The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-04-25
The Congo Constitution.
The Consultation of the United satrn-
pies of America.
...... Concluded.
ARTICLE ii.
SECTION III.

II
Satrapies shall be vested in the Con.
gress. There shall be an officer, to be
known as the President, who shall re-
ceive a salary subject to such redue
tions as the Congress may prescribe.
All expenses of the President, of what
ever sort, shall be paid by himself. The
President shall hold his office during
the pleasure of the Congress, and may
be appointed by the Congress, although
he may, whenever the public interests
shall admit of such q proceeding, be
chosen in ageneral election by the resi-
dents of the several truly loyal Satra-
pies. .f.... .
2. Whenever the Congress shall per
nit the election of President, the
Central Union League Club for each
Satrapy shall designate the electors, in
such number as the Congress by law
may specify, who shall be voted for by
all residents duly qualified. The cleo
tors shall meet. in their respective Sa-
trapies, and vote by ballot for the per-
son selected by the National Radical
Convention, or by the Congress, as a
candidate for President. When such
voting shall have been completed, in
formation of the result shall be commu-
nicated to the Congress, which shall
thereupon proceed to declare, by reso-
luton, the name of the person chosen
to act rs President, who shall forthwith
enter uDOn the discharge of his duties.
But nothing in this section shall be
understood to operate against the power
of the Congress to set aside this election
or designate another person to perform
the functions of President.
g. The duties of the President shall
be to sign all bills and resolutions that
may be passed by the Congress, and to
appoint to the various subordinate ad-
ministTative offices such persons as may
be designated therefor by the Congress,
or by Congressman Individually, or by
prominent members of the Union
League.
4. In case of refusal on the part Of
the President to sign any bill or resolu-
tion that may be passed by the Congress,
or to perform any act that may be CON-
handed by the Congress, or in case Of
an objection by the President to the
acts of the Congress, or of any individ-
ual Congressman, or member OF the
Union League, or prominent Radical,
the said President shall thereupon be
hanged, drawn and quartered iu pres
ence of the Congress and such loyal
persous rs may desire to witness the
spectacle, and the body, and all por-
tions thereof, of tho President offend
ing shall, after proper exhibition upon
the portico aud dome of the Capitol
building, be reduced to ashes, and the
ashes shall be divided in small portions
and sold at public auction to loyal per-
sons, to be by them treated with such
marks of Indignation and conteelpt as
their respective moral ideas may die
tate.
5. The President shall from time to
time give to the Congress such inforna-
tion of the condition of the public
treasury as may be necessary to the reg
Elation of the drafts of the Congress
thereupon. He shall be responsible for
all the acts and all the omissions of
every public officer; but on no prctext
shall he remove any person from office
without the consent of the Congress.
6. The army and navy of the United
States shall be commanded by person
to be called q General, who shall hold
his office during the pleasure of the
Congress, and shall in all things obey
the Congress. Any person who can
smoke, drink, lie and talk about horses,
to the satisfaction of the leading MEM
bers of the House of Representatives,
and who shall show marked ability
to profit by the labors of other persons,
shall be qualified to be general. The
General shall from time to time give to
the Congress his opinion about such
matters and things as do not concern
him, especially about such things as he
may not speak of without covering him
self with infamy.