The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-12-20
WARD Lannon's SHORTER CATE
CHISM.

The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Times gives the result of an in.
terview between Col. LAMoN, of Mar
tinsburg, and President GRANT and Sec
retary CHANDLER. 1t would seem that
the Colonel successfully bull-dozed the
pair with some little conundrums, the
text of which is given. The Times says:
Among the significant facts which
have come within the knowledge of the
Times commissioner is the result of curl
Gus conference between Grant and Chan
dler and Ward II. Lsmon. The gentle
man will be remembered by Illinois
people as former law partner of
Lincoln's aid United States mar
shall of this district during his term
and Johnsons. Lamon has been
Conservative Republican, and supported
Hayes during the compalgn. Indeed, so
interested was he in Hayes success that
he consented to run for Congress at his
home in West Virginia, where he has
been settled for some years, in order to
give the Hayes ticket the strength of his
name. He came to Washington the other
day, and gave the Chandler people great
uneasiness by
DENoUNCING THE SCHEME
to count in Hayes as criminal blunder,
not only against the party, but against
the republic He had not been in town
long when influential delegations waited
upon him TO cause change in his views.
He seems TO have been unmoved, how
ever, but finally turned upon the Hayes
people and drew up the following ques.
tions, which he laid before Grant and
Chandler, rs formal interview, and de-
manded categorical ard explicit answer.
The subject was made state secret, and
Lamon refuses to acknowledge even the
facts, but The Times diplomatic corps
succeeded in obtaining the document laid
before Grant and Chandler, with the
substance of the answers.
THE QUESTIONS WERE EIGHT IN NUM-
BER,
rs follows:
l. Is there anything in the constitu-
ton or laws requiring the President 10 be |
inaugurated at the seat of goyernmentf
2. Who is authorized to administer the
oath of Office to the President elect?
3. Is the taking OF the oath sufficient
inauguration, At the seat OF government
or elsewhere TO authorize such an inau- |
gArated President to act as such?
4. When does the term Cf President
explre-the day and hour2
5. The 4th OF March, 1877, coming on
the holy Sabbath, and the President elect
is not ins ugurated on that day, but is on
the day following, does this cause an
interregnum?
q. If no interregnum who is Presi-
dent, and does the outgoing President
hold over, or ia the President of the
Seaate ex-otiicie President OF the u nited
States? i
7. In case the Inauguration OF the
President-elect is deferred until the 9th
of March, and pseudo. president or II
usurper should be inaugurated on the
4th, and he should exercise acts Ot mag
isterial and executive purport, would he
or would he not be regarded by law Us
the president de tacto for the time being,
and his acts accepted as legal?
s. Should Tilden be quietly lnaugur
ated in the city of New York on the
4th of March, and take possession OF the
custom house, navy-ysrd, sub treasury.
etc. what will be- the consequence?
To the first query, Grant, who was
GOOD WAYS 'oS IN Li'0oN'
orsworod with great solempily, that he
I,d,,, know Zach allowed that the
a,.b ,,;rbt Ma administered to Tilden in
W T",, WI in nrcnrdance with n prece-
ton, I>ut sa,tiod wben Virs prrs;dent Kinp
.,. uon' .So $780, os,h ~ rubo manv vpsrs 400
:. ,oon DT Iowaror ! 'rb,od whether in inc
"'', ,os;dort tbis wouId NOT be con-
eaSo 49, ol .lm ,inIont - dansTtpre from the
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