Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1862-12-10
ThIrty-seventb Congress.



olution, proposing certain amendments to
the Constitution 20 alter the mode Of electing
President and Vice Preeide providing that
the President and Vice President be elected
ia the following manner: L LIZ
Each State may, within the thirty days next
before the time appointed for the election Of
President in any mode adopted by the State,
nominate to Congress one candidate, and on
The first Monday Of. February next, before thu
expiration Of each Presidential term, The two
Houses Of Congress shall meet together as q
convention in the Hall of the House Of Rep
resentatives, and all the candidates homina-
ted by the States within the preceding thirty
days, not exceeding one from each State,
whose nomination shal. have been apthenti-
Gated TO Congress, shall be before said Con
vention as candidates for the Presiden-
cy, and thereupon said nlOonven ton
shall proceed, under the supervision of
presiding officers Of the two Houses TO vote
by open ballot from among said candidates
for President; aud when anyon shall have
received number Of votes equal 20 all the
members elected and appointed by both
Houses of Congress, he shall be declared by
the President of the Senate to be elected
President ef the United States
In all cases where baloting shall have con-
tiAued in this mode through five days, and no
election shall have been effected, on d the
sixth day it shall be resumed, and after each
ballot the officers presiding shall drop the can
didate who has received the smallest number
Of votes, or two OF more candidates who have
received an equal number of votes, and less
than all the others; and the balloting shall be
so continued among the remaining candidates
until one shall receive the majority aforesaid,
and thereupon the President of the Senate
shall announce him to be elected President OF
the United States. ILL., a...l.
The Convention shall then proceed in the
same manner from among the remaining can
didates to elect Vice President OF the Uni
| ted States. ... -355s-a.la ...
| Whenever it may occur in the voting for
President or Vice President that all the can.
didates but two have been dropped, balloting
between them may If necessary TO make an
election continue two days longer, andif then
no candidate shall have received the required
number of votes, the officers presiding over
the Convention shall report the state of facts
to the Superior Court of the United States
and it shall thereupon pronounce which of the
two candidates shall fill the office.
! The resolution was ordered to be printed
After Executive session the Senate ad-
journed i'l- a
WARRINGTON, Dec y.
HoUsE-Considered Senate bill for admis-
sion of the State of Western Virginia into the
Union.
Mr. Conway said he did not regard the pro-
position as now presented as having received
the assent required by the Constitution, thai
i Western Virginia was not lawful State
He believed it was the intention of the Pres
dent to encourage State organizations in all
the seeded States; but placing the assump
ton Of the State in the hands Of few indi.
viduals appointed by the President was fla
grant and unconstitutional. The scheme wa'
revolutionary and ought to be exposed to the
reprobation OF every loyal citizen. "'"
1t would be an utter perversion of our sys
tenn it would in effect, concentrate all the
power Of the Government in the hands Of the
executive
Mr. Brown, Of Virginia, replied, arguing
that the erection of the State of Western Vir
ginia was perfectly lawful and constitutional
The provision of the Constitution in regard L
the admission and erection OF new States haC
been complied with, and in this connection
he quoted as similar the preamble and act ad
mttting Kentucky, which was formed from
part of Virginia Precedents he insisted sup
ported the new organization.
Mr. Mallory said: understand that mori
than half the counties OF Virginia were no
represented in the Wheeling Legislature.
Mr. Blair, OF Virginia, asked, were not al
the counties invited? 'oa Is 'nsaa
Mr. Brown---All wore expressly invited.
Mr. .Malory--Although they were invited
: were not some Of them so completely within
the control Of a foreign Government, that the
could not send representatives to the Legisa
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