The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1850-11-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
WAsHINGroN, Nov. H..

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to the elections TO the thirty second Con-
grass now IN progress, for the reason that II
is the Congress which is. voting by State
Delegations, TO choose the next President,
should the election fail before The people
as it is thought may probably be the case
The next Presidential election is to be
held under the apporIionment to be made
in conformity with the several census
The apporlioument, it will be remembered
is to be made by the Secretary of the de-
| parlment of the Interior, according TO The
terms of the Census Act-lhe aggregate
number OF representatives TO be 233-ad'
ding two for California. The Secretary is
10 transmit to The House of Representatives
and 10 the Executive of each State, Ger
,ifcale of the number o: representatives. to
which each State may be entitled. 1t is
not, fear, certain whether The enumera>
lion will be completed and put in the hands
of the Secretary of the Interior during the
approaching session. But the Secretary
will apprise the States of the appor''on'
ment made, early next session, if not before.
BY the Constitution and the law Of 1892,
the number Of Electors apporlioned is TO be
equal to the number Of Representatives
and Senators 10 which the several States
NAV, by law, be "emtitled" al the time
when the President and Vice President.
thus 10 be chosen, should come into Office.
If no appor'loument he made, after an emu
meraion, at the time of choosing Electors.
then the number of Electors must be ac-
cordlng 10 the existing appor'ionmenf.-
But the apportionmen', under The seventh
census, is provided for without further
agency on the part of Congress. men.
ton these acls, because notice that many
persons and newspapers appear to be mys'
lifted abou, them.
The census returns are coming in with
great accuracy and convey very full and
complete knowledge Of statistics, not only
of numbar, but OF mortality, products oil
industry, valuation of estates. annual taxa
lion, colleges and schools, libraries, news.
papers, religion, profession. crime, wages,
Sc, SC.
The Southern States, will undoubtedly,
he found to have increased in wealth and
resources, as much, or more than any other
States; and the average amour. Of produc-
ton to each individual, will be, as under
the census of 1910. be found TO be greater
than in the Northern States.
One can hardly realize the fact that the
mex, Presidential election is to transfer the
Federal scepue from the Atlantic border TO
the States beyond the mountains.
In looking over the records, this rainy
day, Of election votes for President and
Vice President, Tor the first Presidential
.. Ian, commencing the 4lh March, 1889, ]
could not but be struck with the fact that
the whole number of Electoral votes was
but sixty nine, of which South Carolina
had seven. In the second election, under
the appor,onmen, made in conformity with
The census Of 1890. the whole number OF
votes 1872, and every one excep, three from
Vermont, and four from Kentucky, were
from Atlantic States. Tennessee come in
at the next term, and Ohio come in with
but three Electoral votes, in the fifth Presi-
dental election. Mr.. Calhoun. in his ire>
quen, illusions, in his speeches, 10 the un
preceden'ed growth OF the country. several
times alluded 10 The fact, as a pregnan, H.
lus,ra,ion Of it, tina, Mr.. Monroe proposed.
in 1922. TO set apart the portion OF country
now forming populous States, ia the North.
west, for the occupation Of Indian Tribes
Cor. Char. Com.