The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-11-05

DEADLOCK IS PROBABLE THERE
Il No Agreement Was Reached
Senate Would Decide

Washington. ID. c., Nov, 5.-The
next Electoral College will consist OF
53l members, which means that the
candidate for president at today's cleo
tion, II successful, must receive at
least 266 electoral votes. Political OBJ
servers are now asking what will hap
pen IL none Of the three leading can
6idates for the presidency-Prestde
Taft. Colonel Roosevelt and Governor
Wilson--receives the necessary ma
iority of the electoral vote.
The law provides that the selection
OF "A President under these conditions
shall be thrown into the House 9f
Representatives The election of a
President was thrown into the House
in 1901, and the complication which
arose then resulted in the Twelfth
Amendemer to the Constitution,
which covers the contingency which
many persons think may again arise
as n result of today's election. II
provides that the Electoral Colleges
shall meet and ballot in the respec-
tive states: that they shall prepare
lists showing how they have voted.
which sLall be transmitted to the
Federal Capital and opened in ses-
sion of the two houses of Congress by
the President of the Senate; that the
votes shall be counted; that the per-
son having the greatest number of
electoral votes, IL il be a majority.
shall be President. and that If there be
no such person the voting shall take
place i'm the House of Representatives
and by States.
Then comes the interesting possibil-
ity that the House may not be able
TO elect. The States i'm the House are
equally divided politically. although
the present Congress Is Democratic by
numbers. In the twenty-five States
the majority of the delegation is Re-
publican and i'm an equal number Of
Then there are four states where the
delegation is equally divided and in
as each state is entitled tn
one vote only, no votes could
be cast in these four states.
This situation would make it
impossible for the House to elect un-
less there should be a combination
between the Taft men and the Demo-
Gratis. On the one hand, or the Roose-
welt men and the Democrats. on the
other.
The Vice Presidency.
would be no election. The Senate
would choose a Vice President, and he
would act as President AS the Sen
ate stands there are 49 Republican
"A Democratic senator's. and
three vacancies, one each in Colorado. |
Illinois and Idaho. The vacancies WILL
probably be filled by State legislatures
soon after the first of the year. II
the Republicans managed to keep their |
the situation would be as in |
teresting or more so than If the body !
were evenly divided. Under the Con-
the Senate must choose be-
tween the two candidates for Vice
President receiving the highest num-
per of votes I'm the Electoral College. !
on the surface of things the Repub-
leans. having majority, would elect
4 man to succeed President Taft. But
he Republican coptroi is only nomi
lal, for among the Republican sena-
ors are several who have declared
or Roosevelt and Johnson. and would
not. 1t Is believed. vote for a Republi-
IAN or Marshall unless compelled by
| majority of the Senate. under a
'ule requiring that every senator
present shall vote on every roll call.
% declare for one or the other.