Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-08-21

President of the Senate, pro tempore, and
in case there shall be no President Of the
Senate, then the Speaker OF the House of
Representatives, for the time being shall act
as President of the United States until the
disability be removed, or President shall
be elected.
Sec. 10. Whenever the offices of Presi-
dent and Vice President shall both become
vacant, the Secretary Of State shall forth
with oause notification thereof to be made
to the Executive Of every State, and shall
also cause the same to be published in at
least one of the newspapers printed in each
State, specifying that electors of the Presi-
dent of the United States shall be appointed
or chosen in the several States within thir-
ty-fcur days preceding the first Wednes-
day in December then next ensuing, pro-
vided there shall be the space Of two months
between the date of such notification and
the said first Wednesday in December; and
if the term for which the President and
Vice President last in office were elected
shall not expire on the third day Of March
next ensuing, then the Secretary of State
shall specify in the notification that the cleo
tors shall be appointed or chosen within
thirty-four days preceding the first We'd
nesday in December, in the year next en-
suing, within which time the electors shall
accordingly be appointed or chosen. And
the electors shall meet and give their votes
on the said first Wednesday in December,
and the proceedings and duties of the said
electors and others shall be pursuant to the
directions prescribed in this act.
Note-The lines in brackets in the
above section are, perhaps, superseded by
the words son the Tuesday nert after the
first Monday in the month of November" by
the act of lS45, ch. !, which see above.7
Sec. II. The only evidence Of a refusal
to accept, or of resignation, of the office of
President or Vice President, shall be an in
strument in writing declaring the same, and
subscribed by the person refusing to accept,
or resigning, as the case may be, and deliv-
cred into the Office of the Secretary of State.
Sec. II. The term of four years, for
which President and Vice President shall
be elected, shall, in all case. commence on the
fourth day of March succeeding the day on
which the votes Of the electors shall have
been given.
The act of 1904, ch. so, supplementary to
the above act of 1892, ch. 8, enacts 'that
every other provision of the act 1872, ch.
81 to which this a supplement, and which
is not virtually repealed by this act, which
act embodies the provisions of the 18th
amendment TO the constitution ard other
provisions, having a temporary operation
only, in the interval previous to the ratifi-
cation of said amendment by the States, and
contingent thereupon, shall extend and ap-
ply to every election of President and
Vice President of the United States made
in conformity to the aforementioned l2h1
amendmendment to the constitution
By the act Of Congress of 1925, chap. 8;
l84s, chap. l66; lS49, res. No. 2, the per-
son appointed by the electors to deliver to
the President of the Senate list of the
votes for President and Vice President,
shall be allowed on delivery of said list,
twenty-five cents for every mile of the es-
timated distance by the most usual route
from the place of meeting of electors to the
seat of government of the United States
going and returning.
NorE-It will be perceived that addi-
tional legislation is required to make the
election Of President of the United States
in all cases mathematical certainty, and
with view to meet the existing defects in
the Constitution and laws, the Chairman oI
the Senate Judiciary Committee in Con.
gress, Mr.. Butler, of S. c., has given no,
tice OF bill which provides for those case.
omitted in the Constitution, in which not on.
ly the President and Vice President, but
also the Speaker of the House is unable tc
perform or are prevented from performing
the duties of President. In that case the
bill provides 'that the Justice shall act a.
President" and if he, too, is unable, ther
the next Oldest Judge, and SO on until the
whole supreme bench is exhausted. The
bill also provides for those cases in which
the different provisions of the Constitution
as amended, come in apparent conflict with
each other, as for instance in the case in
which the Speaker of the House who is
called upon TO act as President is not ma
tive Of ths country, the Constitution pre-
scribing that he shall bel or in which one
of the officers or Judges designated to act
Chief Magistrate has not the age required
by the Constitution for President. The bill
also provides that the President thus called
to act by the operation of law shall be Pres.
idsnt for four years, and that no new Pres.
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