Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1886-01-01
THE PRESIDENTIAL sUC0EssION


This bill having paused the Senate and
reached the House, II is more than probable
that it will come up for action Immediately
on the re-assembling of Congress.
The House is full Of statesmen % that
have ideas on the subject and notable
popularity Of many House ideas 10 in the
antagonism they present TO Senate ideas.
1t Is a difference that results, In . great
measure, from the different constitutions OF
the two chambers. The House 10 repre-
sentative assembly Of the naticn---of the
great political society called the republic.
The Senate, on the other hand, 10 an assem-.
bly, Of gentlemen who represent simply the
party that, BY hook or BY crook, returned q
majority TO the particular local legislatures
that elected them. senators cherish with
unwarranted egotism the notion that they
Iare the supper house" and nourish 1t by
Rolemnly meditsting on the fact that they
hold their seats by longer tenure. and are
legally clothed with faculties that have been
withheld from the Representatives Of the re.
public; for example, the faculty Of approx
ing treaties with foreign powers and nomi.
nations Of the Presidents subordinates-
faculties that In kingly constitutions pertain
to the 'svrivy council' Of the monarch. II
is, however, for exactly these reasons that
the representatives Of the republic are liable
70 intcrpose notions of their own respecting
the Senate's presidential succession bill.
The Senate bill proposes To place the
Presidents secretaries In the line OF success
sion after the heir apparent The represcn.
tativcs Of the country have no participation
In the appointment Of those functionaries.
They are nominated by the President, but
appointed by the Srdvicc and consent" Of
the august deputies local Legislative ma.
IoElsies.4 A<A- ~ 4...-s.----
would d 10 surprising, therefore, II
pleasure shd = encounter very emphatic
Fition In thS popular chamber Indeed,
Isions Of opposition TO il are already
ding. Tn1 dically different propo-
have d bnounced, one by Mr..
bIs, Of Sd Carolina, aud one by Mr..
idas l,osf ennsylvania. Mr.. d. proposes TO
bate q constitutional amendment, a second
lice President, upon the hypothesis that a
pg with two tails would be better secured
IAN a dog with only one against the posi-
lity Of losing that convenient member. Mr..
Endall's plant Is less absurd, and II he would
company Il with provision TO abolish the
less and mschievous superiority called
Vice-president, would invite great com.
dalton as the most sensible plan OF set
the presidential succession question
ias ever been suggested.
Randalrs proposition Is that the presi.
electors shall be chosen for the whole
entail period, that whenever the Vice.
rnt disappears by reason OF devolu.
the Presidency upqn him OF by any
y electors shall immediately elect
rssur. and II the President and heir
disappear simultaneously that they
medistely elect the successors of
bat Is all there 10 Of II. II Is sim.
pie and desirable. excepting In that
the superfuity called the Vice.
'hjeciion Mr.. Randall might an.
yer. that his proposition contem.
an act Of Congress, and abolish
lisy would require an alteration
Amental law. That might be
fdient ss there are even mem.
Tess 90 fascinated with their
sbsurdiiy that they would
stitution In order 10 supply
them rather than abolish
Is some strength In this
Randall's sensible propo.
eould practically manifest
W. vglIl 9041sy az 'dseicssaess u a., heis.ap.
pafens-the electors being slwsys ready 70
elett Presidsisi 10 case Of yscsncy---its
adoption probably would serve TO hasten the
abolition of that mischievous superiiuity.
and - v correct an error that the authors
Of our Political arrangements, il they could
have prolonged their vision . little into the
future. would not have committed. II Is by
many degrees the most sensible proposition
respecting the presidential succession that
has been suggested.
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Experience seems To have fully demon.
Ffrated that good farming rests upon broad
Ind general principles. but 1t appears, as
et. impossible TO lay down any established
= as 70 The details AS q general rule
nkide latitude Is given for the exercise
r1ixidual judgment and discre.
temember that we ever
nor no two felds on
Rbably no two acres