The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-09-07
GENERAL PRESS REVIEW

In regard to the disability Of the president
and the assumption of his duties by the vice.
president, ex- Senator Eaton, of Connecticut
a democrat of "the most strictest sect" and
regarded by Senators Edmunds, Ccnkling
Thurman and the lSte Senator Carpenter
~ one OF ihs ablest and best constitutional
lawyers In the entire country, says;
Under the constitution there can be IN
disability that the president can be conscious
of. 1t musE be disability, as, for example,
If he wore insane which ia patent to everys
body except himself. So long as he pos
sesses reasoning powers and can direct what
should be done in bis place he cannot be
held, under the constitution, TO be disabled.
1t is therefore absurd to talk about plans
which require his own intelligence and
direction TO carry into effect. If he 10 SUI
fering from disability such as is clearly
evident TO those about him and to the
country, the president under the con.
stitution, mus assume the functions of
the office, and no legislation is needed to
enforce this duty, though it will be
well for congress to make some provision for
the future, perhaps. la this case the vice.
president acts only temporarily, and while
the disability Of the president continues
The English precedent, in the George Ill.
case, lie sufficient to establish this point,
Until the king was pronounced permanently
insane, the prince regent acted in Temporal
ry capacity. Some writers have asserted
that Gen. Arthur if once called to assume
Tho nraetnaptial fupnffnna xpD,,lJ - 10,
hold the place permanently, but there 10
neither law nor 60 ID reason 10 this position
In the first place, he would not be disposed
to hold, and if he we're, the recovered presi-
dent would have remedy in msndsmus,
and the supreme court Of the United States
would very soon settle the question lin bis
favor. The meaning of tho constitution 10
Just as plain as would DO an article in the by
laws of a corporation, which should say that,
in case of the disability Of the president, the
frat vice-president should act. No one
would expect to hold the position when the
president would be able TO resume bis duties.
Among the latter day humbugs ore the
weather rrognosticators. We do not in
clude in this remark the government weather
buresu at Washington, for this only pre-.
tends to forecast the weather for twenty.
four hours ahead, and Il is made upon
meteorological reports made hourly by tele-
graph from innumerable stations all over the
country. We mean the Vennors and the
Tices. How in the name Of common sense
can these men have the prescience, more
than other men have, ss 10 what the weather,
months ahead, will be? Such suppoiition
is contrary 10 common intelligence, and
there is no better evidence of thel: chsrla>
tianry than their continued failures. On
this subject the New York Evening Mail says
the following Of Vennoi;
There is a slang phrsac heard in tbs street
and on the stage continually which precisely
describes Mr.. Vennor In relation 10 his
weather predictions: He ia too previous.
Or, in the emphatic phrase invented by MIR.
John Howson in 0livet.e, he is too prelimin.
arily previous. He is not only greatly shesd
of time with his forecasts Of frost and other
things, but ahead of fact. He Is continually
left, as the street gsmins also put i! in their
expressive sbbreviation of the yernscular
One of tho actors in The Tourists rsmart :
Ips cold day when / get left, and this 40,
has become q popular saying with ne
who do no! mind sprinkling of vulr in
their conversation. But in ,L.s case
G well Vennor goeS by contrarles, and
the days on which he gets lett by the
failure of his prophesies are particularly and
uucomforlably warm. His only salvation,
in fact, is real cold day." and little
twiDge of frost would DO rs delicious 10 him
"a TO Polar bear in menagerle. If out OF
failure comes success, tho success, which
anally awaits Vennor must be of gigantic
proportions. just look al tho number of
failures with which this indomitable prophet
has met, and tho weary continuity OF them.
The monotonyof the thing has tired out
everybody olse. but not Vennor lie nill
prophesies With the presidency and cheer
fulness ola felfsdmired conversstioralist,
who amuses himself by boring his scquaint,
ancee. August % to 20. said Vennor, heavy
storms around New York; 81 TO 20, cooler
weather, some rain and little frost; 80 10 81,
fair and pleasant cool evenings and nights,
with indications of returning heat, and now
ho tells US that we are going 10 have "cooler
Nohtucf Wy pntuiubJ huu Duuuhy, WIN
probably irosss in New York state and some
heavy transforms during the carly part Of
the week following" BE Is In Atlantic
City when he says this. Wonder II he feel,
quite safe this side Of tho border. II he
should remain with US over Sunday bis cour-
age will amount 10 temeriiy.
People in this country, as q down. easter
would say, do know right smart and whom
they are picked up for fools by Foreigner
the foreigner generally evolves at the smaller
end Of the horn. We think tho newspa.
pers Of tho day are tho sources from which
a deal Of this "smar,ness" is derived. The
newspaper men who toll by day and by nigh,
giving the sweat Of their brain for the good Of
the public are not properly appreciated. The
journalist who Is al all proficient In bis pro.
fession Is q statesman, a scien,ist, an edu.
os'or--sn intellectual sieve. you may cay,
who receives groat volumes Of knowledge hu.
10 give II out again. On this subiec, ,be
Philadelphia Times Gays
Nothing IL greater surprise 10 the Euro
pean than the wide range Of information
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