The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-10-30
The Election of President and Vice Pres
ident of the United States.

In the brief interval last year between the
day of the popular vote and the con6rmatory,
action of the Electoral Colleges, in the elec-
tion of the President and Vice President of
the United States, an unexpected event occurr-
ed, which, in its immediate consequences,
startled the whole country with the uncertain
ties, irregularities and dangers involved in the
existing methods of electing those two impor-
tant public officers. This unexpected event
was the death Of Horace Greeley, the Presi-
Dental candidate of the anti-administration
elements of the country in opposition to Gen
eral Grant, renominated as the standard bearer
of the party in power; and the immediate cor
sequences, the half dozen electoral bodies
chosen in behalf of Greeley and Brown, were
such as to bring the danger into bold relief
that in the chapter of accidents a President, by
the Electoral Colleges, might be chosen, not
voted for and never dreamed of by any con-
siderable portion of the people in their suf-
frages. From the profound impression thus
made upon the public mind in favor of a
change in the present method of choosing our
President and Vice President the subject was
brought to the attention of Congress more
emphatically than ever before, and in view of
q, constitutional amendment on the subject in
season for eur next Presidential election.
In Difference to the general public opinion of
the country, says the New York Herald, the
Committee on Privileges and Elections Of the
Of fl,o1 1act c.cin of
gress we're instructed during the recess to the
meeting of the next Congress to consider the
subject of the constitutional amendment sug-
eested and to report their views and conclu-
sions thereon to the Senate at their earliest
convenience after the reassembling of that
body. In obedience to these instructions
Messrs. Morton, Of Indiana; Carpenter, of
Wisconsin; Anthony, OF Rhode Island, and
Bayard.' of Delaware, Of said committee re-
cnntly met in New York city, and after numer-
ons conferences from day to day they agreed
moon the following propositions. as expedient
r.. he embodied in a new amendment of the
constitution
4. To abolish the Electoral Colleges.
3: That the President and Vice President be
elected by the people voting directly tor the
candidates. -,
g That each SLlCe SHE'LL De ulfluCu luto "o
manv districts as the State is entitled to Rep
resentatives in Congress- to be composed Of
contiguous territory, compact in form, and as
nearly equal in population as May be, and the
penson having the highest number of votes fol
President in each district shall receive the vote
- tbot DISTRICT. which shall count one Presi-
dsnt;al vote: that each State shall be entitled
~ t,uo Presidential votes at large, which shall
he countsa for the person having the highest
number of votes in the whole State
4 The person having the highest 1aa number stato
such Presidential votes in the Onlteo otateS
shall be President =, :,
5. These provisions to be applicable to tht
election of Vice President
6. Congress shall have power to provide tol
holding and conducting the election for Presl
dent and Vice President, and to establish 6
tribunal for the decision OF contests as to the
vote in any district or State, and make regula
tions governing the proceedings of these trib
unalS