Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-02-25
Presidential Disability
Who Is to Name 1t?
Cabinet as q Factor
As to TlUO-Cent Coins
Curacao Wants Kaiser
Sef-StOpping Senators

N0UgTcsS Is INQUEST
Likewise it knows enough to keep away
from trouble.
Let us suppose that Congress had sought
to determine this question this time, namely
during the more serious phase Of President
Wilson's illness.
Congress was Republican
The President was a Democrat. The
Senate was in bitter fight with the Presi.
dent over the relative parts played by ltself
and the Executive in treaty making. Paru-
sanship ran high.
Suppose Congress had decided that the
President was so disabled as to be incapable
Of filing his Office:
Somahiug like civil strife would have
resulted.
Certainly more damage would have been
done to our institutions than was done by
the Presidents continuing to be President,
although kept away from official business by
his physicians.
CUPPOSE the Supreme Court had heen
- called upon to decide the question OF
disability?
When the President had been sick
month it would have called in Admiral Gray
son and the other doctors.
They would have testified, probably, thai
the President had suffered slight stroke OF
paralysis. that his mind was perfectly clear,
that he WAS capable OF acting Oh public
business if action by him was indispensable,
that with rest he would soon recover that
n decision by the court pronouncing him
disabled might affect him adversely and the
court confronted with the grave response
bility of shifting presidential authority into
other hands would probably have decided
that the President was not disabled within
the meaning of the constitution.
| C,OMF. unconscious humorist in bin Nug.
- costs TINT the cabinet should decide.
! Think Of Mr.. Baker, Mr.. Daniels, Mr.. Ian.
| sing. Mr.. Burleson and the rest Of them
holding that the President was no longer
| President and must give place 10 another.
Failure to say who shall decide on the
! Presidents disability looks like blind spot
| in the constitution until YOU look around
| for the right person to decide.
| TUERE is not any right person,
| l. We might leave it TO tho League of
| Nations. only the league. in practice. would
| nrobgbly BE- Just rs good n side stopper as
|
The makers Of the constitution pinned
| their faith in the common honesty Of the
| President. his family. his physicians.
Very likely wen have to go on trusting
to that,
q q q
| CSHALL We have a two'cent piece Or a
| - two and a half .ccut piece as a memorial
| to Roosevelt:
| 4 fcw years ago. with the price Of the
! Ford descending so that there was prospcct
! of that cars becoming like bananas and q
| certain grade Of cigars, "twOfers, all the
nation was in favor mildly in favor---of a
new two and II half cent piecc--all the ma .
! tion except those modest prOitCcrs of bv.
gone days who rCjoiccd in the gains that
came through the sale now and then for
three cents OF a single object the price Of
| which was five cents for two.
But now, with tho Ford rapidly going IN
10 The old price Of the Rolls Royce, with the
total disappearance of all kinds of two.
fcrs," with the pTOttcer scornful Of III.
gotten half cents, the two and a half cent
piece holds out no promise OF fattencd sav.
ings accounts
The simple copper coin of our fathers il
now almost as useful as the stone hatchct oil
| thcir fnthcrs.
The newspaper. the postage stamp and
| the extra two cents in the seven cent trollcy
fare, which doesn't keep the. trolley com