The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-02-02
Opinion. of the Press.

Neither party can afford to ep-
pose the new plan. It must be
regarded by both as a concession,
but neither is in a position to
oppose it.-Cincinnati CONNER
cial.
Sober people outside the un-
wholesome air of the capital are
amazed to hear of such a PROPOSE
ton to set aside the nationsl
Constitution being entertained,
and actually agreed to by repre-
sentaaives of both parties. The
resolutionists of France hardly
tore old institutions to pieces
more rashly.-Cincinnati Gazette.
The bill is a pernicious one in
itself, and would be dangerous as
a precedent. The result of arbit-
tration would enrage and not sat
isfy either party. The bill would
be the humiliating confession
that after a President has been
elected the constitutional arbitra-
tors, $40 men, all the facts in their
possession, with their oahts re-
corded, are unable to or dare not
declare the result of the election
without lawless assistance.-Cin-
oinnati Enquirer.
We are not disposed to find
fault with the plan of counting
the vote adopted by the confer
ence committee, bnt it is no little
humiliation after the worship
which has been lavished upon
the Constitution to find that we
ere compelled in q very ordinary
emergency to resort to q device
which has no SAVIOR of constitu-
tionality about it AS far as Sthe
Constitution provides for count
ing the electoral vote it provides
that this shall be done without
any assistance or intervention
of the Supreme Court.-St Louis
Globe Democrat.
The plan, however, speaks for
itself even more eloquently than
can the leaders who will urge 1t
upon the favorable consideration
of Congress.-Detrolt Free Press,
Dem.
Your correspondent is enabled
to say positively that the Presi-
dent will sign the bill as soon as
it is brought before him, and
that he does not mean to delay
the measure q moment.-Wash.
Dispatch to N. Y. Herald.
The plan proposed at Washing
ton for counting the electoral vote,
and now stated to have been
adopted by the joint committee,
is revolutionary and dangerous.
The only safe course is to adhere
to the obvious intent of the
Constitution and the practice of
those who framed and adopted it.
New York Tribune.
Excepting the single element
of deciding by lot the compost
ton of the counting court, this
plan is open to all the objections
which have been frequently set
forth in these columns. 1t impOs-
es on the Judges of the Supreme
Court functions winch they were
never intended to perform, and it
relieves the President of the
Senate of duties which the
trainers of the Constitution de-
liberately and distinctly imposed
on him. It is merely q device to
stave of the settlement of ques-
tons which can and ought to be
decided at once, and it renders
possible the occurrence of a Presi-
Dental interrgnum which would
neither be creditable nor profiSa-
bic To the country.-New York
Times.
We hope to be able to give it
a warm, earnest support, not mere
ly on the ground that any settle
Dent is better than none, but ON
the higher ground that the com
mittee have succeeded in devist-
ing a method which is fair, wise.
judicious, and conciliatory, and
against which no objections can
be made which are not captions
frivolous.-New York World.