning of the president presidential ial lil term seems tobaie been the result of accident the ou old continental congress when the ratification of the new nelv constitution by tr the tha necessary number of states had been ascertained passed a resolution sept 13 appointing the know wednesday of the next nat january for the choice of if the i ine ile presidential electors the first wednesday of pe rel I 1 ru for the elec election sIon of president and aud vice president tu and ird the hirst first wednesday of march as the time for the organs naion lalon of the new government the farst first Wednes wednesday day dar of march happened to be in tho tha year I 1 1783 the fourth or march marr by and as the administration which began 1 on that day was limited to four years ty vy I 1 the th thi neilt and all bucce succeeding eding administrations iare begun on this dayot day of the month |