| Show A POLITICAL QUESTION in response to an inquiry an eastern pa paper r says the unite 1 states senate collapse a at t noon on the fourth of march in every old odd numbered year when a president is ie to be binau inaugurated the outgoing incumbent usually calls an extra session in order that there may be an organization of that body and thus thua the incoming president a appoint appointments menis be con coir fl armed A reader ot of the NEWS asks while this to is partly correct is it not also partly wron wrong gJ to which we an answer that it I 1 if almost wholly wrong such portion of it as is right being only incidentally so go the united states senate to is a con coll tinning body that has known no dissolution 4 pr or lapse as is the case with the lower house ot of congress Cong repa reps since it was first organized it was so ar ranged for wise and sufficient reasons even when the new senators who are chosen every other year to the number of about one third ot of the whole body have hare not been sworn into the places held by a cor responding number of out goers there is ie still of necessity two thirds of the entire membership or thereabout there about left and these constitute the senate whether the new men come in or stay out of course the latter take their places at the first convelly con convening venly a of the body to which they are chosen unless there should be a contest or some legal impediment but the exist ence of the senate remains intact under any circumstances the house ot of representatives perishes peri abes pro promptly r 0 t y at the hour named because the te terms r 9 of all its members expire at that time but as shown only a third of the up per house go out leaving more tha than xa a more mere quorum for the transaction of business the forego g unsettles unsettled un settles t the h e other proposition or a part of it raving having 1 already a aita 3 legal ex istance the senate does docs not have to organize in order to acquire one or to confirm the President lis appointee appoint appointments me rhese do not of necessity have to be confirmed at so early a stage of the proceedings ce the constitution providers provided that he can appoint without the alvice and consent of the senate when that body is nt na in session and such J appointees are legitimate officeholders until the senate is again convened and acts upon their oases cases the convening or rather retaining of the senate by the outgoing president la Is simply an act of courtesy to his su sue 0 who may have business with that body of more consequence than appointments only as is generally the case |
